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1/9/8 <br />DATE' <br />REQUEST FOR COUNCIL: ACTIONI <br />A I ORIGINATING DEPT. /DiN." <br />,G'EN�DA SECTION: I Administration <br />Resolutions & Ordinances <br />DEPT. HEAD APPROVAL. <br />ITEM NO.1' ITEM DESCRIPTION -Anended Procedure on Handling Animal Bites MG" <br />Iter, clon,t"nued from the December 191, 1983 ,meeting. <br />. I I I A7 <br />In June, 1981, a procedure was developed and impilernented for handling <br />,animal blite 1'Lncidents. It pr'ovided for the imploundment of all animals <br />which had, bitten a person for, ten days at the expense of the owner. <br />It also permitted impoundment at the owner'sil residence 'if all of the followint <br />4- - <br />four conditions were meti <br />Also, at the time of d,evel,opling the policyi,, the question of legal liability <br />expoisur,e to the City, was, not, determined. <br />4 <br />Since the policy was implemented, there have been two to three bite dents <br />i,nvol,vi,n,g a n,onf'am,ily plerson,, where the owner of' the animal requested the <br />,City to allow him/her to impound the animal on their own premises, and with <br />the per,m,i,sision of the peirson, bitten. According to the procedure, this could <br />not be alloweld, <br />