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custodian or the City to protect the public safety if the animal is <br />permitted to remain in the City. <br />(c) Within three business days of such hearing, the Health Commissioner shall <br />issue a written decision based upon all of the facts known to the Animal Control Officer. <br />506.09 DECISION OF THE HEALTH COMMISSIONER. <br />(a) If the Health Commissioner finds that the animal represents a continuing <br />threat of serious harm to human beings or domestic animals, but that the public safety <br />can be protected by the owner or custodian of the animal exercising reasonable control <br />over the animal, the decision of the Health Commissioner shall designate the animal to <br />be a dangerous animal. <br />(b) If the Health Commissioner finds that the animal represents a continued <br />threat of serious harm to human beings or domestic animals, and that the public safety <br />cannot be protected by the owner or custodian of the animal exercising reasonable <br />control over the animal, the decision of the Health Commissioner shall designate the <br />animal to be a vicious animal. <br />(c) If the Health Commissioner finds that the animal does not represent a <br />continued threat of serious harm to human beings or domestic animals, the decision of <br />the Health Commissioner shall make no designation of the animal, and such animal <br />shall be released to its owner or custodian. Such determination shall in no manner alter <br />whether such animal may thereafter be deemed to be a dangerous animal or a vicious <br />animal under Section 506.04. <br />506.10 DISPOSITION OF VICIOUS ANIMALS. <br />(a) No person shall own, possess, harbor or keep any animal designated by <br />the Health Commissioner, after a hearing, to be a vicious animal. <br />(b) Any animal designated by the Health Commissioner, after a hearing, to be <br />a vicious animal, if not already impounded by the City, shall be immediately surrendered <br />to the Health Commissioner, Animal Control Officer or a police officer. <br />(c) Any animal declared by the Health Commissioner, after a hearing, to be a <br />vicious animal shall be humanely destroyed. <br />(d) The Health Commissioner shall issue an order authorizing the destruction <br />of the vicious animal to take place not earlier than five days following the written <br />decision by the Health Commissioner designating the animal to be a vicious animal. If <br />the owner or custodian of the vicious animal, within such period, files a notice of appeal <br />of the Health Commissioner's decision with a court of competent jurisdiction, serves the <br />Health Commissioner with a copy of the notice of appeal and removes the animal from <br />the City pending such appeal, the City shall stay the order of destruction, pending the <br />