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Code of Ordinance › Chapter 14 — ANIMALS › Article II — ANIMALS

1. (a) Any person who owns, harbors, keeps or has charge of any fowl or animal which attacks, bites, scratches, or otherwise physically injures human beings or other animals without adequate provocation, or which, because of temperament or training, has a known propensity to attack, bite, scratch, or otherwise physically injure human beings or other animals:
   1. (1) Shall confine such animal to a building or secure enclosure; and
   2. (2) Shall, whenever such animal is off the premises on which it is kept, keep such animal securely muzzled and restrained with a chain having a minimum tensile strength of twice the animal's body weight and not more than three
   3. (3) feet in length, or otherwise securely caged.
2. (b) No person shall permit or allow, by failure to exercise due control, any animal to bite or attack, or threaten to bite or attack, a person or domestic animal except in the defense of itself or in defense of a person during the commission of a crime by another.

Any person who shall have in his/her possession an animal which has contracted rabies or which has been subjected to rabies, or which is suspected of having rabies, or which has bitten any person, shall, upon demand of any animal control officer, produce and surrender up such animal to such officer, to be held for observation as provided in this section, or confine the animal to the owner's premises, at the discretion of the officer. It shall be the duty of any person owning or harboring an animal which has been attacked or bitten by another animal showing the symptoms of rabies to immediately notify the police department that such person has such an animal in his/her possession. Whenever an animal has been reported as being rabid, the animal shall be confined for a period of not more than ten days. Secs. 14-83—14-100. - Reserved.

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