The Mayor and Council shall appoint a Certified Animal Control Officer or contract for such services with another municipality, as required, whose duties shall be those provided for by state statute and this chapter. The Certified Animal Control Officer shall have all powers provided for by law, including but not limited to powers to investigate and sign complaints, arrest violators or otherwise act as an officer for detection, apprehension and arrest of offenders against the animal control, animal welfare or any animal cruelty laws of the state and ordinances in the Borough, provided that the Officer has completed the training required by law.
A. 
Impounding of domestic animals.
(1) 
The Animal Control Officer or other persons designated by the Mayor and Council shall take into custody and impound or cause to be taken into custody and impounded and thereafter destroyed or offered for adoption as hereinafter provided in this section:
(a) 
Any dog which the official has reason to believe is a stray animal.
(b) 
Any dog or cat off the premises of the owner or of the person keeping or harboring said dog or cat without a current registration tag on his collar.
(c) 
Any domestic animal upon the public streets or in any public place not in compliance with this chapter.
(d) 
Any domestic animal or other animal that is suspected to be rabid.
(e) 
Any dog declared vicious.
(f) 
Any dog or other animal off the premises of the owner reported to, or observed by, a certified Animal Control Officer to be ill, injured or creating a threat to public health, safety or welfare, or otherwise interfering with the enjoyment of property.
(2) 
If any domestic animal so seized wears a collar or harness having inscribed thereon or attached thereto the name and address of any person or a registration tag, or the owner or the person keeping or harboring the domestic animal is known, the Animal Control Officer shall forthwith serve on the person a notice, in writing, stating that the domestic animal has been seized and will be liable to be offered for adoption or destroyed if not claimed within seven days after the service of the notice.
(3) 
A notice under this Subsection A(3) of this section may be served either by delivering it to the person on whom it is to be served or by leaving it at the person's usual or last known place of abode or at the address given on the collar, or by forwarding it by mail in a prepaid letter addressed to that person at his usual or last known place of abode or to the address given on the collar.
(4) 
A domestic animal which shall bite any person and/or be suspected to be rabid shall be examined by a veterinarian within 24 hours after impoundment for the purpose of determining if such domestic animal is affected by any disease and shall thereafter be quarantined for such a period of time that the veterinarian shall determine as appropriate under the circumstances. The owner shall be required to pay for all testing and quarantine expenses.
B. 
Seizure of domestic animals; entry upon premises. Any officer or agent authorized to perform any duty under this article is hereby authorized to go upon any premises to seize for impounding any domestic animal(s) which he may lawfully seize and impound when such officer is in immediate pursuit of such animal(s), except upon the premises of the owner of the animal(s) if the said owner is present and forbids the same.