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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCC Ord 374 Failed I I I LAW OP'P'IC.. 01" ROLAND THOMPSON 208 SPURGEON BLDG. SANTA ANA. CALI", ..... 4 - " .. 1 2 ORDINANCE NO.~ 3 The City of Seal Beach, by and through ite City Council, does ordain as follows: 4 SECTION 1. The \'lord Udog" whenever used in this Ordinance 5 shall be deemed to include female as well as male dogs, regardless of age; provided, however, that the provisions of this ordinance 6 shall not apply to dogs which have been specially trained to act as guides and companions for blind persons, and are being used by 7 blind persons in the City of Seal Beach for that purpose. 8 9 10 11 12 13 SECTION 2. Every person owning or having control of any._ dog in the City of Seal Beach shall p~ a license tax of $/~ per annum for each spayed female dog; 31 ~.r per annum fOIl-each male dog, and $ 3!!.. per annum for each female dog so owned or controlled by him. The l1cense 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 14 .to collect said license taxes and to procure at the expense of thp City, plates or tags having thereon numbers corresponding to 15 numbers of licenses issued, and figures indicating the year for whi h said tax is payable. He shall furnish a plate or tag with number 16 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 17 the owner and a deecr1ption of the dog so entered. 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 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 \'lorn by such registered dog at all times. SECTION 5. Whenever a dog tag, issued for the current year by the license colI ector, 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 (50) 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. . .}:t 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 shall be licensed; and any dog, whether licensed or not, found running at large shall be impounded, subject to redemption or sale, as hereinafter provided. 30 SECTION 7. All dogs shall be kept securely under leash while on any street, avenue, alley, lane, place, park or public grounds 31 in said City, and all dogs must be confined at all ti~es when not under leash by the owner to the premises occupied by said owner, 32 and either be securely tied on said premises or confined so as to prevent eaid dog from escaping therefrom. 1. -; I I 1/ 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 LAW O....ICE. OF ROLAND THOMPSON 208 SPURGEON BLDG SANTA. ANA, CALIF " OrdiDanc~ Nqrnber. 1 2 3 4 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 imyounded, said dog shall be released upon P&7- ment of a fee of1&0~ and costs of keeping said dog, 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 re- lease said dog, shall pay to the poundmaster th~ sum of $2.00, and costs of keeping said dog. t.' v. e., ....,..' :..' # ..'..:r' 10 SECTION 9. It shall be unlawful for any person to imitate or counterreit the tags provided for in this ordinance, or to use any imitation or counterfeit of such tags. ,I SECTION 10. 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 ~hether or not such dog is afflicted with rabies, 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 arrangements 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. l?v SECTION 11. It shall be unlawful for any person to rescue, or attempt to. rescue, or in any way interfere with the Poundmast- er, his deputies or assistants, while impounding or attempting to impound dogs pureuant to this Section. 13 SECTION 12. It shall be unlawful for any person to bring into, or ror any person to allow any dog to enter any place ot business in wh~ch food is sold, prepared for sale, produced, manu- factured, Packed, 'stored or otherwise disposed of. Ii-/- SECTION 13. It shall be unlawful for any person to keep on anyone premises owned or occupied by him, more than three (3) dogs if said dogs are more than six (6) months old, unless said dogs are properly housed in kennels 'approved by the Health Depart- ment. If 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 (25) feet of any duelling house occupied by human beings, except any and all dwellinB 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. 2. I I I '.3 LA.W OP'P'.Ce:8 01" ROLAND THOMPSON 208 SPURGEON BLDG. SANTA AHA., CALI.... .. OrdiJlanc~ N\lIIlber , , " 1 2 )~ SECTION 14. The poundmaster, upon impounding any dog, shall immediately notify the o~~er or person entitled to the possession thereof, of the impounding of said dog if such person is person- ally known to him,tor if unknown, by posting- notices-of the im- pounding of said dog with a brief description of the dog and the time and plac'e of its apprehension, in at least three public pla- ces in the City. ,10 ) J/.~' SECTION 15. After th~.~~~ra~~q.of~O hours from the time or p<Hl-t!-ng said no-t1ee-s, ..any dog i~ pursuant to the provisions of the preceding section may be sold, given away or de- stroyed by the poundmaster. ~ 1'1 SECTION 16. The position of poundmaster is hereby created. It shall be filTed by appointment by the City Council, the appoint- ee to serve at the pleasure of the City Council and, as such, shall not be included in the classified serv~c~ of the City. The pound- master shall receive such compensation 'as may be provided by the City Council, and all license fees, charges, costs, reoeipts from sales, etc., collected by the poundmaster, shall be regularly de- posited by said poundmaster with the City Treasurer and a report shall be made by said poundmaster monthly to the City Council as to his activities as poundmaster. \'b SECTION 17. 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 ~~ both such fine and imprisonment. SECTION 18. This Ordinance shall be printed and published once in the SEAL BEACH NEWS, a newspaper printed, published and circulated in the City of Seal Beach, and shall take effeot and be in force 30 days from and after its final adoption by the City Council. 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 The above and foregoing Ordinance was introduced at a regular meeting o~ t~e~~y Council of the City of Seal Beach held on the 21 "lst~a of~, 19~J and was finally passed and adopted on the day of A1R Y , 19.6"0, by said City Council at 22 a regu ar meeting there~, by the following vote, to-wit! 23 AYES, COUNCILMEN: 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 ATTEST: NOES, COUNClLijEN: ABSENT, COUNCILMEN: The foregoing Ordinance is signed and approved by me this day of , 1949. MAYOR 32 Cit Y Clerk 3.