Pursuant to police powers, the Chief of Police, together with
the Animal Control Officer, the various lieutenants and patrolmen
and their delegates by designation through a contract of employment
shall be the enforcement officers under this article, all under the
direct supervision of the Chief of Police. The City may also utilize
any appropriate departments within the Westmoreland County government
to enforce these articles.
No owner, custodian or keeper of any dog shall allow or permit
any such dog to deposit excrement upon the streets, alleys or public
grounds in the City unless such owner, custodian or keeper immediately
removes the excrement and disposes of it in a sanitary manner. Failure
to do so will result in a $100 fine for every instance.
It shall be unlawful for any person to administer, or cause
to be administered, poison of any sort whatsoever to any dog, or to
neglect, or in any manner to mistreat, injure, maim, or destroy except
as specifically authorized in this article, or in any manner to attempt
to mistreat, injure, maim, or destroy a dog, or to place any poison,
poisoned food or poisoned bait where the same is accessible to any
dog. This section shall not be interpreted to prohibit an act of a
licensed veterinarian in causing a dog's death in a humane manner
with the approval of the owner of the dog.
Any conflicts or omissions herein shall be superseded by Act
119 of 2008 of he Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; otherwise known as
the Pennsylvania "Dog Law" and as amended from time to time.
The owner, keeper or harborer of any dog that in any manner
injures or destroys any real or personal property of any description
belonging to another shall be in violation of this article. If upon
the trial of any offense under in this section it shall appear to
the Magisterial District Judge that the person be guilty as charged
in said complaint or citation, said judge may, in addition to the
usual judgment of conviction, order the person so offending to make
restitution to the party injured in an amount equal to the value of
the property so injured or destroyed.