1. (A) If a law enforcement agent, animal control officer, or animal control officer under contract with a county or municipal government to provide animal control services has probable cause to believe that a dangerous animal is being harbored or cared for in violation of Section 47-3-720 or 47-3-740 or 47-3-760(E), the agent or officer may petition the court having jurisdiction to order the seizure and impoundment of the dangerous animal while the trial is pending.
2. (B) If a law enforcement agent, animal control officer, or animal control officer under contract with a county or municipal government to provide animal control services has probable cause to believe that a dangerous animal is being harbored or housed in violation of Section 47-3-730, the agent or officer may seize and impound the dangerous animal while the trial is pending.

HISTORY: 1988 Act No. 515, eff May 9, 1988; 1992 Act No. 374, Section 1, eff May 19, 1992; 1996 Act No. 382, Section 3, eff June 4, 1996.

Code Commissioner's Note

Section 47-3-650 as enacted by 1988 Act No. 515, Section 1, has been redesignated as Section 47-3-750 by direction of the Code Commissioner.

Effect of Amendment

The 1992 amendment rewrote this section to make it apply to dangerous animals, instead of dangerous dogs.

The 1996 amendment, in subsections (A) and (B), inserted ", animal control officer, or animal control officer under contract with a county or municipal government to provide animal control services" after "law enforcement officer" and replaced "he" with "the agent or officer".