1.
The Board of Commissioners is hereby authorized to establish a Municipal
Pound, under the jurisdiction of the Chief of Police or the Animal
Control Officer who shall provide proper sustenance for all animals
impounded and shall treat them in a humane manner.
1.
It shall be the duty of the Animal Control (or any other designated
officer or employee of the city) to take into custody and impound
any animal running at large in violation of the provisions of this
Chapter.
2.
The Animal Control Officer may also proceed to impound any animal
that is barking, howling, or otherwise disturbs the peace and quiet
of any person or damages any public or private property.
3.
The Animal Control Officer may immediately capture and impound any
animal or animals which are kept, owned, possessed or harbored in
violation of any of the terms and provisions of this Code.
4.
Any person appearing at the Municipal Pound who shall satisfy the
keeper of the same of the fact of ownership or the rights to the possession
of any animal therein impounded, shall have such animal returned to
him, upon payment of the charges due, as authorized by the provision
of this Chapter.
5.
Animals which are taken into custody as provided in this section,
shall be destroyed in a humane manner by the officer or employee of
the city in charge of such animal or by the Animal Control Officer
after five days of impoundment.
6.
Animals which are taken into custody as provided in this section
that are sick or injured may be destroyed immediately by the officer
or employee of the city in charge of such animal or by the Animal
Control Officer.
7.
Should any licensed institution request of the Animal Control Officer
that animals be delivered to it for scientific or educational research,
such animals may be released to said institutions, provided that no
animal taken into custody shall be delivered to such institution until
such animal has been impounded for at least five days and remains
unclaimed and unredeemed by its owners of any person desiring such
as a pet.
Reference: See generally, Title 4, 1991 O.S., Section 391 et
seq.
No unauthorized person shall break, or attempt to break open
the pound, or take or let out any animal therefrom, or take or attempt
to take from any officer or employee of the city any animal taken
into custody as provided by ordinance, or in any manner interfere
with or hinder such officer or employee in the discharge of his duties
relating to the taking into custody and impounding of animals as provided
in this Chapter.
1.
The fees for impounding and keeping an impounded animal, to be paid
upon redemption, shall be determined by the Board of Commissioners
by motion or resolution.
2.
Any person redeeming an impounded animal shall pay the required fees
to the Police Department and present his receipt therefor to the person
in charge of the pound before the latter releases the animal.
1.
Any person, firm, or corporation who knowingly harbors a vicious animal, as defined by Section 3-1, paragraph 12, of this Chapter, within the limits of the City of Weatherford, which allows in any manner, except as provided, said vicious animal to commit or attempt to commit an unprovoked attack on any person shall be guilty of an offense and subject to the penalty provided for in said offense.
2.
Nothing in paragraph 1 above shall be deemed an offense if the vicious
animal attacks, provoked or unprovoked, any person who is committing
any criminal act inside the area of confinement of said vicious animal.
3.
Any person, firm, or corporation who violates any of the provisions of paragraph 1 of this section shall be fined in a sum as provided in Section 9-31 this Code and/or said vicious animal may be ordered, by the Municipal Judge, destroyed or removed from the limits of the City of Weatherford. Each day upon which a violation of paragraph 1 continues shall be deemed a separate offense.
