(A) Complaint made.
(1) Sworn complaint to a court or proper jurisdiction that any one of the following exists:
(a) Any dog at any time has destroyed property or habitually trespasses in a damaging manner on the property or person other than the owner;
(b) Any dog at any time has attacked or bitten a person outside the owner or custodian’s premises;
(c) Any dog is a public nuisance as heretofore defined;
(d) Any dog is vicious or show vicious habits or molests pedestrians or interferes with vehicles in the public streets or highways; or
(e) Any dog is running at large in violation of this chapter.
1. The presiding officer of said court shall issue a summons directed to the owner of said dog commanding him or her to appear before said court to show cause why said dog should not be seized by any police officer, or otherwise disposed of in the manner authorized in this part.
2. Such summons shall be returnable not less than two, nor more than six, days from the date thereof and shall be served at hearing and finding the facts true as complained or, the court may either order the dog killed or order the owner or custodian to keep it confined in a designated place if the owner or custodian violates such order provisions of this chapter.
(2) Costs of the proceeding specified by this section shall be assessed against the owner or custodian of the dog, if the facts in the complaint are found to be true, or to the complaint, if the facts are found to be untrue.
(B) Summary destruction of certain dogs. Whenever an officer has reasonable cause to believe that a particular dog presents a clear and immediate danger to residents of the city because it is infected with rabies (hydrophobia) or because of a clearly demonstrated vicious nature, the officer, after making reasonable attempts to impound such dog, may summarily destroy such dog.