§ 10-51. Keeping or running at large; vicious animals; impounding.

It shall be unlawful for any animal of the equine species, cow, calf, bull, boar, swine, goat, other livestock, fowl, or dangerous and vicious animal of any species to be stabled, kept, or housed in the corporate limits or to be allowed or permitted to run in or on any of the public thoroughfares, squares, or enclosed lands, or other public lots of the city, and it shall be the duty of persons designated to enforce this chapter on information or view to cause the same to be impounded; nor shall such animal be restored to the owner until such owner shall pay as hereafter provided for each and every such animal and the cost of impounding, provided that before impounding any mischievous animal, whose owner may be known to the impounding officer, the impounding officer shall notify such owner to keep such animal confined, and if thereafter such animal is found upon the thoroughfares, squares, unenclosed land or lots at large, the animal shall be impounded without notice, as provided in this section.

(Code 1980, § 4-66)