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the unknown owner, keeper, or harborer that, unless the animal is redeemed within three days, it may
<br />thereafter be sold or destroyed according to law. If the animal is wearing a valid registration tag or
<br />the identity of the owner, keeper, or harborer can otherwise be reasonably determined, notice shall
<br />be given by certified mail to such owner, keeper, or harborer that the animal has been impounded and
<br />unless redeemed within fourteen days of the date of the notice, it may thereafter be sold or destroyed
<br />according to law. Any animal seized and impounded may be redeemed by its owner, keeper, or
<br />harborer at any time prior to the end of the applicable redemptian period upon payment of all lawful
<br />costs assessed against the animal and upon providing the animal, if required by law, with a valid
<br />registration tag if it has none.
<br />(b) A record of all animals impounded, the disposition of the same, the owner, harborer
<br />or keeper's name and address, where known, and a statement of all costs assessed against the
<br />animal shall be kept by the animal warden.
<br />"505.08 NUISANCE CONDITIONS PROHIBITED.
<br />(a) No person shall keep or harbor any animal in the City so as to permit or suffer to
<br />be permitted the commission or evidence of a nuisance as hereinafter defined.
<br />(b) Any animal which disturbs the peace and quiet, endangers the repose or health of
<br />any person or persons, or causes property damage, in any one of the following manners is hereby
<br />declared to be a nuisance:
<br />(1) by frequently or habitually malang loud and offensive noises, including, but
<br />not limited to barking, howling, hissing, crying, screaming, screeching, or
<br />yelping;
<br />(2) by frequently or habitually scratching or digging in, or urinating or
<br />defecating upon, any lawn, tree, shrub, plant, building or any other
<br />property, public or private, other than the property of the owner or person
<br />in charge or control of such animal, thereby causing damage to the said
<br />lawn, tree, shrub, plant or building; or
<br />(3) on any occasion, when the animal is found on the property of another or
<br />upon public property, and is, in an aggressive manner, threa.tening to
<br />attack, or has attacked, any human being.
<br />(c) On complaint of any person or police officer that an animal, harbored or kept in the
<br />City, has disturbed the peace and quiet, endangered the repose or health of any person or persons,
<br />or damaged property in any one af the manners specified above, written notice therefor by the
<br />animal warden shall be given to the person harboring or keeping such animal. Failure to abate
<br />the nuisance complained of shall subject the person to the penalty provided for in this section.
<br />(d) In the case of defecation, wherein the owner or person in charge or control of such
<br />animal, removes all feces deposited by such animal and disposes of the same in a sanitary manner,
<br />such nuisance shall be considered abated.
<br />(e) If upon complaint by any person or police officer as provided in pazagraph (c) above,
<br />the owner, harborer or keeper of the animal cannot be immediately determined, the animal warden
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