(EDITOR’S NOTE: See Section 606.99 for general Code penalty if no specific penalty is provided.)
(a) Any person who violates or fails to comply with provisions of this Chapter 618 shall be fined not more than two hundred dollars ($200.00), except that a person who violates or fails to comply with Section 618.03 (Cruelty to Animals) shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars ($500.00). A separate offense shall be deemed committed each day during or on which a violation or noncompliance occurs or continues.
(b) In addition to any other penalty, the court may order the animal control authority when an animal has been determined to be a dangerous dog to destroy and dispose of such dangerous dog in an expeditious and humane manner.
(c) Any person convicted of a violation of Section 618.19(e) prohibiting the owning or keeping of a dangerous dog shall not own another dangerous dog within ten years after such conviction. The dog which is the subject of the violation shall be neutered as provided in Section 618.19(b) and confined as provided in Section 618.19(f).
(d) If a dangerous dog of an owner with a prior conviction under this chapter or Sections 54-617 to 54-624 R.R.S. Neb. or similar statute or ordinance in another jurisdiction attacks or bites a human being or domestic animal, the owner shall be guilty of a Class IIIA misdemeanor. In addition, the dangerous dog shall be immediately confiscated by an animal control authority, placed in quarantine for the proper length of time, and thereafter destroyed in an expeditious and humane manner.
(Ord. 1606. Passed 5-27-08; Ord. 1657. Passed 5-10-11.)