(A) Animal Services Coordinator. The Animal Services Coordinator must keep a full, true and correct record of all animals impounded, the date of the impoundment, and the date of release, discharge or disposal. This documentation must be available for public inspection. The police chief may promulgate appropriate regulations for public viewing of impounded animals.
(B) Care of animals and fowl. The Animal Services Coordinator must provide the necessary subsistence and must properly care for all impounded animals.
(C) Payment of fees. The Animal Services Coordinator will collect a fee from the owners of impounded animals set by City Council resolution. When any redemption is made under this chapter, in addition to paying any impounding and maintenance fee or costs incurred by reason of impounding any animal impounded under this chapter, there must also be paid the amount of any license fee, which must be due or payable on such animal under this title or any other section of this code or ordinance of the city, in case a current license for the animal is not in existence at the time.
(D) Damage payment. When any redemption is made under this chapter, in addition to paying any impounding fee or costs incurred by reason of impounding any animal or fowl, there must also be paid reasonable demands for actual damage done by any animal or fowl running at large. The damages required to be paid by this subsection must be paid to the person whose property was damaged.
(E) Right to reclaim upon payment of charges. The owner or any person entitled to the control of any animal or fowl impounded in the public pound has the right to reclaim the same at any time before the sale or other actual disposal thereof, upon payment to the Animal Services Coordinator of the costs and charges provided for in this chapter.
(F) Disposal, public property. The Animal Services Coordinator will remove and dispose of all dead animals found in or upon any of the public highways, streets, avenues, ways, lanes, alleys, parks, squares, sidewalks or other public places within the city.
(G) Disposal, private property. The Animal Services Coordinator will remove and dispose of any abandoned dead animal found on private property in accordance with the nuisance abatement proceedings of this code.
(Ord. 1224, passed 2-16-10)