As used in this article, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated, unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context:
OWNER
Any person having a right of property in any dog or having custody of any dog, or any person who harbors or permits a dog to remain on or around his or her property.
RUNNING AT LARGE
Being upon any public highway, street, alley, park or any other public land, or upon property of another person other than the owner, and not being accompanied by and under the control of the owner or any other person having custody of said dog.
A Dog Warden may be appointed by the Borough Council to serve during its pleasure. Such Dog Warden, along with the Police Department, shall have concurrent responsibility for the enforcement of this article and of the Dog Law of 1982, (3 P.S. § 459-101 et seq., as hereafter amended, supplemented, modified or reenacted by the General Assembly of Pennsylvania), provided that he shall not have the power to make arrests under this Act of Assembly or any other Act of Assembly or ordinance of the Borough of Manheim.
It shall be unlawful for the owner of any dog or dogs to allow or permit such dog or dogs to run at large in the Borough of Manheim.
It shall be unlawful for the owner or custodian of any dog while traveling on the streets, alleys or public grounds to fail to have the dog on a leash at all times and to prevent the dog from entering upon the property of another without the property owner's consent.
The Dog Warden or any police officer or constable may seize any dog found at large in the Borough of Manheim. Such dogs are to be impounded in a licensed kennel.
The Dog Warden or Police Department that seizes any licensed dog shall notify the owner that the dog is impounded and will be transferred to the Lancaster County Humane League Kennel or to a similar animal protection agency if not claimed within 24 hours of notice of seizure.
Unlicensed dogs or licensed dogs whose owner cannot be contacted at the address and phone listed on the license information shall be transferred to the kennel listed in § 84-6, at the convenience of the Police Department.
Dogs that, in the opinion of any police officer or dog warden, constitute a threat to public health and welfare may be killed by the police or dog warden.
The first two times a dog is seized, the owner shall pay a fine of $15 to the Borough of Manheim as well as reasonable fees for keeping the animal in a kennel as fixed pursuant to a resolution of the Borough Council. Any person allowing a dog to run at large a third time in violation of this article shall, upon conviction thereof, be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than $600 and, in default of payment, to imprisonment for a term not to exceed 30 days.