Title 6 - Animals

6.12.010 Destruction of Certain Animals.

Law enforcement officers or Animal Control Officers of the City or anyone having the authority of an Animal Control Officer, as designated by the City Manager or Chief of Police, may kill any dog, cat, domestic animal or warm-blooded animal without notice to the owner thereof whether it bears the tag herein provided for or not, if such dog, cat, domestic animal or warm-blooded animal is deemed by said officer to be a vicious animal, or injured severely with no apparent chance of survival, or in such pain as to warrant humane destruction. The remains of any such animal so destroyed shall be preserved by such officers to permit a test to be conducted for rabies.

(History: Ord. DAC-2771 §6, 2009; DAC-697 §12, 72)

Effective on: 1/1/1901