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The City Administrator or designee shall procure a sufficient number of metallic tags for delivery of one such tag to the person paying the license fee. It shall be the responsibility of the owner of the dog for which the tag was obtained to permanently attach the tag to the collar of the dog in a manner that the tag may be readily seen. The tag is not transferrable to any other dog or to a new owner of the dog. If a tag is lost or stolen, the owner may obtain a new tag by surrendering the license receipt for the first tag and by paying an additional fee as duly set by the City Council from time to time.
(Prior Code, § 6-2-17)
The Animal Control Officer shall seize and impound any dogs found in the city without the tag provided for by this subchapter or dogs running at large. To enforce this subchapter, the Animal Control Officer may enter upon any private premises in pursuit of a dog running at large, in accordance with § 10.20. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to interfere with the Animal Control Officer engaged in taking a dog hereunder for impounding or to refuse to surrender a dog to the Animal Control Officer for confinement as required.
(Prior Code, § 6-2-18) Penalty, see § 90.999
(A) The Animal Control Officer may seize or impound any dog found astray on public property or claimed to be astray by the owner of the premises upon which the animal may be found, provided that the owner of the premises demands the seizure or impoundment and agrees in writing to indemnify and hold harmless the city from any claim for damages by the owner of the dog.
(B) Disposition of the impounded stray shall thereafter be pursuant to the provisions as found in this chapter.
(Prior Code, § 6-2-19)
(A) Any dog or other animal displaying symptoms of being rabid may be seized at any place or time and shall be confined in the city dog pound or other appropriate place designated for the purpose by the City Council from time to time at the expense of the owner until found to be free from rabies.
(B) If any dog or other animal appears to be diseased, vicious, dangerous, rabid, or has been exposed to rabies, and the dog or other animal cannot be taken up and impounded without serious risk, the dog or other animal my be killed if reasonably necessary for the safety of any person or persons.
(C) When any dog or other animal has bitten any person wherein the skin has been punctured or the services of a doctor are required, a report of the incident shall be made to the Wright County Sheriff’s office and Animal Control Officer by the owner or custodian of the biting dog or animal or the person bitten, or his or her parent or guardian, within 24 hours of the bite.
(Prior Code, § 6-2-20)
(A) The city, upon the impounding of any dog or other animal, may condition redemption of the dog from impounding upon payment of the required impounding fee as duly set by the City Council from time to time, plus the cost of boarding for each day of said dog or other animal that has been confined in the pound, together with the payment for a current license for the dog if no current license has been issued.
(B) If at the end of six days after the impounding the dog or other animal has not been redeemed, it may be sold at private sale, or the keeper of the pound may dispose of the dog or other animal in a humane manner or pursuant to the terms of M.S. § 346.37, as it may be amended from time to time.
(Prior Code, § 6-2-21)
No person shall keep, own, harbor, or otherwise possess within the city an animal which is a public nuisance animal or vicious animal.
(Prior Code, § 6-2-22) Penalty, see § 90.999
It shall be unlawful for any person to own, keep, have in possession, or harbor any canine which howls, yelps, or barks to the reasonable annoyance of another person or persons. Any person violating this section who, upon first requested by an Animal Control Officer or any duly authorized assistant to stop or prevent the annoyance and refuses to comply with the request, will be issued a citation and, if the officer deems it necessary to stop the annoyance, may have the canine taken to the city animal pound. Any canine placed in the pound may be reclaimed by the owner upon payment of the fee prescribed. If not reclaimed, it may be disposed of in the proper manner.
(Prior Code, § 6-2-23) Penalty, see § 90.999
(A)
The owner of any animal, or any person having the custody or control of any animal, shall be responsible for cleaning up any feces of the animal and disposing of the feces in a sanitary manner. More than six piles of feces in the yard may result in a violation tag being issued.
(B) It is unlawful for any person owning, keeping, or harboring an animal to cause or permit the animal to be on property, public or private, not owned or possessed by the person without having in his or her immediate possession a device for the removal of feces and depository for the transmission of excrement to a proper receptacle located on the property owned or possessed by the person.
(C) It is unlawful for any person in control of, causing, or permitting any animal to be on any property, public or private, not owned or possessed by the person, to fail to remove feces left by the animal to a proper receptacle located on property owned or possessed by the person. The provisions of this section shall not apply to service dogs or dogs used for police activity.
(D) Any Animal Control Officer or any duly authorized officer or agent authorized by the City Administrator may issue citations.
(Prior Code, § 6-2-24) (Ord. 789, passed 10-10-2022)
Penalty, see § 90.999
(A) Adoption by reference of state law and county ordinance. The provisions of M.S. Ch. 347 (§§ 347.50 through 347.65), as it may be amended from time to time, and county Ord. 10-01, as they may be amended from time to time, are hereby adopted by reference as fully as if set out herein, and shall be administered and enforced by the city’s Animal Control Officer and Wright County Sheriff’s office and designated pursuant to that law and ordinance.
(B) Conflict of laws. When any provisions of this subchapter, county ordinance, or state laws applicable to dangerous or potentially dangerous dogs are in conflict, the provisions that impose the greater restrictions or protections shall apply.
(Prior Code, § 6-2-25) (Ord. 511, passed 4-12-2010)
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