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7.2.1 Notice of Initial Determination. The Notice of Initial Determination shall be personally served on the owner of the dog or on a person of suitable age at the residence of such owner. The Notice of Initial Determination shall describe the dqg deemed to be potentially dangerous or dangerous; shall identify the time, place and circumstances under which the clog was declared dangerous; shall identify the officer making the Initial. Determination; and shall inform the owner of the owner's right to appeal the Initial Determination within 14 days of the date of notice. The notice shall also inform the owner that compliance with 7.4.1 and 7.4.3 of this Ordinance. until the appeal is decided and that all actual costs of care, keepingand. disposition of the dogarethe responsibilityof the owner. 7.2.2 Request of Hearing and Hearing. An owner may appeal the Initial Determination by filing a Request for Hearing with the City Administrator within fourteen (14) dosof the owner's receipt of the Notice. of Initial Determination. A hearing shall be held within fourteen (14) days after the City's receiptof the Request for Hearing. The City Administrator shall assign a Hearing Officer who shall not be the person who made the Initial Determination. At the hearing, the Hearing Officer shall consider the reports and comments of the Animal Control Authority, the testimony_ of any witnesses, witness statements, and the comments of the owner of the dog. After considering all of the evidence submitted, the Hearing Officer shall make written findings and shall determine whether the dog is a potentially dangerous dog or a dangerous dog (Final Determination) The Hearing Officer shall apply the definitions of Section 2.3 in making a determination, but shall not declare a dog dangerous if the evidence at hearing shows it is more likely than not that the threat injury, or damage wassustained lay. a person: tl) who was committing at the time a willful trespass or other tort upon the premises:occupied by the dog;. 2.) who was provoking, tormenting, abusing, or assaulting the dog or who has repeatedly, in the past provoked tormented, abused or assaulted the dog; or 13j who was committing or attempting to commit a crime. The finding shall be made within ten LI0) days of the date of the hearingand shall be personally served upon the owner of the dog or upon a person of suitable age at the residence of the owner. If the Hearing Officer upholds the dangerous dog determination, the dog's owner shall be responsible for paving the actual costs of the hearing, up to $1,900.. 7.3 Dangerous Dog Restrictions.