Loading...
HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance No. 381ORDINANCE N0. 381 AN ORDINANCE REGULATING THE LICENSING OF DOGS, MUZZLINd AND RESTRAINT OF DOGS AT CERTAIN TIMES PROVIDING FOR THE CONTROL AND.'-h71A751CAT:r4N .OF',_RA131ES IN THE CITY OF AZUSA AND REPEALING ORDINANCES NOS. 304 AND 306, AND REPEALING ALL OTHER ORDINANCES AND PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT HERETJITH. The City Council of the City of Azusa does ordain as follows: SECTION 1. Wherever in this ordinance the words °Health Officer" are used, they shall be construed to mean "Health Officer or his representative.' SECTION 2. Every person, association or corporation owning or harboring a dog within the corporate limits of Azusa, California shall pay to the Chief of Police of the City of Azusa an annual license fee of $1.00 for each male or spade female dog and $,`2.00 for each unspade female dog. SECTION 3. The owner of any dog licensed as afore- said shall securely fasten about the neck of the dog a collar with the license cut or engraved thereon or a tag attached thereto bearing the number of such license. SECTION 4. The Chief of Police shall give to each person paying such license aforesaid a receipt stating the amount and date of payment and the date of expiration of such license, and containing a brief description of the dog, and he shall furnish the owner a numbered metal tag, unless the owner prefers to cut or engrave the number directly upon the dog collar. r SECTION 5. The Chief of Police shall keep a register of all licenses issued, showing the name of the licensee, date of issuance, date .of expiration, description of the dog, and the number of the tag. SECTION 6. Every dog found running at large without a number, collar or license tag, as required by this Ordinance, shall be by the Chief of Police or someone designated by him, impounded at the City Pound and kept for a period of 72 hours within which time if the ownership of the dog is proven and the owner calls for it he shall be able to remove it; on the payment of $1.00 which shall go to the credit of the City Pound and (a) If such dog is licensed and the collar bearing the license number is lost or the license tag is lost upon the replacement of such, at the expense of the owner, (b) If such dog is unlicensed upon the payment to him of the license fee in accordance with the provisions -1- r of Section 2 hereof, and thereupon such owner so reclaiming such dog shall be entitled to a license and -numbered tag as provided in Section 2 hereof. And if the ownership is not proven viibhin such time, then such dog shall be destroyed in a humane manner under the direction of the City Pound Master. But the Chief of Police may give or sell any unredeemed dog that he would by this ordinance be authorized to destroy to any person who will procure for such dog the necessary collar or collar and tag with license number thereon. SECTION 7. Upon the receipt by the Pound Master of any dog, if the said Pound Master shall have reason to believe that the same is afflicted with rabies or has been bitten by any dog afflicted or suspected with being afflicted with rabies, or has been exposed to the infection of rabies, the�said Pound Master shall separately confine and keep so confined such dog and shall immediately notify the City Health Officer thereof. The City Health Officer shall thereupon make such examination of such dog as the said Health Officer may deem necessary. If, upon such examination, the City Health Officer shall determine that such dog.is afflicted with rabies, he shall so notify.the said Pound Master and the said Pound Master shall kill such dog at such time and in the manner directed by the said City Health Officer. It shall be the duty of the Pound Iuiaster to keep every such dog suspected of having rabies so confined for such time as the City Health Officer may direct, and such dog shall not be redeemed or released except upon an order in writing signed by the City Health officer. Nothing in this ordinance shall be construed as permitting the redemption of any dog having or suspected of having or having been infected with rabies. SECTION 8. It shall be the duty of the Pound Master, his deputy, the Chief of Police and each of his deputies, and of every police officer and special officer of the City of Azusa, to impound or destroy any dog found in or upon any public street, alley or other public place, or in or upon any lot or premises, known to have rabies or known to have been bitten by any dog having rabies. SECTION 9. It shall be unlawful for any person to interfere with or oppose or resist the Chief of Police or any of his officers, Pound Master or his deputy, or the City Health Officer or any member or employee of the Health Department while engaged in the performance of the duties pertaining to the enforcement of this ordinance, all of which said officers, members and employees are hereby empowered to enforce all of the provisions of this ordinance. SECTION 10. The City Health Officer employed by the City Health Department is hereby empowered to enter upon any private property for the purpose of ascertaining whether any dog kept or harbored therein is afflicted with rabies or whether or not a license tag has been secured for said dog. -2- SECTION 11. Any person owning or harboring a dog who neglects or refuses to have the same x-xx3ckxm mdxx2at licensed as herein provided shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished as herein provided. SECTION 12, The City Council may by proclamation require the owners of all dogs to securely muzzle them with wire muzzles of such design as may be approved by the City Council, for such length of time as the City Council may designate, and whenever in the opinion of the City Council there exists a reasonable necessity for such muzzling as a protection to the public safety, and all unmuzzled dogs running at large during such proclamation may be destroyed by the Chief of Police and by those designated by him, provided the City Council shall by proclamation state that in their opinion the public safety demands that such dogs unmuzzled and running at large during such period shall be destroyed. In addition to such muzzling of dogs the City Council may also, under such proclamation, order the retention of all dogs on the owner's premises or at designated public, places such as veterinary estab- lishments and such proclamation may include muzzling such dogs while so restrained. SECTION 13. Ido biting, vicious or dangerous dog shall be harbored, kept or suffered to be kept or suffered to be at large within said city unless the same be securely muzzled. Whenever such biting, vicious or dangerous dog shall be outside the enclosure of its owner or keeper without being so muzzled, it shall be deemed to be a public nuisance and may be killed by any peace officer, whether said dog be licensed, registered and numbered or otherwise. SECTION 14. All monies collected by the Chief of Police for licenses, and fees shall by him be paid into the City Treasury for the general fund, and all expenses incurred in carrying out or enforcing the provisions of this ordinance shall be paid out of the general fund. SECTION 15. Notwithstanding the provisions of this ordinance, the provisions relating to licensing shall not apply to dogs under six (6) months of age; provided they are kept within enclosures and are not allowed to run at large. SECTION 16. Whenever the owner or the person having the custody or possession of an animal shall observe or learn that such animal shows symptoms of rabies, or acts in a manner which would lead to a reasonable suspicion that it may have rabies, he shall immediately notify the Health Officer, or his representative, to make an inspection or examination of such animal until it shall be established to the satisfaction of said official that such animal has or has not rabies. -3- SECTION 17. Whenever it is suspected that any dog has bitten any person, the owner or person having the custody or possession thereof, shall, upon order of the Health Officer, quarantine it and keep it isolated in a secure enclosure and on a chain until released by order of such Health Officer, and allow such Health Officer or his representative to make an inspection or examination thereof at any time during such period. SECTION 18. I£ it shall appear to the Health Officer, upon examination or otherwise, of a dog or other animal, that such dog, or other animal has rabies, he shall forthwith impound for observation such dog or other animal until released. by such Health Officer. SECTION 19. Whenever any animal shall be bitten by another animal suspected of having rabies, the owner or person having the custody or possession of the animal so bitten, shall Immediately notify the Health Officer of said city and thereupon, in the discretion of such Health Officer, such dog or other animal so bitten, may be quarantined for a period to be determined by the Health Officer. SECTION 20. That any person, firm or corporation violating any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punishable by a fine.of not less than two dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the city jail for a period of not less than one (1) day nor more than fifty (50) days, or by both such fine and imprisonment. Each such person, firm or corporation shall be deemed guilty of a separate offense for every day during any portion of which any violation of any provisions of this ordinance is committed, continued or permitted by such person, firm or corporation, and shall be punishable therefor as provided by this ordinance. SECTION 21. Ordinance No. 304 entitled "AN ORDINAME OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF AZUSA IMPOSING A LICENSE TAX UPON DOGS AND REGULATING THE RUNNING AT LARGE, LICENSING AND IMPOUNDING OF DOGS AND ALSO PROVIDING FOR THE CONTROL AND ERADICATION OF RABIES WITHIN SAID CITY OF AZUSA" passed December 4, 1943 and Ordinance No. 306 entitled "AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF AZUSA AMENDING SECTION ONE OF ORDINANCE NO. 304 ENTITLED 'AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF AZUSA IMPOSING A LICENSE TAX UPON DOGS AND REGULATING THE RUNNING AT LARGE, LICENSING AND IMPOUNDING OF DOGS AND ALSO PROVIDING FOR THE CONTROL AND ERADICATION OF RABIES WITHIN SAID CITY OF AZUSAI AND ADDING A NEW SECTION -TO SAID ORDIN- ANCE NO. 304 OF THE CITY OF AZUSA TO 13E KNOWN AS SECTION lin approved February 19,.1934 and all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are hereby approved. ZIE hazard and also finds that neither adequate equipment nor facilities are available for the disposal of such rubbish in a manner conforming with Article II, he may prescribe other and different standards not more onerous applicable either to named classes of rubbish disposal or persons, or to .the operations of separate persons. Section 24. The Director may revoke or modity any order permitting a variation after a public hearing held upon not less than ten days notice. Section 25. The Director shall servenotice of the time and place of a hearing to revoke or modify any order permitting a variation not less than ten days prior to such hearing upon all persons who will be subjected to greater restrictions if such order is revoked or modified as proposed and upon all other persons who have filed with the director a written request for such notification, either in the manner required by law for the service of summons or by first class mail postage prepaid. Section 26. The Director in making any order permitting a variation may specify the time during which such order will be effective, which in 'no event shall be longer than six months after the termination of the war in which the United States is now engaged. Section 27. Unless an earlier date is specified in the order, every order permitting a variation shall expire six (6) months after the termination of the war in which the United States is now engaged. Section 28. The Chief of Police of the City of Azusa Is hereby designated as Director of Air Pollution Control with the powers and duties in this ordinance granted to such Director and the Deputy Chief of Police of the City of Azusa is hereby appointed and designated as Deputy Director of Air Pollution with all the power and duties of the Director when said Director shall be absent from the City. Section 29. The It2ayor shall sign this ordinance and the City Clerk shall attest the same and certify to the passage, adoption and publication thereof and shall cause the same to be published once, within fifteen days after its passage, in the -5- Azusa Herald and Pomotropic, a weekly newspaper of general circulation printed, published and circulated in the City of Azusa, which said newspaper is hereby designated for that purpose, and thenceforth and thereafter this ordinance shall be in full force and effect. ATTEST: DEAE A. H S City Clerk bf e City of Azusa Passed, approved an a pted this / � , day of , 1946. -6- STATE OF CALIFORNIA SS COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) I, Mae A. Hynes, City Clerk of the City of Azusa, Los Angeles County, California, do hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance was duly introduced, placed upon its first reading and fully read at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Azusa held on June 17, , 1946, in the regular Council Chambers of said City Council in said City; that thereafter said Ordinance was duly and regularly passed and adopted by said Council, signed and approved by the Mayor and attested by the City Clerk of said City, at xOx _ a Regular , meeting of said Council so held in the regular Council Chambers of said City Council on _,7uly i , 1946, and that the same was passed and adopted by the following vote of the Council: AYES: Councilmen: Nasser, Memmesheimer, Malone, Lamm NOES: None ABSENT: Councilman: Jumper I DO FURTHER CERTIFY that I caused said Ordinance to be published prior to the expiration of fifteen days from the passage thereof in the Azusa Herald and Pomotropic on JiiiE 11 , 1946, a newspaper of general circulation, printed, published and circulated in said City of Azusa, and that the same was published in accordance with law. ?nae % N City Clerk of the C y of Azusa