(a) No dogs shall be allowed in a park or open space lands, or portion thereof, where prohibited by park regulations and where signs prohibiting dogs are posted.
(b) It is unlawful to permit or allow a dog to pursue any undomesticated mammal or bird in any city park or open space lands. Palo Alto police officers, animal control officers and park rangers may capture or destroy a dog inflicting injury or threatening to inflict injury upon any undomesticated mammal or bird within city parks or open space lands. Owners of dogs with identification that have been captured or destroyed pursuant to this section shall be notified within seventy-two hours after capture or destruction. No criminal or civil liability shall accrue to any city employee as a result of enforcement of this section.
(Ord. 4368 § 2 (part), 1996)