Any person found guilty of violating the requirements of § 90.62 shall be assessed, fined, and the animal disposed of as follows.
(A) Any dangerous dog that is not confined or registered pursuant to § 90.62 shall be impounded by a humane officer or police officer in accordance with the provisions of § 90.66. Pending the adjudication of a second offense under this section and § 90.99(D)(1), the redemption provision of § 90.66 is suspended. The Municipal Court Judge shall have no authority to suspend the fine or any portion thereof;
(B) Any dangerous dog which, without provocation, attacks, assaults, wounds, bites, or otherwise injures, or assists in injuring, a human being shall be impounded by a humane officer or a police officer in accordance with the provisions of § 90.66. The Municipal Court Judge shall have no authority to suspend the fine related to this violation, as defined in § 90.99(D)(2), or any portion thereof;
(C) Any dangerous dog which, without provocation, attacks, assaults, wounds, bites, or otherwise injures or assists in injuring any domestic animal shall be impounded by a humane officer or a police officer in accordance with the provisions of § 90.66. The Municipal Court Judge shall have no authority to suspend the fine related to this violation, as defined in § 90.99(D)(3), or any portion thereof.
(D) Upon conviction under divisions (B) and (C) above, the Municipal Court Judge shall order that the owner be deemed to have forfeited all interest in the dog and that the dog be humanely euthanized; provided, upon presentation of evidence satisfactory to the Municipal Court Judge that the dangerous dog should not be euthanized in this case, then such dog may be released to the custody of the owner upon the payment of the fees and expenses as set forth in § 90.66 for redemption of the dog by the owner.
(Ord. passed 11-2-2020) Penalty, see § 90.99