(a) Any police officer, animal control officer, or other person designated by the manager of the Animal Services Division may impound any stray animal found running at large within the city limits, and may proceed beyond the city limits in exigent circumstances as authorized by law, and may impound any animal being kept in violation of this chapter; any animal which is diseased and endangers the health of person or another animal; any animal which has bitten a human or which has acted in a fierce or vicious manner as described in ordinance; destroy humanely, an animal posing an imminent danger to persons or property under circumstances of emergency, or an animal that has bitten or scratched a person; impound for treatment or, in the alternative, humanely destroy an animal that is injured to a degree presenting little or no likelihood of recovery.
(b) Immediately upon the expiration of 72 hours after an animal is first impounded by the city, any and all owners of the animal are divested of ownership of the animal and ownership of the animal is vested in the City of Longview.
(Ord. No. 3728, 11-11-10; Ord. No. 4054, § 5, 5-24-16)