If any person, being the owner or keeper of a dog or dogs hereinabove described, shall fail or refuse to abate the nuisance upon order of the Chief of Police within the specified time, the Chief shall cause the dog or dogs in question to be apprehended and impounded in a suitable place, and the owner or keeper shall be notified in writing of the impoundment. If the owner or keeper shall so request, the dog or dogs shall be released to him or her upon his or her execution of a written agreement to comply with the abatement order. If no such request and execution is made by the owner or keeper within five days after written notice, the Chief of Police shall cause the dog or dogs to be destroyed. In the event of impoundment of a dog or dogs, the owner or keeper of which was unknown, the Chief shall cause apprehension and impoundment to be carried out if no one claims the dog within 48 hours after the notice, order and description were posted, and shall cause a notice of impoundment, along with a general description of the dog or dogs, to be posted for five days at the Town Hall; if no request for release of the dog or dogs and execution of agreement to comply with the order of abatement respecting the dog or dogs is made within the five-day period, the Chief shall cause the dog or dogs to be destroyed.
(1979 Code, § 8-2004)