HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD NO 2555ORDINANCE NO. 2555
NEW SERIES
AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
BAKERSFIELD AMENDING SECTION 9.08.050(a)
AND (b) OF CHAPTER 9.08 OF THE MUNICIPAL
CODE CHANGING THE DOG L~ENSING PERIOD FROM
ANNUAL TO BI-ANNUAL.
as
BE
follows:
IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Bakersfield
SECTION 1.
and (b) is amended to read as follows:
Section 9.08.050(a)
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, excepting dogs under the
age of four months as provided for in Section 9.08.040, shall pay
to the License Collector a bi-annual license fee in the amount
prescribed by resolution of the Council of the City of Bakersfield.
(b) The license fee prescribed by the City Council shall be
due and payable on the first day of June of every other year, or
as soon thereafter as any dog subject hereto is brought into the
City of Bakersfield, or whenever any dog exempted under subsection
(a) hereof reaches the age of four 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 two dollars ($2.00)
shall be added to the license fee.
Upon exhibition of the proper certificate of vaccination
or a proper certificate or 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 from vaccination the dog tag shall have a
distinguishing mark as evidence of such fact. Said tag, while
attached to 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 vac-
cinated or is exempt from the requirement of vaccination.
SECTION 2.
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 that the foregoing Ordinance was passed
and adopted by the Council of %he City of Bakersfield at a regular
meeting thereof held on the 9th~ day of April _, 1980, by
the following vote:
CITY ~ERK and E~Officio Cler_K. ~o4
Council of the City of Bakers~le-G
the
APPROVED th~s 9th . ~ay of April
' . Bakersfield
, 1980
APPROVED as to form:
CI~Y ATTORNEY of the ci:t/y of Bakersfield
Aff aa ! of J ost ng ( r nan es
STATE OF CALIFORNIA, t
County of Ke~m ss.
H. E. BERGEN, being duly sworn, deposes and says:
That he is the duly appointed, acting and qualified City Clerk of the City of Bakersfield; and
that on ..................../~.]~_~.~_.1.....~ ~:..~. ................................................................, 19..?}..~ 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 .-~I~.~.~J_.._.P. ................................................., 19..~}_0...., which ordinance
was numbered ...... 25.5~ ........... New Series, and entitled:
AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
BAKERSFIELD AMENDING SECTION 9.08.050(a)
AND (b) OF CHAPTER 9.08 OF THE MUNICIPAL
CODE CHANGING THE DOG LICENSING PERIOD FROM
ANNUAL TO BI-ANNUAL.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this