§ 2-103 SAME; CAPTURE/DESTRUCTION.

   When deemed necessary by law enforcement officers or the Animal Control Officer for the health, safety and welfare of the residents of the city, such officers and/or their agents may:

   (a)   Place a humane trap on public or a requesting resident’s property for the purpose of capturing any animal defined in this chapter as creating a nuisance in the city;

   (b)   Use any tranquilizer guns, humane traps or other suitable devices to subdue and capture any animal that is deemed by the Animal Control Officer, in his or her discretion, to be of a danger to itself or to the public health and safety; or

   (c)   Use firearms or other suitable weapons to destroy any rabid animal, any vicious animal as defined in § 2-115 or any animal creating a nuisance as defined in § 2-111, where such animal is impossible or impractical to catch, capture or tranquilize.

(1987 Code, § 2-103)