(a) The Municipal Court, after a hearing, may issue an order for the owner or custodian to remove any dangerous animal from the City, or in the alternative may impose reasonable terms, conditions and restrictions for the training, handling and maintenance of such dangerous animal, which terms, conditions and restrictions the Court determines are necessary to protect the public health, safety and welfare, including, but not limited to:
(1) Keeping the animal, while on the premises of its owner or custodian, confined indoors or in a securely enclosed pen or dog run area which shall have sides six feet high and/or a secure top, and which shall have a concrete pad secured to its sides. Such dog run shall be locked at all times.
(2) Keeping the animal, while off the premises of its owner or custodian, securely muzzled, leashed with a chain not longer than three feet and having tensile strength of not less than 300 pounds, and under the control of a person eighteen years of age or older who is physically capable of restraining the animal;
(3) Immediately informing, by posting, any government or utility company employee and anyone else who comes on the property with implied consent or peaceably and lawfully, of the animal's dangerousness and informing applicable public agencies again if the animal is moved to another location; and
(4) Obtaining liability insurance with an insurer authorized to write liability insurance in the State providing coverage for each occurrence, subject to a limit, exclusive of interest and costs, of not less than one hundred thousand dollars ($100, 000) because of damage or bodily injury to or death of a human being caused by the animal.
(b) If the owner or custodian of the dangerous animal files a notice of appeal, the order of the Court to remove the dangerous animal from the City or to impose reasonable terms, conditions and restrictions which the Court deems are necessary to protect the public health, safety and welfare shall not he stayed pending the appeal.
(c) If the owner or custodian of an impounded or confined dangerous animal wishes to reclaim and remove it from the City, the Court shall release it, provided that the animal is taken to its new location outside the City immediately and directly upon its release. The person to whom such animal is released shall inform the City of the new location of such animal. No person to who such animal is released shall fail to remove the animal immediately and directly from the City.
(Ord. 1988-53. Passed 11-14-88.)