Chapter 6.12 — ISSUANCE OF CITATIONS

State Law reference— For statutory provisions on the qualifications and authority of humane officers, see Civil Code §§607f and 607g.

All employees of the police department of the city, or any other municipal police department within the county, and employees of nonprofit corporation who have qualified as humane officers pursuant to Section 607(f) of the Civil Code of the state, shall have authority to issue notices to appear in court pursuant to Chapters 6.04, 6.08 and this chapter of the Exeter Municipal Code. The authorization to issue notices to appear granted to other municipal police department personnel and/or nonprofit corporation employees who have qualified as humane officers, shall continue in effect only so long as an agreement is in effect between the city and such other municipality or nonprofit corporation under which said other entity provides animal control services to the city.

(Ord. 328 §1, 1975; Ord. 537 §3, 1994)