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 Justin
 Code of Ordinances
 Chapter 8. ANIMALS

  § 8-9. Vicious animals.  

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  • (a)

    Any vicious animal found running at large and endangering the safety of persons and property may be destroyed by the local animal control officer in the interest of public safety if such danger is imminent and a real or apparent necessity exists to destroy such vicious animal.

    (b)

    The animal control officer may order any owner or person having care, custody or control of any vicious animal to take such animal permanently from the city. This order may be appealed in writing within five days of receipt of the order to the judge of the municipal court. The judge of the municipal court may uphold, reverse or modify the order and may stipulate restrictions on the animal as a condition to allow the animal to remain in the city. If the judge of the municipal court upholds the order, the owner or person having care, control or custody shall not bring the animal back inside the city limits. If any animal, the subject of an appeal under this section, has been placed in quarantine, such quarantine shall continue until the appeal, as provided herein, has been exhausted.

    (c)

    If the owner or person who has care, custody or control of a vicious animal fails to remove such animal as provided for in subsections (a) and (b) of this section, such animal may be impounded and humanely euthanized.

    (d)

    The owner or person having care, custody or control of a vicious or wild animal must report the disposition and relocation of such animal to the local animal control officer in writing, within ten days after the expiration date for removal of such animal from the city. Each day such information is not provided shall constitute a separate offense.

    (e)

    The local animal control officer shall be authorized to obtain a search and seizure warrant if there is probable cause to believe that an animal ordered removed from the city for being vicious has not been so removed, or in any other violation in which the state code of criminal procedure authorizes the issuance of search warrants.

(Code 1994, art. 2.900; Ord. No. 389, § 1, 6-13-2005)