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§ 93.31 ENFORCEMENT.
   (A)   When the owner of any domestic or hybrid animal or other animal fails or refuses to comply with §§ 93.27 or 93.28 of this chapter, the rabies control authority shall obtain an order for seizure of the animal pursuant to Neb. RS Chapter 29, Article 8.
(Neb. RS 71-4410)
   (B)   In the village, all ordinances, codes or rules and regulations concerning the control of rabies or the vaccination of domestic or hybrid animals against rabies shall be enforced by the village health and law enforcement officials or those other officers with regulatory authority as specified by the Board of Trustees.
(Neb. RS 71-4412)
DOGS
§ 93.45 LICENSE AND TAX REQUIRED; EXEMPTION; TAGS.
   (A)   Any owner of a dog over the age of six months within the village shall, within 30 days after acquisition of the dog, acquire a license for the dog annually by or before the May 1 of each year. Licenses shall be issued by the Village Clerk/Treasurer upon payment of a license tax in the amount established by the Board of Trustees, plus the $1.25 fee required under Neb. RS 54-603(3). It shall be unlawful for the owner of a dog to wrongfully and knowingly license an unspayed female dog as a male or spayed female dog if the Board has established different license taxes for such dogs.
   (B)   (1)   The tax shall be delinquent from and after May 10.
      (2)   The owner of any dog brought into or harbored within the corporate limits subsequent to May 1 of any year shall be liable for payment of the dog tax and such tax shall be delinquent if not paid within ten days thereafter.
      (3)   The license shall not be transferable and no refund will be allowed in case of death, sale or other disposition of the licensed dog.
   (C)   The owner shall state, at the time the application is made and upon printed forms provided for such purpose, his or her name and address and the name, breed, color and sex of each dog owned by him or her. A certificate of rabies vaccination, effective for the ensuing year of the license, shall be presented when application for a license is made and no license or tag shall be issued until the certificate is shown.
   (D)   Every service animal shall be licensed as required by this section, but no license tax shall be charged. Upon the retirement or discontinuance of the animal as a service animal, the owner of the animal shall be liable for the payment of the required license tax.
(Neb. RS 54-603)
   (E)   (1)   Upon the payment of the license tax, the Clerk/Treasurer shall issue to the owner of the dog a license certificate and a metallic tag, which shall be valid until April 30 following such licensing. The Clerk/Treasurer shall issue tags of a suitable design that are different in appearance each year.
      (2)   The metallic tag and the rabies tag shall be properly attached to the collar or harness of the dog. It shall be unlawful for the owner of any dog to permit or allow such dog to wear any licensing identification other than the metallic tag issued by the Clerk/Treasurer.
      (3)   If a license tag is lost, upon satisfactory evidence that the original tag was issued in accordance with the provisions of this section, the Clerk/Treasurer shall issue a duplicate or new tag for the balance of the year for which the license tax has been paid and shall charge and collect a fee established by the Board of Trustees for each duplicate or new tag so issued.
   (F)   All license taxes, fees and other collections shall be credited to the General Fund of the village, except as otherwise provided by Neb. RS 54-603.
Penalty, see § 93.99
Statutory reference:
   Authority to impose license tax, require rabies certificate and destroy unlicensed dogs, see Neb. RS 17-526, 54-603 and 71-4412
§ 93.46 COLLAR OR HARNESS REQUIRED.
   (A)   It shall be the duty of every owner of a dog to securely place upon the neck of the dog a good and sufficient collar with a metallic plate thereon. The plate shall be plainly inscribed with the name of the owner.
(Neb. RS 54-605)
   (B)   The owner of a dog may use a harness instead of a collar as long as the harness meets all other requirements of division (A) above.
Penalty, see § 93.99 
§ 93.47 REMOVAL OF COLLAR, HARNESS OR TAGS.
   It shall be unlawful for any person to remove or cause to be removed, the collar, harness, metallic license tag or rabies tag from any dog without the consent of the owner of the dog.
Penalty, see § 93.99
§ 93.48 LIABILITY OF OWNER.
   (A)   It shall be unlawful for the owner to allow a dog to injure or destroy any real or personal property of any description belonging to another person.
   (B)   The owner of the dog, in addition to the usual judgment upon conviction, may be made to be liable to the person injured in an amount equal to the value of the damage sustained.
Penalty, see § 93.99
Statutory reference:
   Authority to guard against injuries or annoyances, see Neb. RS 17-526
   Statutory liability for damages, see Neb. RS 54-601, 54-602 and 54-606
§ 93.49 BARKING AND CHASING; COMPLAINTS.
   (A)   It shall be unlawful for the owner to allow a dog to annoy or disturb any neighborhood or person by loud, continued or frequent barking, howling or yelping or to habitually bark at or chase pedestrians, drivers or owners of horses or vehicles while they are on any public sidewalks, streets or alleys in the village.
   (B)   Upon the written complaint of two or more affected persons from different households, filed within any 30-day period with the Village Clerk/Treasurer or animal control officer, that any dog owned by the person named in the complaint is an annoyance or disturbance or otherwise violates the provisions of this section, the village police or animal control officer shall investigate the complaint and, if in his or her opinion the situation warrants, notify the owner to silence and restrain the dog.
   (C)   The provisions of this section shall not be construed to apply to any village animal shelter.
Penalty, see § 93.99
Statutory reference:
   Authority to guard against annoyances, see Neb. RS 17-526
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