(a) Any dog, licensed or unlicensed, that the Enforcement Officer has, in the reasonable exercise of judgment, determined to be vicious, shall be destroyed by the Enforcement Officer. If a vicious dog poses an imminent threat of harm to a person or property, the dog may be destroyed to prevent such harm from occurring without notice to the owner. In other cases, the Enforcement Officer will, if the owner can be identified, give the owner of the dog notice and an opportunity to be heard proper to destruction of the dog.
(b) No person may own, possess, or keep a vicious dog in the city.
(Am. Ord. 02-01, passed 2-12-02)