§ 6.04.482. Vicious animals—Appeal of order of abatement.

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Upon receipt of a timely request for a hearing, the animal control director shall set a time, place and date for the hearing and shall immediately give notice of same to the owner and to the other interested parties including the complainant(s). The hearing shall be held not more than five working days following receipt of request. At the hearing, the director may hear and consider any evidence which he deems relevant, including his own personal observations of the animal in question. The burden shall be upon the owner to prove by a preponderance of the evidence that the animal should not be humanely destroyed. After the conclusion of evidence, the director shall make findings and a determination whether to sustain or overrule the order of abatement. If the order is overruled, the animal shall be released to the owner, and costs of impoundment shall be borne by the county.

(Ord. 479 § 2(part), 1984).

                    
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