ORDINANCE O-18-019
Officer or other authorized person shall forthwith serve on the owner a notice in writing
stating that the chicken has been seized and will be liable to be disposed of or destroyed if
not claimed within seven days after the serving of notice. Notice may be served either by
giving it to such person or by leaving it at the person's usual or last known place of
abode, as determined by the registration tasidentification or other available information.
i. No chicken shall be released or removed from confinement until all applicable board; and
care fees have been paid.
iil. When a seized chicken has been detained for seven days after seizure, with due notice
given as prescribed in this section G-; and the owner has not claimed the chicken; and paid all
applicable fees, the dDog eOfficer or other authorized person may cause the chicken to be
destroyed in the least painful manner possible.
The Dog Officer or other authorized person may keep or cause to be kept in confinement any
chicken which, in that person's opinion may be valuable or acceptable to new ownership, and see
that such chicken is placed in anew home. In order to expedite this alternative, the Dog Officer
or other authorized person shall make available to the public, monthly, a list by number and other
reference of chickens available. Those persons desiring to procure said chickens may do so by
application to the Dog Officer or other authorized person and payment of applicable adoption
fees.
iv. No chicken which the Dog Officer or other authorized person has taken into custody for a
second offense shall be released unless the person to whom the chicken is released pays a penalty
of $25, as allowed by RSA 466:39, in addition to meeting all other requirements of this section.
If said penalty is not paid within seven days after the chicken is taken into custody, the chicken
may be destroyed in the least painful manner possible or placed in a new home as described in
this section G.
All other ordinances or parts of ordinances inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed.
This ordinance shall become effective immediately upon passage.
