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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance No. 538 AA-el ORDINANCE NO. 538 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF AZUSA, COUNTY OF LOS ANGEJ.FS, STATE OF CALIFORNIA, PROVIDING FOR THE LICENSING, REGULATING, IMPOUNDING, VACCINATION AND REVACCINATION WITH RABIES VACCINE OF ALL DOGS, AND FOR THE CONTROL OF DANGEROUS AND BARKING DOGS, TESTING FOR RABIES OF DOGS THAT HAVE BITTEN HUMAN BEINGS, AND PROVIDING FOR FEES IN CONNECTION WITH IMPOUNDING AND HANDLING OF DOGS AND OTHER ANIMALS AND RESCINDING OF ORDINANCES NO. x+37, x+39 AND 452. The City Council of the City of Azusa does hereby ordain as follows: SECTION 1. Dog, as used herein, shall mean any canine more than four months of age. SECTION 2. Kennel, as used herein, shall mean a place of enclosure where more than three dogs are kept. SECTION 3. Puppy, as used herein, shall mean any canine four months of age or younger. SECTION 4. Dangerous dog, as used herein, shall mean a dog with the propensity to bite human beings. To bite, as used herein, shall mean to bite with the teeth or jaws so as to enter, grip or tear any portion of the anatomy of human beings. It does not include the superficial breaking of the skin as from a nip, or pawing with the feet of a dog. It shall be prima facie evidence that a dog is a dangerous dog when it has bitten more than one human being. SECTION 5. A dog addicted to barking, as used herein, shall mean a dog which barks, either by day or night, loudly and at continuous periods of time so as to be a nuisance to more than one person occupying more than one house in an immediate neighborhood and preventing such persons from the comfortable enjoyment of their homes. Such barking is not limited to barks alone but shall include howling and baying. Provided, however, that a dog is not addicted to barking whenever such dog is in the immediate act of protecting or resisting trespassers upon its premises. The burden of proof of such act of protection or resistance to trespassers by a dog is upon the person owning, harboring, controlling, maintaining, possessing or having charge of said dog. SECTION 6. LIMITATIONS ON NUMBER OF DOGS KEPT. The pro- visions of the Zoning Law of the City of Azusa shall apply to the number of dogs that may be kept by any person within the City of Azusa. SECTION 7. UNLICENSED DOGS UNLAWFUL -- EXEMPTION FROM LICENSE FRES. No person shall keep, or cause to be kept, within the City of Azusa for more than thirty days any dog unless the same is validly licensed as provided by this ordinance, except when such dog is kept in a regularly licensed commercial dog kennel or pet shop. Provided, however, that no license fee shall be required for any dog which shall have served in the Armed Forces of the United States of America and has received an honorable discharge therefrom, and further provided, that no person having defective eyesight shall be required to pay any license fee for any dog specially trained and principally used for the purpose of guiding such person. Provided, further, that such dogs shall be vaccinated and/or revaccinated with rabies vaccine as provided for in this ordinance. -1- • SECTION 8. TAGS FOR ARMED FORCE DOGS AND GUIDE DOGS. The license collector is hereby authorized and directed to provide such honorably discharged dogs and dogs used to guide persons having defective eyesight with suitable license tags without charge therefor, on appli- cation and suitable proof of such service by the owner thereof. SECTION 9. APPLICATION AND FEE. Application for all dog licenses shall be made to the license collector, or his delegated repre- sentative who shall issue such license upon payment therefor of a license fee of Two Dollars ($2.00) for each male dog or spayed dog, and Four Dollars ($4.00) for each female dog. Each applicant for license for spayed dogs shall file with the license collector a certificate signed by such applicant in such form as the license collector shall provide, that such dog is spayed. Each application for license shall specify the sex, breed, color, name and distinguishing markings of the dog, together with the name, address and telephone number of the owner and possessor of the dog and any further information that the license col- lector shall deem necessary. No license shall be issued for any dog or to its owner or possessor unless and until such application is accompanied by the certificate of rabies vaccination as provided in this ordinance showing that such dog has been vaccinated as herein pro- vided within the time limit herein set forth, or unless a certificate of disability is obtained as herein provided. SECTION 10. COST OF LICENSE FOR ONE-HALF OF FISCAL YEAR. In computing the cost of license fee for any dog acquired by its owner or possessor after the 31st day of December of any fiscal year, or brought into the City of Azusa after aforesaid date, then one-half of the regular license fee shall be paid for the remainder of the fiscal year. SECTION 11. RENEWALS, AND ANNUAL RENEWALS OF ALL DOG LICENSES. Dog licenses shall be renewed and the fees due and payable on July 1st of each year and must be paid prior to August 1st of each year. After July 31st of each year a penalty of Two Dollars ($2.00) shall be charged and collected in addition to the license fees collected upon the issuance of a renewal license. A penalty of Two Dollars ($2.00) shall be charged for the issuance of an original license if not applied for within thirty days after the dog is brought within the city limits, or comes into the possession of the owner. All such dogs shall be vaccinated or revaccinated as provided for in this ordinance. All renewals of dog licenses shall be paid for at the rate for the full year as in this ordinance provided. SECTION 12. LICENSES TO BE NUMBERED. All dog licenses shall be numbered and shall be signed by the license collector or his delegated representative, and shall be on such form as shall be provided by the City of Azusa, and shall expire on the 30th day of June after their issuance. All such license fees shall be payable in advance. The license shall show the type of vaccination or revaccination used. SECTION 13. METALLIC TAGS. The license collector shall procure metallic plates or tags, one of which shall be given with each dog license. Such plates or tags shall have inscribed thereon the number of the license with which it shall have been given and the year for which it shall have been issued. The license collector shall keep a record of all licenses issued, a general description of the dog for which each license shall have been issued and the name of the owner or possessor of the dog for which each license shall have been issued. SECTION 14. DUPLICATE TAGS. Whenever any plate or tag as provided herein is lost or stolen the license collector may issue a duplicate therefor upon application therefor and upon payment of Fifty Cents ($.50) and the filing of a certificate by the owner or possessor of such dog to the effect that such tag or plate was lost or stolen. -2- • SECTION 15. LICENSE FROM OTHER JURISDICTIONS. Where a dog has been validly licensed in another jurisdiction, and has been brought into the City of Azusa by its owner for permanent residence, said license and tag may be replaced with an Azusa license and tags ) for the balance of the license year upon payment of a Fifty Cent (( 5 0 transfer fee and the surrender of the former license tag. If such dQg shall have been vaccinated with rabies vaccine in another juris- diction within the time limits prescribed in this ordinance, such license issued shall show the type of vaccine used and date of vacci- nation. Otherwise, such dog shall be vaccinated as provided for in this ordinance. SECTION 16. DANGEROUS DOG, HAVING POSSESSION PROHIBITED. It shall be unlawful for any person in the City of Azusa to keep, cause to be kept, maintain or cause to be maintained, harbored or possessed a dog that is dangerous as defined in this ordinance. SECTION 17. BARKING DOG, HAVING POSSESSION PROHIBITED. It shall be unlawful for any person to keep, cause to be kept, maintain or cause to be maintained or to harbor in the City of Azusa any dog that is addicted to barking as defined in this ordinance. SECTION 18. DOG PACKS PROHIBITED. No person owning or harboring any dog within the City of Azusa, although licensed, shall allow the same to run, or to be at large, within said City of Azusa so that the same does or may run with other dogs in pairs or packs of two or more. Any dog so running at large is hereby declared to be a public nuisance, whether licensed or not, and the Chief of Police, any police officer, or humane officer is hereby directed to abate such nuisance as soon as reported, by impounding such dog or dogs. SECTION 19. MUZZLES AND LEASHES REQUIRED FOR CERTAIN DOGS. (A) No person owning or harboring any Greyhound, Wolfhound, or other dog of a predatory nature within the City of Azusa shall allow or permit such dog, whether licensed or not, to be upon the public streets, or sidewalks, or in the public parks or any public place within the City, except when muzzled and held under leash by an able-bodied person. SECTION 20. DOGS AT LARGE WITHOUT LEASH PROHIBITED. No person owning, harboring, or having charge of, care of, custody or control of any dog shall allow or permit said dog, whether licensed or not, to run at large upon any lane, street, alley, court, or other public place, or upon private property within the limits of the City of Azusa other than those of the person owning, or harboring, or having charge, custody or control of such dog, unless such dog be restrained by a substantial chain or leash and is in charge, care and custody of a competent person. SECTION 21. RABIES. OBLIGATION TO REPORT. Whenever any person owning, harboring, controlling, maintaining, possessing or having charge of any dog, in the City of Azusa, is informed by any person that such dog has bitten a human being, as a bite is defined in this ordinance, he shall forthwith inform or notify the Police Depart- ment of the City of Azusa. Failure to make, or cause to be made such report is unlawful. SECTION 22. NOTICE TO OWNER. Whenever the Police Depart- ment is informed that a dog has bitten a human being, said department shall notify in writing whenever possible, the person owning, con- trolling, maintaining, possessing or having charge of said dog of such fact. A copy of any written notice shall be given or delivered to the Health Officer. If no written notice is given then a notifi- cation shall be made to the Health Officer. -3- SECTION 23. RABIES. DOG TO BE CONFINED. Any person owning, controlling, maintaining, possessing, or having charge of a dog that has bitten a human being shall immediately confine such do in a safe and humane manner, to such person's premises for fifteen (15) days upon the written or oral order of a Health Officer of the City of Azusa. During such period of confinement any Health Officer of the City of Azusa may enter said premises to inspect or test said dog for rabies. SECTION 24. RABIES. PERMITTING DOG TO RUN AT LARGE. It shall be unlawful for any person to permit, or cause to permit, or allow said confined dog to run at large upon any street or upon private property other than that of its owner or possessor during such period of confinement. It shall be unlawful for any person to remove said confined dog from the City of Azusa without first obtaining written permission from the Health Officer of said City. SECTION 25. RABIES. INTERFERING WITH OFFICER MAKING TEST. It shall be unlawful for any person owning, controlling, maintaining, possessing, or having charge of any dog that has bitten a human being to interfere, delay, obstruct any Health Officer in conducting any test for rabies of said dog. SECTION 26. RELEASE AFTER TEST. At the expiration of fifteen (15) days of observation and test for rabies it shall appear said dog does not have rabies then such observation or test and con- finement shall cease. The Health Officer is empowered to shorten this period of confinement whenever in his judgment such dog does not have rabies. SECTION 27. DESTRUCTION OF DOG FOUND TO HAVE RABIES. Whenever said confined dog or any other dog has rabies the Health Officer or any police officer of the City of Azusa shall cause said dog to be destroyed. It shall be removed to a pound where it shall shall be destroyed, except when the person owning, controlling, main- taining, possessing or having charge of said dog gives his written or oral permission to destroy said dog upon the premises, in which case it may be destroyed upon the premises. It is unlawful for any person within the City of Azusa to harbor, maintain, or cause to be maintained, have control of, possess any dog that has rabies and refuse and neglect to comply with this Section. The certificate of a Health Officer shall be deemed sufficient to designate said dog as a dog afflicted with rabies and as such is a public nuisance dangerous to public health and safety. Such a dog is hereby declared to be a public nuisance dangerous to public health and safety. The Health Officer and the Chief of Police or any police officer of the City of Azusa is hereby directed to abate such nuisance. SECTION 28. DOG THAT HAS BITTEN HUMAN BEING. IMPOUNDING. Any dog found running at large upon any street of the City of Azusa or upon private property other than the owner or possessor, whether licensed or not, that has bitten a human being, shall be impounded by the Chief of Police, any police or humane officer, or any person in the City Pound for observation and test. Such dog shall be impounded for fifteen (15) days unless the Health Officer is his judgment sooner declares said dog free from rabies. Such dog may be removed to a con- venient pound for observation and test for rabies. If such dog is found not to have rabies the person owning, controlling, maintaining, possessing or having charge of said dog may redeem same upon payment of such fees as are provided for in this ordinance. Whenever such dog is not redeemed at the expiration of such observation and test it may be sold for the best price obtainable or destroyed. When such dog is found to have rabies it shall be forthwith destroyed. -4- • SECTION 29. VACCINATION OF DOGS REQUIRED. Every person keeping, harboring or having a dog over the age of four (4) months in the City shall cause such dog to be vaccinated with rabies vaccine within a period of thirty (30) days from the date of harboring, keep- ing or having said dog within the City, or from the date said dog attains the age of four (4) months; provided, however, that the aforesaid pro- vision shall not apply so as to require the vaccination of any dog which has been vaccinated with a chick embryo vaccine by a person licensed by the State of California, or by any other state or nation, to practice veterinary medicine where such vaccination has been completed within the period of time as hereinafter prescribed in this ordinance. If chick embryo vaccine was used in such vaccination, it must have been completed within two years prior to the date such dog was kept, har- bored or brought into the City. If tissue phenolized vaccine was used, such vaccination must have been completed within one year prior to the date such dog was kept, harbored or brought into the City. SECTION 30. REVACCINATION. (A) Every person keeping, harboring or having a dog in the City which has been vaccinated with chick embryo vaccine shall cause such dog to be revaccinated within a period of not more than two years after such prior vaccination. (B) Every person keeping, harboring, or having a dog in said City which has been vaccinated with tissue phenolized vaccine shall cause such dog to be revaccinated with rabies vaccine within a period of not more than one year after such prior vaccination. SECTION 31. VACCINATION CERTIFICATE. Every person practicing veterinary medicine in the City of Azusa who vaccinates a dog with rabies vaccine shall issue to the person keeping, harboring or having such dog a certificate which is signed by said veterinarian and which states thereon the name and description of said dog, the date of such vaccina- tion and type of vaccine used and shall send a duplicate copy thereof to the dog license collector. Provided, however, that a duly licensed vet- erinarian administering the vaccine named in this ordinance, for the purpose of compliance with this ordinance, need not reside nor maintain a place of business in the City. SECTION 32. VACCINATION NOT REQUIRED WHEN DISABILITY SHOWN. Whenever any dog should not be vaccinated or revaccinated with rabies vaccine by reason of age, infirmity or other disability a certi- ficate from a duly licensed veterinarian shall be furnished the license collector, who thereupon will issue an original or renewal license upon payment of the proper fee. The certificate shall be filed with the license record of the license collector. SECTION 33. VACCINATION OF DOGS SOLD BY KENNELS OR PET SHOPS. Whenever any dog kennel or pet shop, duly licensed by the City, sells any dog over four (4) months of age such dog shall be vaccinated as provided in this ordinance, except when such dog will be or is to be removed forthwith from the City. . SECTION 34. VACCINATION OF DOGS IMPOUNDED. Whenever any dog impounded for any reason or as a stray is redeemed at the City Pound and said dog will thereafter remain within the City, said dog will not be released until it shall have been vaccinated with rabies vac- cine as provided in this ordinance. The person redeeming said dog shall pay, in advance of release, to the pound master the necessary fee to cover the vaccination. The poundmaster may remove said dog to the nearest veterinarian for such vaccination. The poundmaster shall demand and collect a license fee for said dog, including any penalty fee as provided in this ordinance, whenever it is determined said dog has not been currently and validly licensed. All impound fees shall likewise be due and payable. -5- SECTION 35. FEMALES, PERIODIC RESTRAINT. It shall be unlawful for any person to permit any female dog to run at large when in heat. Any female dog so running at large is hereby declared a public nuisance, whether licensed or not, and the humane or any police officer of the City is hereby directed to abate any such nuisance, as soon as reported, by impounding such dog. SECTION 36. DOG POUND. The Chief of Police or a person designated by him shall maintain a suitable enclosure at the public pound for the keeping of all dogs impounded as provided herein. SECTION 37. POUNDMASTER'S DUTIES. (A) The Chief of Police, poundmaster or humane officer, or any police officer shall seize and impound any and all dogs running at large on any street or upon private property other than that of the person owning, keeping or controlling said dog, and shall keep such dogs at and in the public pound until they shall have either been redeemed, released or humanely destroyed as provided in this ordinance. (B) Whenever this ordinance provides that the Chief of Police, poundmaster, humane or any police officer shall humanely destroy any dog such dog shall be destroyed in such manner as is recognized as humane by non-profit humane societies or by such cities publicizing and conducting humane destruction of dogs and other animals. Whenever any dog or other animal is so seriously injured on a public street said dog or animal may be destroyed forthwith. SECTION 38. RIGHT OF ENTRY UPON PRIVATE PROPERTY. The Health Officer, Chief of Police, poundmaster, any police officer or humane officer shall be 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 and if said dog has been validly vaccinated with rabies vac- cine as provided for in this ordinance. SECTION 39. NOTICE AND DISPOSITION OF DOGS AND ANIMALS. The Chief of Police, poundmaster, or humane officer shall post in at least two (2) public places in the City of Azusa, within twenty-four (24) hours after he shall have impounded any dog, written notices describing accurately each dog or animal impounded and setting forth that unless such dog or animal be redeemed within two (2) days thereafter, he will sell or humanely destroy such dog or animal. One of such notices shall be posted on a bulletin board in front of the City Hall and one at the Police Department. At any time after the expiration of such period of two (2) days the Chief of Police, poundmaster or humane officer may without further notice and without advertising in any manner, sell at private sale or public auction to the highest bidder for cash any dog not redeemed as aforesaid. All dogs impounded, as strays or running at large, and not redeemed or sold shall forthwith be humanely destroyed by the Chief of Police, poundmaster, humane officer or by a humane society. SECTION 40. POUND REGISTER OR RECORD. The Chief of Police, poundmaster or humane officer shall keep a register or record in which he will set forth a correct statement of all dogs impounded by him, the date when each dog was impounded, the reason therefor, the description of each dog, the date of posting of each notice, the date of redeeming any dog, the date of disposition of any dog, the name of the new owner of any dog, and the date of destroying any dog. SECTION 41. POUND FEES FOR DOGS IMPOUNDED FOR RUNNING AT LARGE. (A) No dog, impounded as a stray dog or as a dog running at large, whether licensed or not, may be redeemed except upon payment to the Chief of Police, poundmaster or the humane officer of the following -6- • fees : for impounding dog the sum of One Dollar ($1.00); for feeding dog the sum of One Dollar ($1.00) per day or portion of day during which dog shall have been impounded in the public pound; and for posting notices Twenty-Five Cents ($.25) per notification or notice posted. (B) The following charges shall be made to the owner of dogs or other animals for the disposition thereof: (1) Disposition of one dog or cat, $1.00; (2) Disposition of puppies, 500 each up to 3, and 250 for each additional one; (3) Disposition of kittens, 500 each up to 3, and 250 for each additional one; (4) Other animals - such reasonable charge as may be determined by the Chief of Police or humane officer, or pound or non-profit humane society to cover the cost of disposition. (C) The rate provided for herein may be changed by action of the City Council by resolution duly adopted. (d) Any and all monies collected under the provisions of this ordinance shall be turned into the City Treasurer for deposit in the General Fund of the City of Azusa. SECTION 42. POUND FEES FOR DOGS IMPOUNDED THAT HAVE BITTEN A HUMAN BEING. No dog impounded, whether licensed or not, pursuant to the provisions of this ordinance that has bitten a human being and is impounded for observation and test may be redeemed except upon payment to the Chief of Police, humane officer or person in charge of a pound where such dog is impounded of the following fees : for impounding dog the sum of One Dollar ($1.00) ; for feeding dog the sum of One Dollar and Twenty-Five Cents ($1.25) per day or portion of day during which such dog shall have been impounded in said pound. SECTION 43. INFORMALLY ARRANGE WITH A POUND OR HUMANE SOCIETY TO CARE FOR DOGS AND OTHER ANIMALS. The Chief of Police is authorized to informally arrange with any pound or non-profit humane society for the impounding of stray dogs or other animals. When any stray dog or dog running at large or other animal bites a human being, the Chief of Police may provide for the observation and tests for rabies at any pound or non-profit humane society. He shall recommend to the City Council the fees to be charged for redeeming such dogs or other animals. The City Council may by resolution from time to time change the rate of fees to be charged, and provide for the payment to any pound or non-profit humane society of charges to be paid by the City of Azusa for the impounding, feeding, observation and tests to be made of said dogs or other animals for rabies. SECTION 44. RESIST, OBSTRUCT OR HINDER ENFORCEMENT OF THIS ORDINANCE. No person shall resist, obstruct, or in any way hinder the Chief of Police, humane officer, poundmaster or health officer in the performance of his duties under this ordinance, or take or remove any dog from the possession of the Chief of Police, humane officer, pound- master or health officer, or out of the public pound, ar any pound or humane society wherein any dog is impounded under the provisions of this ordinance, until the observation and tests for rabies shall have been completed and in addition until the redemption fees are fully paid, nor shall any person remove any license tag from any dog without the permission of the owner thereof, or the person having control thereof. -7- SECTION 45. PROCLAMATION BY MAYOR OF PREVALENCE OF RABIES. Whenever it shall come to the knowledge of the Mayor that rabies or hydrophobia is prevalent• among dogs or other animals within or near the City of Azusa, he shall issue and publish a proclamation in the official newspaper of the City declaring the existence of rabies or hydrophobia, and prohibiting all dogs at large unless on a leash and adequately muzzled; also requiring unleashed and unmuzzled dogs in or on private property which is open to the public to be confined in a separate enclosure on such property. SECTION 46. AFTER PROCLAMATION PUBLISHED DOGS TO BE MUZZLED AND HELD ON LEASH. Immediately upon the publication of such proclama- tion as provided in this ordinance, no person owning, possessing, con- trolling, or harboring any dog in the City of Azusa shall allow such dog to run or be at large on any public street, or place, unless such dog be on leash or chain and properly muzzled, and all unleashed and unmuzzled dogs in or on private property which is open to the public, shall be confined in a separate enclosure on such property. The muzzle used on each dog shall be securely fastened around the dog's head in such manner that it will completely surround the jaws and nose of the dog on which it is fastened, and be constructed of sufficient strength and fitted in such a way as to prevent the dog from biting any person or other animal. SECTION 47. PROVISIONS OF PROCLAMATION TO REMAIN IN EFFECT UNTIL DANGER FROM RABIES HAS PASSED. After issuance of the proclamation provided for in this ordinance the provisions thereof shall be, continue and remain in full force and effect until the publication of another proclamation by the Mayor declaring all danger from rabies or hydro- phobia shall have passed. SECTION 48. CONTRACTING FOR POUND SERVICE AUTHORIZED. Nothing contained in this ordinance shall prohibit the City Council from contracting with any other public body or non-profit organization for administering this ordinance and operating the animal shelter where impounded animals are kept. SECTION 49. PENALTIES OF ORDINANCE. Any person violating or failing to comply with any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by imprisonment in the City Jail or in the County Jail for a period not to exceed six months, or by fine of not to exceed Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) , or by both such fine and imprisonment. SECTION 50. EFFECT OF ORDINANCE. If any section, subsection, sentence, or clause or phrase of this ordinance is for any reason held to be unconstitutional, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this ordinance. The City Council hereby declares that it would have passed this ordinance and each section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, subsections, sentences, clauses or phrases be declared unconstitutional. SECTION 51. REPEAL OF ORDINANCES. Ordinances Nos. 437, 439 and 452 are hereby repealed, and all ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict with or inconsistent with the provisions of this ordinance are hereby repealed, except that this repeal shall not affect or prevent the prosecution or punishment of any person for any act done or committed in violation of any ordinance hereby repealed prior to the taking effect of this ordinance. SECTION 52. AUTHENTICATION. The Mayor of the City of Azusa is hereby ordered to sign this ordinance and the City Clerk is hereby ordered and directed to certify as to the passage hereof, and to cause -8- the same to be published once in the Azusa Herald and Pomotropic, a newspaper of general circulation, published and circulated in the City of Azusa. This ordinance shall be in effect thirty (30) days after the passage thereof. of the�it Mayor y of Azusa ATTEST: City Clerk of the City of Azusa STATE OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES SS. CITY OF AZUSA I, JAMES MTT.T.RR, City Clerk of the City of Azusa, do hereby certify that the foregoing ordinance was duly and ZagulaxIlyr passed and adopted by the City Council of the City of Azusa at its regular meeting held on the 20th day of May , 1957, by the following vote: AYES: Councilmen: Fawcett, Johnson, Romero, Memmesheimer NOES: Councilmen: Ortuno ABSENT:Councilmen: None ty Clerk STATE OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES SS. CITY OF AZUSA I, JAMES MTLT.F,R, City Clerk of the City of Azusa, Los Angeles County, California, ., . ereby certify that the foregoing ordinance was duly introduced at a f-+ 04, eeting of the City Council of the City of Azusa, on the 14th day of Mesar , 1957, and that the said ordinance was duly and reg—ularly passed and adopted by the City Council, signed and approved by the Mayor, attested by the City Clerk, at a regular meeting; that the same was passed and adopted by the following vote of the Council: AYES: Councilmen: Fawcett, Johnson, Romero, Memmesheimer NOES: Councilmen: Ortuno ABSENT:Councilmen: None I do hereby certify that I caused said ordinance to be published prior to the expiration of 15 days after the passage thereof in the Azusa Herald and Pomotropic, a newspaper of general circulation, printed, published and circulated in the City of Azusa, and the same was published in accordance with law. Cbrli: y ity Clerk, City of Azusa -9- Publish Azusa Herald & Pomotropic - May 27, 1957