(a) Animals and fowl found at large in the City may be taken up by any police officer or animal control officer and placed in the City pound. If the animal is licensed and wears a registration tag, the police or animal control officer shall notify the registered owner to appear at the Police Department and receive a citation for violation of Section 505.01. The owner may then remove the animal from the pound on payment to the City of a pound fee of fifteen dollars ($15.00) for impounding and four dollars ($4.00) for each day or fraction thereof that the animal is in the pound for care and feeding. He shall nevertheless appear and answer the citation in court. If the animal is not claimed within a reasonable time, it shall be turned over to the County humane society for care and disposition. All animals which are not licensed, or whose owners cannot be readily ascertained, may be turned over at once to the County humane society to be disposed of as provided in its regulations. When an owner acknowledges ownership of an unlicensed animal, whether turned over to the County humane society or not, he shall receive a citation as provided above and shall answer before the court. If he claims the animal, he shall pay the lawful license fee if any, the City pound charges provided above, and any fees or charges which may be lawfully imposed by the County humane society.
(Ord. 18-2006. Passed 5-1-06.)
(Ord. 18-2006. Passed 5-1-06.)
(b) No person shall interfere with, break open, destroy or injure a pound erected by authority of law, or set at liberty any animal impounded therein.
(c) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.
(Ord. 94-73. Passed 12-10-73.)