Legal Documents of Sweetwater

The mayor and board of commissioners may from time to time employ a part or full time humane officer, or officers, whose main duties shall be the enforcement of all ordinances relating to animals and fowls and any other related ordinances and he shall be in charge of the dog and cat pound and the maintenance of the same. This officer shall have all of the authority provided under the laws of the State of Tennessee and the City of Sweetwater for this purpose and all city policemen and city firemen shall render assistance to him when so requested in performing his official duties hereunder. (1982 Code, § 3-208)