(A) Anyone having knowledge or reason to believe that any animal in the city has bitten a person shall report within 24 hours, so far as is known, the name and address of the owner and circumstances of the animal. The report concerning bites shall be made to the Humane Officer or Police Department.
(B) (1) Whenever any domesticated animal has bitten a person, it shall be confined in a place as the Humane Officer or Police Department may direct and for the period of observation as may be necessary unless the animal is too vicious and dangerous to be impounded safely, in which case it may be killed and its head shipped to the County Animal Control for rabies examination.
(2) Whenever a wild animal has bitten a person, it shall be killed, avoiding damage to the head (brain) area, and shipped to County Animal Control under refrigeration, but not frozen, for rabies examination.
(Ord. 1153, passed 8-30-1989; Am. Ord. 1216, passed 3-2-1993)