(A) In the interest of public health, safety, and the general welfare in regulating or prohibiting the keeping or running at large of any animal and preventing violations of this chapter, any person keeping any animal in the city by so doing does thereby authorize the Animal Control Officer or city police to enter, without warrant, upon any private property (but not within the residential structure) he or she owns or controls where the animal is to be found for the purpose of enforcement of this chapter and to seize the animal from the private property to abate ordinance violations. Prior to entering upon the private property, the Animal Control Officer or city police officer must first determine that there is probable cause to enter upon the premises and the violation must be in plain view of the officer. Any animal seized pursuant to this section shall immediately be transported to and confined at the city Pound for disposition under the terms of this chapter.
(B) Whenever any Animal Control Officer or police officer shall observe a violation of this section and seize an animal pursuant to this section, he or she shall immediately issue an animal control citation to the owner of the animal requiring the owner to appear before the County Court on or before the date specified on the citation for hearing on the matter.
(Prior Code, § 6-307) (Ord. 1769, passed 2-4-1985)