HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD NO 2525ORDINANCE NO. 2525
NEW SERIES
AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
BAKERSFIELD AMENDING CHAPTER 9.08 OF THE MUNICIPAL
CODE BY AMENDING SECTIONS 9.08.010(b), 9.08.010(e),
9.08.050(a) AND (b), 9.08.110 AND ADDING SECTION
9.08.245, RELATIVE TO THE PUBLIC POUND.
BE
as follows:
IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Bakersfield
Sections
as follows:
SECTION 1.
9.08.010(b) and 9.08.010(e) are amended to read
9.08.010(b) "Health Officer" means the duly appointed or acting
officer of the County of Kern, or any person or organization who, by
contract with the City of Bakersfield, has the responsibility of an
animal control officer in charge of a public pound, the licensing of
animals and the impounding of such animals.
9.08.010(e) "License Collector" means the person authorized by
the City to collect a license fee for owning and maintaining a dog
or dogs.
SECTION 2.
Sections 9.08.050(a) and (b) are 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, excepting dogs under the age
of four months as provided for in Section 9.08.040, shall pay to the
License Collector an 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 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 3.
Section 9.08.110 is amended to read as follows:
9.08.110 Vicious Dogs. If it shall be determined by the Health
Officer that the dog is a vicious dog, the Health Officer shall
thereupon order the person who owns or has the custody of said dog
to keep the dog at all times securely fastened by chain, or securely
confined with the private property of such owner or person having
the custody of said dog, or keep said dog in such manner as the
Health Officer shall direct, to prevent it from biting or having the
opportunity of biting any person, including persons lawfully on the
premises where said dog is so fastened or confined, until further
order of the Health Officer. Any violation by the owner or person
having custody of said dog, of the order of the Health Officer,
shall constitute a violation of this chapter. In determining
whether or not said dog is vicious, the Health Officer shall be
guided by the following:
(a) Whether or not the dog has bitten any person or persons at
any time other than the occasion which gave rise to the operation of
Section 9.08.100(a) hereof;
(b)
temper or ferocity of the dog;
(c) The reputation of the dog
its temper and ferocity; and
The circumstances surrounding the occasion indicating the
in the community in regard to
(d) Its general menace to the public. This section shall be
operative even though the dog in question has been vaccinated and
licensed as required by this chapter.
SECTION 4.
Section 9.08.245 is hereby added to read as follows:
9.08.245 Entry on Premises. In the enforcement of this chapter,
Animal Control Officers may enter upon private or public property in
order to issue citations or warnings, to obtain information about a
dog or dogs, to inspect premises for the restraint of dogs deter-
mined to be vicious or to remove dogs from the premises where neces-
sary to impound them.
SECTION 5.
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 the City of Bakersfield at a regular
meeting thereof held on the 19th day of SeDtember , 1979, by
the following vote:
CITY~ERK n~~fOfficio Clerk of the
Council of the City of Bakersfield
MA]~OR~df 't~ae C~ty of Bakersfield
1979
APPROVED as to form:
CITY ATTORNEY of the~ty of Bakersfield
Affi a ! of r uan es
STATE OF CALIFORNIA, f
County of Kern 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 Rakersfield; and
that on ......................................~.~J~.~_m...b..~.~.....~.~. .............................., 19._~.?... he posted on the Bulletin Board
at the City Hall, a full, t~'ue and correct copy of an ordinance passed by the Coundl of said City
at a meeting thereof duly held on .~P.~.~.~.12.~.~....:~:..~..,. ....................................., 19.~..9....., which ordinance
was numbered ...... 25.2.5 ...................New Series, and entitled:
AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
BAKERSFIELD AMENDING CHAPTER 9.08 OF THE MUNICIPAL
CODE BY AMENDING SECTIONS 9.08.010(b), 9.08.010(e),
9.08.050(a) AND (b), 9.08.110 AND ADDING SECTION
9.08.245, RELATIVE TO THE PUBLIC POUND.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
.~..~ ..... day of....~ ....... 19...7~