No owner shall abandon an animal, abandonment consisting of leaving an animal for a period in excess of 24 hours without providing for someone to feed, water and check on the animal's condition. In the event that an animal is found so abandoned, the animal may be taken by the Dog Warden, police, or humane officer and impounded in the animal pound or an animal shelter maintained by a humane society and there confined in a humane manner. The animal, if taken from private property, shall be kept for not less than ten days with the same procedure otherwise to be followed as in § 90.65. In the event that an animal is so abandoned, the owner rather than the person, if any, whom he has charged with the animal's care, shall be liable for citation for violation of this section.
(Ord. 79-4, passed 1-22-79) Penalty, see § 90.99