HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance No. 844 ORDINANCE NO. 6174 '1-
AN
'fAN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
AZUSA AMENDING THE AZUSA MUNICIPAL CODE BY THE
ADDITION THERETO OF PROVISIONS PROHIBITING THE
KEEPING OF WILD AND DANGEROUS ANIMALS, POISONOUS
REPTILES OR BEES, DECLARING THE SAME TO BE AN
URGENCY MEASURE AND RECITING THE FACTS CONSTITUTING
SUCH URGENCY.
The City Council of the City of Azusa does ordain as
follows:
SECTION 1. The Azusa Municipal Code is hereby amended by the
addition thereto of a new Section 4275 reading as follows:
"SECTION 4275. Keeping Wild and Dangerous Animals, Poisonous
Reptiles and Bees Prohibited. No person shall keep, maintain,
raise, harbor or liberate within the City any wild and dangerous
animal, any poisonous reptile or any bees.
This section shall not apply to the transportation of any
such animal, reptile or bees through the City provided adequate and
secure safeguards are taken to prevent the escape thereof and to
protect the public nor shall this section apply to any circus, show
or temporary event involving the display of such animals, reptiles or
bees while the same is legally located and permitted within the
City."
SECTION 2. The ordinance is urgently needed for the
immediate preservation of the public peace, health and safety. A
declaration of the facts constituting such urgency is as follows :
certain persons are now keeping and harboring within the City certain
rattlesnakes and bees; within the past few days a person has been
bitten by one such rattlesnake; and said animals, snakes and bees
constitute an imminent and present threat and danger to the people of
the City.
Approved and passed this 6th day of July, 1965.
yor
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES SS.
CITY OF AZUSA
I, JAMES MILLER, City Clerk of the City of Azusa, do hereby
certify that the foregoing Ordinance No. 844 was regularly introduced
and passed at a regular meeting of the City Council on the 6th day
of July , 1965, by the following vote, to wit :
AYES: Councilmen: Rubio, Cooney, Solem, McLees, Memmesheimer
NOES: Councilmen: None
ABSENT:Councilmen: None ,
City Clerk
I do further certify that I caused said Ordinance to be
published prior to the expiration pf fifteen days from the passage
thereof in the Azusa Herald and Pomotropic, a newspaper of general
circulation, printed, published and circulated in the City of Azusa,
on the 11th day of July , 1965, and that the same was published in
accordance with law.
City Clerk1
Published Azusa Herald and Pomotropic, July 11, 1965