A peace officer or a humane officer who finds an animal in a motor vehicle in violation of this article may break and enter the motor vehicle if necessary to remove the animal. The officer removing the animal shall take the animal to an animal shelter or other place of safekeeping and shall in the event the person having custody cannot be otherwise contacted, leave in a prominent place in the motor vehicle a written notice bearing his name and office and the address where the animal may be claimed by the owner thereof. The animal will be surrendered to the owner if the owner claims the animal within ten days from the time the animal was removed from the motor vehicle and pays all reasonable charges that have accrued for the maintenance of the animal. If the owner fails to claim the animal within five days after its removal from the motor vehicle, the person or animal shelter having custody of the animal will make reasonable effort to contact the owner and give notice that the animal is in their custody and may be reclaimed by the owner upon payment of the reasonable maintenance charges. In the event the owner cannot be contacted, or expresses no interest in reclaiming the animal within five days after contact or efforts to contact, the person or animal shelter having custody of the animal may dispose of the animal in any reasonably humane manner. (Ord. No. G-1222, § 1)