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
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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
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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