<div class="chunk-title">Sec. 6-128. - Certain dogs may be killed.</div>
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               (a)
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               Subject to provisions of containment, a dog that has been declared vicious, dangerous
               or potentially dangerous that is chasing or approaching in a menacing fashion or in
               an apparent attitude of attack, that attempts to bite or otherwise endanger, or that
               kills or injures a person or an animal that is the property of another person can
               be killed at the time of that chasing, approaching, attempt, killing or injury.
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               (b)
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               If, in attempting to kill such a dog, a person wounds it, that person shall not be
               liable to prosecution under the penal laws which govern cruelty to animals nor is
               that person civilly liable for the death or injury of that dog.
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               (c)
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               The owner of said dog is liable in damages for any injury, death of another animal
               or loss to a person or property that is caused by the dog unless the injury, death
               or loss was caused to the person or property of an individual who, at the time, was
               committing or attempting to commit a criminal offense against any person or was teasing,
               tormenting or abusing the dog on the owner's property.
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               (d)
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               Any dog, regardless of declaration of dangerousness or potential dangerousness or
               viciousness, that has killed a human being, regardless of the location or provocation
               will be immediately seized by sheriff and humanely destroyed. If humane capture of
               the dog cannot be effected, the dog may be destroyed on site by any person or persons
               without prosecution for cruelty to animals or civil liability for such action. The
               owner of the dog shall be held fully responsible for its actions.
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               (Ord. of 8-20-2007; Ord. of 8-19-2019)
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