(A) Any person who keeps, feeds, harbors or allows to stay about any premises occupied or controlled by him within the city, any vicious, or ferocious animal, and allows such animal to be at large or insecurely confined is guilty of a misdemeanor. When animals are used for guarding a premises, such premises shall be posted.
(B) Any animal which bites and causes bodily injury to any person, not its owner, and the person at the time being engaged in lawful conduct, is hereby declared to be vicious or ferocious.
(C) Any animal found to be at large which bites and causes bodily injury to any person not its owner and the person at the time being engaged in lawful conduct, may be ordered destroyed or removed from the city. Any animal which bites and causes serious bodily injury to any person not its owner and the person at the time being engaged in lawful conduct may be ordered destroyed or removed from the city.
(D) Any animal having bitten and caused bodily injury to more than one person is hereby declared vicious and shall be ordered destroyed or removed from the city. The cost of destroying the animal shall be borne by the owner or keeper of such animal and such cost shall not be more than fifty dollars ($50.00). (Ord. 1676, 3-6-2000)