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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCC Ord 388 1950-05-15 ". ORDINANCE NO. .3 YY I The City of Seal Beach, by and through its City Council, does ordain as follows: SECTION 1. The word "dog" whenever used in this Ord.inance shall be deemed to include female as well as male dogs, regardless of age; provided, however, that the provisions of this ordinance shall not apply to dogs which have been specially trained to act as guides and companions for blind persons, and are being used by blind persons in the City of Seal Beach for that purpose. SECTION 2. Every person owning or having control of any dog in the City of Seal Beach shall pay a license tax of $1.25 per annum for each spayed female dog; $1.25 per annum for each male dog, and $3.00 per an~um for each female dog so owned or controlled by him. The license shall be dated the 1st day of January of each year, unless it be issued on or after July 1st, in which case it shall be dated the 1st day of July, and shall be void on the 1st day of January, or the 1st day of July, respectively, thereafter. SECTION 3. It shall be the duty of the license collector to collect said license taxes and to procure at the expense of the City, plates or tags having thereon numbers corresponding to numbers of licenses issued, and figures indicating the year for whic said tax is payable. He shall furnish a plate or tag with number corresponding to license number to each person paying a tax, and shall enter into a book to be kept for that purpose, the name of the owner and ~ description of the dog so entered. SECTION 4. Every registered dog shall be provided by the owner or possessor thereof with a suitable collar at least three- fourths (3/4) of an inch wide, or some other suitable device, to which shall be attached the plate or tag provided for in Section 3 hereof, and such collar or device must be worn by such registered dog at all times. SECTION 5. Whenever a dog tag, issued for the current year by the license collector, has been lost, or taken or stolen by parties unknown to the owner or person having control of the dog for which the same was issued, such owner or person having control of such dog may, on the payment of fifty ('O~) cents and on making and subscribing to an affidavit of such loss of such tag, receive from the license collector a duplicate tag for the remaining por- tion of the year for which the original license was issued. SECTION 6. It is hereby declared unlawful, and shall con- stitute a misdemeanor, for any owner of a dog, as herein defined, to permit or allow said dog to run at large on any public street, avenue, alley, lane, place, park or public grounds, whether or not said dog ShB.ll be licensed; and any dog, whether licensed or not, found running at large shall be impounded, subject to redemption or sale, ae hereinafter provided. SECTION 7. All dogs shall be kept securely under leash while on any street, avenue, alley lane, place, park or public grounds in said City, and all dogs must be confined at all times when not under leash by the owner to the premises occupied by said owner, and either be securely tied on said premises or confined so as to pr~vent said dog from escaping therefrom. SECTION 8. In case it is satisfactorily proven to the poundmaster that a license for the then current year has been paid upon any dog impounded~ said dog shall be released upon pay- ment of a fee of two ($2.00) dollars and in the event said dog shall not have a license for the then current year, as herein provided, then the owner thereof, in order to release said dog, I I 1. " Ordinance Number I shall pay to the poundmaster the sum of two ($2.00) dollars, plus annual license fee. SECTION 9. Any person or the owner of any dog under their control or custody who requests the poundmaster to take up and. dispose of any such animal, shall be charged the sum of two ($2.00) dollars for such service. SECTION 10. It shall be unla,ful for any person to imitate or counterfeit the tags provided for in this ordinance, or to use any imitation or counterfeit of such tags. I SECTION 11. If any dog shall bite any person or any animal within the City of Seal Beach, the owner or person having custody or control of such dog shall upon request of any peace officer, poundmaster or his representatives, deliver such dog forthwith to such officer, poundmaster or his representative to be held for ten (10) days for the purpose of determining whether or not such dog is afflicted with ra.bies, and the owner or person having control of such dog shall pay all the expenses of the keeping thereof during the time such dog shall be so held. In lieu of impounding said dog in the City Pound, the owner or person having control of such dog, with the approval of the Police Department, shall forthwith make arra.ngements with a veter- inarian in the City of Seal Beach, approved by the Health Depart- ment, for the impounding of said dog for a period of ten (10) days, and deliver said dog to said veterinarian forthwith; upon receipt of such dog, the said veterinarian shall immediately notify the Police Department. The provisions of this Section shall not apply in those cases where any dog bites the owner or person having control of such dog, or any member of the immediate family of the owner or person having control of such dog. SECTION 12. It shall be unlawful for any person to rescue, or attempt to rescue, or in any way interfere with the Pound master, his deputies or assistants, while impounding or attempting to imoound dogs pursuant to this Section. SECTION 13. It shall be unlawful for any person to bring into, or for any person to allon- any dog to enter any place of business in which food is sold, prepared for sale, oroduced, manu- fac~ured, packed, stored or otherwise disposed of. SECTIOI 14. It shall be unlawful for any person to keep on anyone premises owned or occupied br him, more than three (3) dogs if said dogs are more than six 6) months old, unless said dogs are properly housed in kennels aporoved by the Health Depart- ment. I It more than three (3) dogs over the age of six (6) months are kept in a permanent enclosure or in a kennel as herein pro- vided no part of said enclosure or kennel may be within twenty- five l2~) feet of any dwelling house occupied by human beings, except any and all dwelling houses owned or occupied by the per- son owning or having control of the dog, provided, however, that the provisions of this Section will not apply to kennels and en- closures owned and operated as a business. SECTION 15. The poundmsster, upon impounding any dog, shall immediately notify the owner or person entitled to the possession thereof, of the impounding of said dog if such person is personally known to him. 2. Oedinance 'Number SECTION 16. After the expiration of 46 hours from the time of impounding any dog, pursuant to the provisions of the preceding section, may be sold, given away or destroyed by the poundmaster. SECTION 17. The position of poundmaster is hereby created. It shall be filled by appointment by the Oity Council, the appointee to serve at the pleasure of the City Council an~, as such, shall not be included in the classified service of the City. The pound- master shall receive such compensation as may be provided by the Oity Council, and all license fees, charges, costs, receipts from sales, etc., collected by the poundmaster monthly to the City Council as to his activities as poundmaster. SECTION 18. Any person violating any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not more than Fifty Dollars ($50.00), or by imprisonment for not more than ten (10) days, or by both such fine and imprisonment. SECTION 19. This Ordinance shall be printed and published once in the SEAL BEACH POST AND WAVE, a newspaper printed, pub- lished and circulated in the City of Seal Beach, and shall take effect and be in force 30 days from and after its final adoption by the Oity Council. r__ The above and foregoing Ordinance was introduced at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Seal Beach held on the 1st day of May, 1950, and was finally passed and adopted on the 15th day of May, 1950, by said City Council at a regular meeting thereof, by the following vote, to-wit: AYES, COUNCILMEN: .4(JW~IfS GIi'I141AE"1? ,,((:~/V'~"'~E8CTE"f, SHVFE~T NOES, COUNCILMEN: ~4~~ ABSENT, COUNCILMEN: It/"IYE The foregoing Ordinance is signed and approved by me this /.511 day of .44#'/ , 1950. . / .' ~....~ -r: ~~€-' Mayor of the City of Sea Beach, California - ATTEST: 3.