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HomeMy WebLinkAbout0628)RDINANCE.NO. 628 (1974 Series; AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO AMENDING CERTAIN PROVISIONS OF THE MUNICIPAL CODE CONCERNING THE LICENSING AND VACCINATION OF.DOGS. BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of San Luis.Obispo as follows: SECTION 1. Sections 4115.2 through 4115.8, 4117.0, and 4118.0 of the Municipal Code are hereby amended to read in full as follows: SECTION 4115.2. No licensing without vaccination. The County Department of Animal Regulation shall not license any dog until it has been vaccinated with canine rabies vaccine by injection or other method approved by the health officer during the time prescribed by state law or the rules and regulations of the State Department of Public Health, unless the owner or person in possession of the same submits a certificate from a licensed veterinarian issued within the preceding sixty days, stating that, in his opinion, the rabies vaccination would be likely to seriously injure the dog. Any dog so excepted from rabies vaccination shall be restricted to the enclosed yard of the owner or person in possession of the same except when held upon a rope, chain, or leash. Any violation thereof by the owner or person in possession of such dog is unlawful. SECTION 4115.3. Vaccination performance. The vaccination shall be performed by a duly qualified and licensed veterinarian. The veterinarian vaccinating the dog shall issue to the owner or person in possession.of the dog a rabies vaccination tag and a certificate of vaccination, which certificate shall include: (a) The type of vaccine used; (b) The date of vaccination; (c) Description of dog, including age, breed and color; (d) Serial number of rabies vaccination tag issued to dog; (e) Name and address of owner of dog; (f) Statement that the dog is male, neutered male, female or spayed female. A copy of this certificate shall be sent to the County Department of Animal Regulation. SECTION 4115.4. Registration record. The County Department of Animal Regulation shall maintain a record in which it shall, upon the application of any person owning or having the custody of any dog in the City of San Luis Obispo, and the payment to it of the license fee hereby prescribed, register' the dog by entering in the record its name (if any), its sex and general description, whether it has been spayed or neutered, the name of its owner or custodian, the number of the tag issued therefor, the date of expiration of the rabies vaccine, the date of issuance and the amount received for the license fee. SECTION 4115.5. Dog tags. Upon exhibition of the proper evidence of vaccination and payment of the license fee, there shall be delivered"to the person making such payment a metal tag with the number and year stamped or cut thereon, and the words �n� Ordinance No. 628 -2- (1974 Series) "DOG TAG - County of San Luis Obispo," stamped thereon, which dog tag shall be securely fastened to a collar or harness which must be worn at all times by the dog for which the tag was issued.. If the dog is exempted from vaccination, the dog tag shall have a distinguishing mark as evidence of such fact. This tag, while attached to a dog's collar or harness, shall be prima facie evidence that the dog for which the tag was issued has been licensed during the calendar year for which the tag was issued, and has been vaccinated. SECTION 4115.6. Annual registration of dogs. On January 1 of each year, all prior licensing made under the provisions of this chapter shall be cancelled and all tags theretofore issued shall become null and void and of no effect and all dogs kept or permitted to remain in the City of San Luis Obispo must be again licensed. The new license fee shall become due and payable on January 1 of each year. SECTION 4115.7. License fees The following fees shall be charged: (a) For licensing each altered dog, male or female, the County Department of Animal Regulation shall collect and receive a fee of Five Dollars, and for licensing each unaltered dog, male or female, it shall collect and receive a fee of Ten Dollars, unless the owner or custodian of the dog chooses to place a deposit for the spaying or neutering of said dog, with the County Department of Animal Regulation. This deposit shall be forfeited to the County Department of Animal Regulation if said operation is not performed by the expiration date of the license issued. (b) The license fee shall be,paid by March 8 of each year. After this date a late penalty shall take effect and the late license fee shall be twice the pre - penalty fee. (c) Puppies must be licensed upon reaching the age of 4 months. A spay- neuter deposit may be placed with the County Department of Animal Regulation, at which time the lesser fee of Five Dollars shall be charged. (d) Any dog brought within the City after March 15 of each year. shall be registered within thirty days of these penalties shall accrue from date of entry into the City provided that any dog which has a valid license from any other county or city within the State of California shall be so registered upon a fee of one half the established fee. SECTION 4115.8. Lost tag. If the tag issued for any duly registered dog be lost or accidentally destroyed during the year it is issued, the owner or custodian of such dog, upon making proof to the satisfaction of the County Department of Animal Regulation of its loss or destruction, shall, upon payment of a fee of Two Dollars receive for such dog another tag; whereupon the County Department of Animal Regulation shall enter the number of the tag so issued on the register and cancel the tag previously issued for such dog. Ordinance No. 628 -3- 1974 Series) SECTION 4117.0. Failure to furnish information. Any person owning or having the care, custody or control of any dog in the City of San Luis.Obispo, who willfully refuses, fails or neglects to furnish to the County Department of Animal Regulation, the health officer, or any of their duly qualified and authorized deputies or employees, the information necessary to.properly license the dog; or who shall resist, hinder or prevent the County Department of Animal Regulation, health officer, or any of their duly authorized deputies or employees in the exercise of their duties or who fails, neglects or refuses to pay the license fee at the time and in the manner herein provided, or who violates any of the provisions of this title declared to be unlawful, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. SECTION 4118.0. Counterfeiting. No person shall imitate or counterfeit such registration tags or rabies vaccination tags. It shall be unlawful for any person to remove any tag from any dog not owned by him or not lawfully in his possession or under his control or to place on any dog any such license tag not issued as provided for above for that particular dog for the then current year or to make or to have in his possession or to place on a dog any counterfeit or imitation of any license tag or vaccination tag provided for. SECTION 2. This Ordinance, together with the ayes and noes, shall be published once in full, at least three days prior to its final passage, in the Telegram- Tribune, a newspaper published and circulated in said City, and the same shall go into effect at the expiration of thirty days after its said final passage. INTRODUCED AND PASSED TO PRINT by the Council of the City of San Luis Obispo at an adjourned meeting thereof held on the 9th day of December 1974, on motion of Councilman Graham , seconded by Mauor Schwartz and on the following roll call vote: AYES :. Councilmen Graham, Norris and Mayor Schwartz NOES: None ABSENT: Councilmen Brown and Gurnee 0 ATTEST: City FINALLY PASSED this 16th day of December, 1974, by the following roll call vote: ATTEST: AYES: Councilmen Gurnee, Brown, Graham and Mayor Schwartz NOES: Councilman Norris ABSENT: None atrick, City Clerk