§ 4-10. Diseased and injured animals.

(a)

No diseased or sickly horse, cow, hog, dog, cat, or other animal nor any that has been exposed to any disease that is contagious among such animals shall be brought into the city unless under veterinary care.

(b)

Any animal, being in any street or public place within the city, appearing, in the estimation of the animal shelter manager or delegate or any inspector of the county health department, to be injured or diseased and past recovery for any useful purpose, and not being attended and properly cared for by the owner or some proper person to have charge thereof for the owner, and not having been removed to some private premises or to some place designated by such officer or inspector within one (1) hour after being found or left in such condition, may be deprived of life by such officer or as he may direct.

(c)

No person, other than inspectors or officers of the county health department or law enforcement officers, or persons authorized by contract or otherwise, shall in any way interfere with the removal of such dead, sick, or injured animal in such street or place. No person shall skin or wound such animal in any street or public place, unless to terminate its life as herein authorized; except that the owner or person having control of such animal may terminate the life thereof in the presence and by the consent of a law enforcement officer, or an inspector of the county health department or the animal shelter manager or delegate.

(Ord. No. 96-27, § 1, 9-17-96)