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V% <br />REQUEST FOR COUNCIL ACTION <br />AGENDA SECTION: <br />ITE m IN 0 <br />-Ole <br />i I j <br />Reports & Recommendation <br />N NO <br />i <br />ITEM DESCRIPTIONI'Amended Procedure on Handling Animal Bites <br />I <br />DATE.' 12/19/83 <br />DEPT, HEAD APPROVAJ <br />�In June, 1981, a procedure was developed, and, 'implemented for handling <br />I <br />animal bite 'incidents. It provided for the inpoundment of all animals <br />which hiad bitten a person for ten days at, the expense of the owner,, <br />It also pernulitted, implounidment at the owner"s resildence if all of the following <br />WMMWWF� <br />four conons w,erel, melt: <br />II I III r <br />Also, at the time of developing the policy, the question of legal liability <br />a' I <br />'...xposure to the City was not, determined. <br />Since the policy was irrPlemented, there have been, two to three bite incidents <br />01 <br />involving a nonfamily plerison, where the owner, of the animal requested the <br />a <br />Clity to allow h,im/her to 1''rnpound the ani,mal on their own premises, and with <br />the perimiissii,on of the person bitten. According to, the procedure, this could <br />Y be allowed,, <br />