(A) It shall be unlawful for the animal control officer, the officer’s assistants or the entity with whom the city has contracted with for animal sheltering services, to destroy, or cause or permit to be destroyed, any animal until the expiration of the impounding time limit of 72 hours, except that the officer may, when an animal so impounded has been examined by a duly licensed veterinarian and found by the veterinarian to be suffering from an injury or disease from which, in the veterinarian’s judgment, recovery is doubtful, destroy the animal in a humane manner, provided that the observation requirements of this chapter have been complied with.
(B) It shall further be unlawful for any person to destroy or kill, or cause or permit to be destroyed or killed, any animal which has bitten any human or animal until the animal can be examined by a duly licensed veterinarian for the purpose of determining whether or not the animal has an infectious disease and until observation requirements as set forth in § 90.146 of this code have been complied with.
(C) If any animal within the city has been bitten by a known rabid animal, then the animal that has been bitten shall be immediately destroyed in a humane manner by the owner thereof or the animal control officer, the officer’s assistants, or the entity with whom the city has contracted with for animal sheltering services, unless the owner causes the animal to be placed in strict isolation in a place prescribed by a licensed veterinarian and causes the animal to be treated as recommended by the licensed veterinarian, or unless the animal has been properly inoculated for rabies as provided in this chapter.
(Prior Code, § 90.130) (Ord. 97-16, passed 8-4-1997) Penalty, see § 90.999