It shall be the duty of the owner or of any person responsible for the care at the time of its death of any animal dying within the city limits, forthwith, or with all reasonable dispatch, and before such animal becomes offensive from decomposition, to remove the same in accordance with the garbage ordinance and under the direction of the director of public works and any owner or person responsible for the care of such animal at the time of its death, who shall fail, neglect, or refuse to remove the same as aforesaid after two (2) hours' reasonable notice, or who shall throw or leave any dead animal in any public way or grounds, or on any private grounds, or in any watercourse, or in any pit or vault unburied, shall be deemed guilty of having maintained a public nuisance. The reasonable notice and time to respond to the provisions of this chapter are for the purposes of this section reduced to two (2) hours. (Ord. 712, 5-2-1983)