Title 6 ANIMALS
Chapter 6.04 ANIMAL CARE AND CONTROL REGULATIONS
6.04.120 Injured or dead animals.
A. Any person who strikes a pet or domestic animal with a motor vehicle or
bicycle and injures or kills the animal must immediately attempt to notify the
owner of said animal of the injury or death. If the owner cannot be found, the
person who struck the animal shall immediately notify animal care and control.
Animal care and control shall then take the necessary steps to provide for the
proper treatment or disposal of the animal.
B. The owner of any animal,
which is killed or dies, shall immediately provide for its burial or cremation
when the death and the location of the carcass are known. If the owner fails to
do so within twelve (12) hours, the animal control officer shall arrange for the
disposal, and the owner shall be required to pay a fine of two hundred dollars
($200.00). In the case of livestock or other large animals, the minimum fine
shall be five hundred dollars ($500.00). (Ord. 03-O-01 § 12,
2003)
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