HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD NO 2670ORDINANCE NO. ?670
NEW SERIES
AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
BAKERSFIELD AMENDING SECTIONS 9.08.050 AND
9.08.060 OF THE BAKERSFIELD MUNICIPAL CODE
PROVIDING FOR BIENNIAL DOG LICENSES AND
COLLECTION OF LICENSE FEES.
BE
as follows:
IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Bakersfield
SECTION 1.
Section 9.08.050 of the Municipal Code of the City of
Bakersfield is hereby amended to read as follows:
9.08.050 License fee - Tag - Issuance of duplicate tag.
(a) Every person, firm or corporation owning or maintaining
a dog or dogs in the City of Bakersfield, except dogs under the
age of four (4) months as provided for in Section 9.08.040, shall
pay to the License Collector a biennial license fee in the amount
prescribed by resolution of the Council of the City of Bakersfield.
(b) The license fee as prescribed by the City Council shall
be due and payable on the first day of July of every year, or as
soon thereafter as any dog subject hereto is brought into the
City of Bakers~'ield, or whenever any dog exempted under subsection
(a) hereof reaches the age of four (4) months, and the same shall
be charged against and be payable by the owner or the person
having the care, custody and control, or who has in his possession
or harbors said dog. Such license fee shall be delinquent sixty
(60) days after due and payable, and a delinquency fee of Five
Dollars ($5.00) shall be added to the license fee. Upon exhibition
of the proper certificate of vaccination, or a proper certificate
of exemption from 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, "BAKERSFIELD DOG TAG" 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
tinguishing
attached to
from vaccination, the dog tag shall have a dis-
mark as evidence of such fact. Said tag, while
a dog's collar or harness, shall be prima facie
evidence that the dog for which the same was issued has been
licensed during the calendar year for which said tag was issued,
and has been vaccinated or is
vaccination.
(c) If any dog is found
exempt from the requirement of
in or upon any place in the City
without having an official tag attached to his collar or harness
as required by this chapter, said dog shall be presumed not to
have been vaccinated or licensed as required by this chapter, and
the City and the Health Officer may act upon such presumption in
the absence of satisfactory proof of vaccination or licensing.
(d) Whenever a dog tag issued for the current calendar
year has been lost or stolen by parties unknown to the owner or
person having the care, custody and control of the dog for which
the same was issued, such owner or person having care, custody
or control of such dog may, upon the payment of a fee in the amount
prescribed by resolution of the City Council, and exhibition of
his certificate of vaccination or of exemption from vaccination
of such dog, and on making and subscribing to an affidavit of such
loss of
tag for
tag was
such tag, receive from the License Collector a duplicate
the remaining portion of the period for which the original
issued.
SECTION 2.
Section 9.08.060 of the Municipal Code of the City of
Bakersfield is hereby amended to read as follows:
9.08.060 License Fee Collectors. In order to facilitate
the licensing of dogs in the City of Bakersfield and the collection
of fees thereon, the License Collector, the Health Officer and any
licensed veterinarian is authorized to license any dog, collect
the license fee thereon and issue to the person paying said fee
the dog tag as provided in this chapter. Any duly qualified
person, physician or veterinarian vaccinating a dog with cannine
rabies vaccine shall supply the City or the License Collector
with a copy of the certificate of vaccination,
include the name and address of the dog owner
vaccination, and which copy shall be supplied
License Collector within thirty (30) days after the cannine
rabies vaccine was administered. Any person authorized by the
License Collector to collect a license fee shall account to the
License Collector not less than once each month for all dogs so
licensed and for all license fees collected.
which copy shall
and the date of
to City or the
SECTION 3.
This ordinance shall be posted in accordance with the
City Charter provisions and shall become effective thirty (30)
days from and after the date of its passage.
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I HEREBY CERTIFY
and adopted by the Council of the City of Bakersfield at
meeting thereof held on the 14~h day of October ,
the following vote:
that the foregoing Ordinance was passed
a regular
1981, by
AYES: COUNCILMEN: BARTON, CHRISTENSEN, ~,5ANS, PAYNE, RA]q'Y, ROCKOFF, STRONG
NOES: COUNC].ML~L "~/~,~'~d~ J~
ABSTAINING: COUNCILMEN, ~ ~ ~
c~T~ ¢LER~ a~Ex o~cio ~le~r of
Council of the City of Bakersfield
APPROVED t, his 14th day of October , 1981
/
MAYOR o~e City 6f Bakersfield
APPROVED as to form:
CIT'~ATTO~N~of the Cit~of Bakersfield
Affi avi of osltng ( r inau es
STATE OF CALIFORNIA, }
C~unty of Kern ss.
PHILIP KELMAR, being duly sworn, deposes and says:
That he is the duly appointed, acting and qualified City Clerk of the City of Bakersfield; and
that oa ....................O....c.._~..o....b....e...~._.]__.~ ~ ..................................................................., 19....8...~... he posted on the Bulletin Board
at the City Hall, a full, true and correct copy of an ordinance passed by the Council of said City
at a meeting thereof duly held on ...........qq.~...o_b...9..~_...~.~./. ..............................................19.....8-...3:.., which ordinance
was numberecL.__...2..~ZQ .......................New Series, and entitled:
An Ordinance of the Council of the City of
Bakersfield amending sections 9.08.050 and
9.08.060 of the Bakersfield Municipal Code
providing for Biennial Dog Licenses and
Collection of License Fees.
-- // City Clerk
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
16th day of Oct ober~ ,19 81