HomeMy WebLinkAbout02557Section 19. Trespassing Animal:
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It shall be unlawful to suffer or
permit any animal to trespass on private property so as to damage or
destroy any property or thing of value and same is hereby declared to
be a nuisance and such animal may be impounded as such. Whenever it
shall be affirmed in writting by three (3) or more persons having
separate residences, or regularly employed in the neighborhood that
any animal is a habitual nuisance by reason of running at large,
trespassing, howling, barking, or other noise, or damage to property,
being vicious, or by its actions potentially vicious or in any other
way or manner causing undue annoyance, the poundmaster, if he finds
such nuisance to exist in fact, shall serve notice upon the owner
or custodian of such animal, that such nuisance must be abated within
twenty-four hours, after which the poundmaster shall decide whether
such nuisance has been abated and if not, any such animal may be
impounded. The owner or person in possession or care of such animal
found to be nuisance shall be deemed guilty of maintaining a nuisance.
Section 20. In any case where a group of dogs may be found
running in a pack of three or more in number, and it shall appear
that said dogs are uncontrolled and running at large in such manner
as to endanger persons or animals, the poundmaster, or his deputy,
or any police officer of the city, may use all such force as may be
necessary to disperse and eliminate such running in a pack, without
regard to whether any actual damage has been done or is in progress
of being done by such pack.