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Shelter and disposed of according to standard Animal <br />Shelter procedures. <br />B. In lieu of impoundment, the Animal Control Director is <br />authorized to issue a confinement order to the animal owner <br />or keeper that would require the owner or keeper to <br />confine a vicious animal or an animal otherwise violating <br />provisions of the ordinance. Failure to thus confine the <br />animal would constitute a further violation of the <br />ordinance, subjecting the owner to appropriate criminal or <br />civil penalties. <br />Section XIV - Handling of Stray Animals. It shall be unlawful <br />for any person, without the consent of the owner or keeper, <br />knowingly and intentionally to harbor, feed, keep in possession <br />by confinement or otherwise any animal that does not belong to <br />him, unless he has, within seventy-two (72) hours from the time <br />such animal came into his possession, notified an Animal Control <br />Officer or the Animal Shelter. <br />A. Any animal at large may in a humane manner be seized, <br />impounded, and confined in the Animal Shelter and thereafter <br />adopted out or disposed of pursuant to procedures of the <br />Animal Shelter and applicable State law. <br />B. Impoundment of such an animal shall not relieve the owner or <br />keeper thereof from any penalty which may be imposed for <br />violation of this ordinance. <br />C. Any animal seized and impounded that is badly wounded or <br />diseased and has no identification, may be destroyed <br />pursuant to procedures of the Animal Shelter. If the animal <br />has rabies or is suspected of having rabies, the body shall <br />be disposed of in accordance with applicable state <br />regulations. If the animal has identification, the Animal <br />Shelter shall attempt expeditiously to notify the owner or <br />keeper before euthanizing such animal; in any event, and <br />except as may be otherwise provided by law, the Animal <br />Shelter and Animal Control Program shall have no liability <br />for euthanizing wounded or diseased animals when such action <br />is taken upon the advice or recommendation of a veterinarian <br />who has been advised of the animal's condition. <br />Amended: Section XV - Public Nuisance. It shall be unlawful for an owner <br />1/1/97 or keeper to permit an animal or animals to create a public <br />nuisance, or to maintain a public nuisance created by an animal <br />or animals. Compliance shall be required as follows: <br />3:\Cledcs\Records\Ordinances\Mnn al Ordman ces\ANIMORD.D OCLast panted 7/23/20092:42:00 PM 14 <br />