Ordinances-1984-125

Commission pursuant to Chapters 109 or 109A of the Iowa Code. SECTION V. Seizure, Impoundment, and Disposition of Dangerous Animals. In the event that a dangerous animal is found at large and unattended on public property, park property, public right-of-way, or the property of someone other than owner, thereby creating a hazard to person or property, such animal, in the discretion of the Johnson County Sheriff's Office, the mayor of Tiffin, or his designee, be destroyed if it cannot be confined or captured. The City of Tiffin shall be under no duty to attempt the confinement or capture of a dangerous animal found at large, not shall it have a duty to notify the owner of such animal prior to its destruction. Upon the complaint of an individual that a person is keeping, sheltering, or harboring a dangerous animal per se upon premises in the City of Tiffin, the Johnson County Sheriff's Office, the mayor of Tiffin, or his designee shall cause the matter to be investigated, and if after investigation, the facts indicate that a person named in the complaint is keeping, sheltering, or harboring a dangerous animal per se, the Johnson County Sheriff's Office, the mayor of Tiffin, or his designee shall immediately seize any such animal. An animal so seized shall be impounded for a period of seven (7) days. If at the end of the impoundment period the individual or entity keeping, sheltering, or harboring such dangerous animal per se has not petitioned the Johnson County District Court seeking return of such dangerous animal per se, the Johnson County Sheriff's Office, the mayor of Tiffin, or his designee shall cause the animal to be disposed of by sale, permanently place such animal with an organization or group allowed under this Ordinance to possess dangerous animals, or destroy such animal in a humane manner. Upon the complaint of any individual that a person is keeping, sheltering, or harboring a dangerous animal other than a dangerous animal per se on premises in the City of Tiffin, the Johnson County Sheriff's Office, the mayor of Tiffin, or his designee shall cause the matter to be investigated, and if after investigation, the facts indicate the person named in the complaint is