(A) The owning, allowing, keeping, selling or harboring of a dangerous dog within the corporate limits of the village is hereby prohibited and unlawful.
(B) Any dangerous dog shall be immediately confiscated by an animal control officer and placed in quarantine, at the owner’s costs, until ordered by the court to either return the dog to the owner or humanely kill it or until the time for impounding has passed. The option of releasing the animal to the owner in lieu of impoundment, as provided in §§ 92.14 and 92.28, shall not be available when the dog or animal is being confiscated and impounded pursuant to this section.
(C) For the purpose of this section, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
DANGEROUS DOG.
(a) Any dog or animal that has:
1. Inflicted severe injury on a human being without provocation on public or private property;
2. Killed a severely mutilated a domestic animal without provocation while off the owner’s property;
3. Been previously found to be potentially dangerous, the owner has received due notice of such determination and the dog aggressively bites, attacks or endangers the safety of humans or domestic animals;
4. Been previously found to be potentially dangerous and the owner having received due notice of such findings, the dog again commits any act that would cause it to be declared a potentially dangerous dog; and/or
5. By any other section in this chapter that causes such animal to be declared a DANGEROUS DOG or DANGEROUS ANIMAL.
(b) Dogs shall not be declared DANGEROUS if the threat, injury or damage was sustained by a person who, at the time was committing a willful trespass or other tort upon the premises occupied by the owner of the dog, or was tormenting, abusing or assaulting the dog, or has in the past been observed or reported to have tormented abused, or assaulted the dog, or was committing or attempting to commit a crime.
SEVERE INJURY. Any physical injury that results in broken bones or disfiguring lacerations requiring multiple sutures or cosmetic surgery, or bites which break the skin and requires medical attention.
(Ord. 657, passed 6-22-2022) Penalty, see § 92.99