Glenn County Municipal Code Art. IV Diseased, Vicious And Noisome Animals

1. No person owning or having charge of any vicious animal shall permit such animal to be or remain upon any street or other public place in the county.

2. No person owning or having charge of any animal that is infected with any disease transmissible to man or that constitutes a public health hazard shall knowingly permit such animal to be or remain within the county other than at an approved veterinary hospital.

3. The animal control officer shall seize any animal he reasonably believes to be diseased, vicious or which is alleged to have bitten any person. He shall keep such animal in a safe place long enough to observe, examine and determine whether it is diseased or vicious so as to be a menace to public health or safety.

4. Diseased or vicious animals which are a menace to public health or safety shall be destroyed. (Ord 1141 2001 Ord. 646 § A (part), 1976.)

The keeping or harboring of any animal, whether licensed or not, which by habitual howling, yelping, barking or other noise, or is a habitual nuisance by reason of trespassing or disturbance or is damaging property, or is vicious or by its actions potentially vicious, or in any other manner causes undue annoyance, is unlawful. The animal control officer, if he finds such nuisance to exist, shall serve notice upon the owner or custodian that such activity constitutes a public nuisance and must be abated. If such nuisance is not abated within three days of service of the notice, the animal control officer shall impound the animal in accordance with Section 8.04.100. (Ord 1141 2001 Ord. 670 § B, 1977; Ord. 646 § A (part), 1976.)

The keeping or harboring of any animal, whether licensed or not, which by habitual howling, yelping, barking or other noise or is a habitual nuisance by reason of trespassing, or disturbance or is damaging property, or is vicious or by its actions potentially vicious, or in any other manner causes undue annoyance is unlawful. Whenever it is affirmed in writing by five or more persons having separate residences in the neighborhood that any animal, whether licensed or not, which by habitual howling, yelping, barking or other noise or is a habitual nuisance by reason of trespassing, howling, barking or creating other noise or disturbance or is damaging property, or is vicious or by its actions potentially vicious, or in any other manner causes undue annoyance, the animal control officer, if he finds such nuisance to exist, shall serve notice upon the owner or

custodian that such activity constitutes a public nuisance and must be abated. If such nuisance is not abated within three days of service of the notice, the animal control officer shall impound the animal in accordance with Section 8.04.100. (Ord 1141 2001 Ord. 670 § C, 1977; Ord. 646 § A (part), 1976.)