(a)       The owner of any companion animal which has died from disease or other cause shall forthwith cremate, bury or sanitarily dispose of the same.  If, after notice, any owner fails to do so, the animal control officer or other officer shall bury or cremate the animal and the control officer or other officer may recover, on behalf of the county, the cost of this service.

(b)       Any person, animal control officer or other officer euthanizing a companion animal under this chapter shall cremate, bury or sanitarily dispose of the same.

(c)       As to animals which are other than companion animals, when the owner of any animal or grown fowl, other than companion animal, which has died knows of such death, such owner shall forthwith have its body cremated or buried, and, if he fails to do so, any judge of a general district court, after notice to the owner if he can be ascertained, shall cause any such dead animal or fowl to be cremated or buried by an officer or other person designated for the purpose.  Such officer or other person shall be entitled to recover of the owner of every such animal so cremated or buried the actual cost of the cremation or burial, not to exceed seventy-five dollars, and of the owner of every such fowl so cremated or buried the actual cost of the cremation or burial, not to exceed five dollars, to be recovered in the same manner as officers' fees are recovered, free from all exemptions in favor of such owner.  Any person violating the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a Class 4 misdemeanor.

Nothing in this section shall be deemed to require the burial or cremation of the whole or portions of any animal or fowl which is to be used for food or in any commercial manner.