(Excerpts from Code of the City of Muscatine Title 6, Chapter 8, Section 9)
- A dangerous dog is defined as any dog that, while on public or private property (including the owner's property)
- Behaves in a manner that a reasonable person would believe poses a serious and unjustified imminent threat of serious physical injury or death to a person or domestic animal, chasing or approaching a numan upon the streets, sidewalks, or any public or private property in a menacing or threatening manner, and in an apparent attitude of attack without provocation.
- Causes injury to a domestic animal.
- Has caused a bite injury and is not a vicious dog
- A vicious dog is defined as any dog that, while on public or private property (including the owner's property) without provocation or justification bites or attacks a person and causes serious injury or death or is declared vicious under other provisions of Title 6, Chapter 8.
- A dog may be declared dangerous or vicious based upon
- A complaint of a person
- Dog bite report filed with an animal control officer
- Actions witnessed by an animal control officer or law enforcement
- Other substantial evidence
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