A. If the owner or caretaker of a dog, cat or other animal is charged or cited, more than three (3) times in any period of twelve (12) months, with a violation of this chapter that requires a service call by animal control to a specific location, a nuisance is hereby declared to exist due to excessive service calls by animal control that place an undue and inappropriate burden on the taxpayers of the city, and said person shall be charged a nuisance service fee for subsequent responses involving the same person or his or her household. The fee shall be an amount determined from time to time by resolution of the city council. For hourly billing, any fraction of an hour is tabulated as a complete hour.
B. Written notice that a person is a chronic violator of this chapter shall be directed to such person, and such notice is appealable to the city council as set forth in section 5-1-13 of this chapter.
C. For any person whose status as a chronic violator is not overturned on appeal, any subsequent service fees chargeable to such person after the date of initial notice will be assessed against the person's property, as shown by the city's animal licensing or registration records, in the manner of a property tax if the service fees are not paid within thirty (30) days. (Ord. 5204, 3-10-2014; amd. Ord. 5684, 1-17-2023)