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HomeMy WebLinkAbout449 - Dog LicensingORDINANCE NO. 449 other appointed to perform they AN duty, shall take up such dog and ORDINANCE OF THE CITY keep the same in some safe place OF NEWPORT BEACH, BY for forty -eight (43) hours and if THE CITY COUNCIL AS THE by the end of thr time no person" LEGISLATIVE BODY THERE- shall appear to claim such dog, • OF, IMPOSING AN ANNUAL and pay the Chief of Police for' TAX UPON DOGS KEPT OR the use of the city, the sum of HARBORED W I T H 1 N THE $1.00 to cover the expense of im- CORPORATE LIMITS OF SAID pounding and keeping such dog, CITY, PRESCRIBING RULES and also pay any license fee then • FOR THE COLLECTION OF SAID TAX, FORBIDDING THE due on such dog, it shall then be the duty the Chief KEEPING OR HARBORING OF of of Police to cause such dog to be killed and. VICIOUS DOGS AND PROVID. buried and thereby abate such ING FOR THE IMPOUNDING nuisance. AND KILLING OF STRAY SECTION 5. It is hereby de- AND UNLICENSED DOGS Glared unlawful for any person or AND IMPOSING A PENALTY persons owning, harboring or FOR THE KEEPING OR HAR- keeping a vicious dog, to permit BORING OF UNLICENSED OR such dog to run at large upon the VICIOUS DOGS. public streets, alfeye, highways or parks of said City, or, upon the The City Council_ of the City of private property of others. with - Newport Beach does ordain as out having said dog on leash or follows: muzzled, and such vicious dogs, SECTION 1. An annual license wb�n running at large, are hereby tax of $2.00 is hereby imposed declared to , be a nuisance nnd. upon each male dog, and $2.00 dangerous t'o public health and upon each female dog kept, owned safety, and it shall be the duty of or, harbored in the City of New- any officer of said City of New- port Beach, and all licenses issued port Beach to forthwith abate such gursuant to this ordinance shall nuisance by killing such dog or be paid in advance and shall, be dogs. • as of date of the issuance by the SECTION 6. Any person vic- City' Clerk and shall be counter- lating any of the provisions of the signed by the City Clerk and Chief foregoing sections of this ordin- of Police. ante, resisting or obstructing their SECTION 2. No dogs shall be enforcement, releasing or inciting kept or harbored within the cor- another to release any impounded porate limits of the City of New- dog, without the payment of the port. Beach after this ordinance license tax and penalties. counter - shall go into effect, that shall feiting any tax tags provided for have attained the age of six (6) in this Ordinance, or whoc6mmits weeks or more, unless the owner any of the sets therein declared or person keeping, owning or har- to be unlawful and prohibited. or boring the same shall have paid who neglects or refuses to,do and an annua_ tax of $2.00 upon each perform the duties therein requir- . dog kept, owned or harbored by him within the Citv of Newport ed of him, is guilty of a misde- meanor Beach. At the time and upon the conviction of payment of thereof by a Court of competent said license tax the person owning, , jurisdiction ahah be punished by harboring or keeping said dog a fine not exceeding §50.00 or by shall provide a collar of some imprisonment in the City Jail for durable material to which a tag a term not exceeding fifty (50) furnished by the City of Newport days, or by both such fine and im- Beach shall be attached, contain- prisonment, in the discretion of ing the number assigned to such the Court. dog, provided, however, that noth- SECTION 7. This ordinance ing in this ordinance shall be con- , shall be printed and published once strued as authorizing any person in NEWPORT NEWS, a news- to harbor a vicious dog in said City, paper printed, published and cfr -, culated in 6f 'Newport SECTION 3.' It shall be the the city Beach, duty of the City Clerk to procure, and shall take effect and be in force thirty (30) days at the expense of the City, and de- after' its passage. liver to the officer charged wits, the SECTION $. All ordinances or collection of the dog license tax, such number of suitable tags parts of ordinances in conflict with the provisions of this ordin- as may be required for the en- forcemeat since, are hereby repealed. of this ordinance, said The above and fore -doing ordin -, tags shall be numbered consecu- tively ante was iniroduced;at an. ad- so as to correspond with the stub of the journed regular .meeting of rile receipt of the li- City Council of the City of New - cense collected from each persdd Paying the same, port Beach held on the 27th day and the officer of July, 1936, and was finally pass - charged with the collection of such ed and adopted on the 3rd day license tax shall give to each per - of August, 1936, by said City Council son from whom such tax is col- lected, at a regular meeting thereof, by a receipt therefor, also to deliver to the owner or the the following vote, to -wit: person paying the same, a tag bearing the A Y E 5: Councilmen Gordon, Claire, Whitson, Garfield, William` same number as appears upon son. such receipt and stub, and such tag or plate shall be good only for NOES: Councilmen None. ABSENT: Councilmen the year for which it is issued, None. • and it will be unlawful to The above and foregoing ordin- , continue the use of such tags beyond a.nce is signed and approved by ' such time without renewal of the license. me this 3rd day of Augnst- 1936, SECTION 4. Each HARRY H. WILLIAMSON, • dog kept, owned or harbored contrary to Mayor of the City of the provisions of this ordinance, and Newport Beach. Attest: every stray dog. shall be deemed F'RAN$ L RINEHART, and is hereby declared to be a public City Clerk of the City of nuisance and the Chief of Police acting in Newport Beach. person or by an- (Sea]) Pub.- -Aug. 6, 1936.