The Lower Pottsgrove Township animal control officer, any Township police officer, or any Township constable may seize any dog, cat or other domesticated animal found running at large throughout the Township.
If the animal control officer, police officer or constable can readily identify the name and address of an animal's owner upon seizing the animal, he or she will return the animal to the owner's home address. He or she will then provide that owner with the notice of a pending citation as required by § 2-8 of this chapter at his or her earliest convenience.
If the animal control officer, police officer or constable that has seized an animal cannot readily identify that animal's owner, he or she will transport the animal to an approved kennel.
In the event that a seized animal is licensed, but the owner's name or address was not readily available at the animal's initial seizure, the animal control officer shall notify its owner, by certified mail with return receipt requested, that the animal will be held at an approved kennel for one week. After one week has passed and the animal's owner has not claimed it, the animal control officer will transport the animal to the local SPCA. At this time, the seized animal shall no longer be the responsibility of the Township.
In the event that a seized animal is unlicensed, the animal will be held at an approved kennel for three days. If the animal is not claimed within three days, the animal control officer will transport the animal to the local SPCA. At this time, the seized animal shall no longer be the responsibility of the Township.
The Township Secretary is hereby authorized to make the appropriate arrangements with an approved kennel and the local SPCA in order to fulfill the requirements of this article.
If any sentence, clause, section or part of this article is for any reason found to be unconstitutional, illegal or invalid, such unconstitutionality, illegality or invalidity shall not affect or impair any of the remaining provisions, sentences, clauses, sections or parts of this article. It is hereby declared as the intent of the Board of Commissioners of the Township that this article would have been adopted had such unconstitutional, illegal or invalid sentence, clause, section or part thereof not been included herein.