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HomeMy Public PortalAboutORD-CC-1977-21" ORDINANCE NO. 21-77 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING MOAB CITY CODE, CHAPTER 4, ANIMALS AND FOWL, SECTIONS 4-15 and 4-32. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF MOAB, UTAH: That Section 4-15. Dogs biting persons three or more times in five years to be excluded from city be, and the same is, hereby amended to read as Follows: "Sec. 4-15 Dogs biting persons without provocation to be excluded from city: Any dog which shall bit9 attack, or attempt to bite one or more persons without provocation is hereby declared a nuisance and shall not be kept within the city. If any such dog shall be found within the city, it shall be impounded and disposed of as an unredeemed dog and the owner shall have no right to redeem such dog." That Section 4-32. Impounding, redemption and disposal of fierce, dangerous, disturbing, etc., dogs, be, and the same is, hereby amended to read as follows: "Sec. 4-32. Impounding, redemption and disposal of fierce, dangerous, disturbing, etc., dogs. Any fierce, dangerous or vicious dog at large in the public ways or public places of the city or upon private premises of any person other than the owner, and any dog which may disturb the quiet of any person or neighborhood by barking, fighting or howling, or which may so conduct itself on private premises as to cause harm thereto , or annoyance to the owner thereof, or which shall bite a person or so injure a person as to cause an abrasion of the skin, is a nuisance, and such dog shall be immediately taken up and impounded in the manner provided in this division. Any such dog may be redeemed only by a person undertaking to control such dog so as to prevent its being a nuisance, and if any such dog shall be impounded three times in any two year period under the provisions of this section such dog shall be disposed of as an unredeemed dog unless the owner shall undertake to keep such dog outside the city. ` "If any fierce, dangerous or vicious dog cannot be safety taken up and impounded, such dog may be slain by any policeman." PASSED by the unanimous vote of all members present of the City Council of the City of Moab, Utah, this 15th day of November, A. D. , 1977. ATTS T: �� ce/- /T.R- tzke, City Recorder APPROVED: /17A 71.A. Ci.--ir".."( " Wm. Dean McDougald,/Mayor