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ORDINANCE NO. 88
AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR THE REGISTRATION OF DOGS
WITHIN THE CITY OF ARROYO GRANDE, Ah~ PROVIDING PEN~
ALTIES FOR THE VIOLATION THEREOF.
BE IT ORDAINED BY TRE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION ONE. No person shall harbor or keep any dog within
corporate limits of the City of Arroyo Grande except as in this
ordinance provided and unless the same shall be annually
as hereinafter provided and wear attached to its collar a tag as
herein provided.
SECTION ~0. The City Clerk cf~the City of Arroyo Grande shall
annually on the 1st day of July of each year provide, and during
the ensuing year keep in his office a bock designated as "DOG
REGISTER", in which he shall upon the application of any person
owning or having the custody of any dog in said City, and upon the
payment to him of the registration fee hereinafter pres~ribed,
register such dog by en~-,tering in said book its name.,sex and gen-
eral description, the name of its owner or custodian, the number of
the tag issued therefore as hereinafter provided, and the date and
the amount of t he registration fee paid.
SECTION THREE. The City Clerk shall annually o$ or before the
1st day of July of each year procure and during each year keep
constantly on hand a sufficient number of tags of a convenient siz
and shape to be attached to a dog's collar, on which said tags ~haZ
appear the'words "ARROYO GRANDE CITY DOG TAG", together with the
proper year inserted; and at the time each dog is registered under
the proviskions hereof he shall deliver to its owner or custOdima
of such tags. The tags for each year shall be numbered consecutive~
from one upward.
SECTION FOUR. Each dog registered under the provisions of
this ordinance shall wear a collar to which the tag issued at the
time of its registration shall be securely attached.
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SECTION FIVE. On the' first day of July of each year, all prior
~egistrations made under ~the provisions~ of this ordinance shall be
cancelled and all tags there~ofore issued shall become and there-
'after be void and of no effect, and all dogs kept or permitted to'
remain in the City of Arroyo.~Grande must again be registered.
SECTION SIX. For reglst~m~ing each male dog and each sPayed~
dog or bitch, the~CitYm~ Clerk shall collect a fee of '~ne~
~llar~'. $i?!.00) and for registering each unaltered female dog or
open bitch, he'shall collect a fee of Two' Dollars ($2.00), which
fees he shall account for and pay to the City Treasurer in the same
manner as other City money received by him.
SECTION SEVEN. If the tag issued for any duly registered dog
be lost or accidently destroyed during the year it is issued, the
owner or custodian of such dog, upon making proof to the satisfact-
ion of the City Clerk of Its~loss or destruction shall upon payment
of a fee of TwentySFive Cents (25~), receive for such dog another
tag;Thereupon the City Clerk shall enter the number of the tag SO
issued on the register and shall cancel the tag previously issued
for such dog and report the number of the cancelled tag to the pouh
keeper.
SECTION EIGHT. All young, orppppy dogs shall be exempt from th
.ovisions of this o.rdinance until such time as they have been
veaned from their mother.
SECTION NINE. Any person keeping or harboring a dog for fiftee
consecutive days. shall be deemed the owner thereof within the mean-
ing of this ordinance,
SECTION TEN. Every person who shall violate any provision of
this ordinance, and every person who shall counterfeit or imitate
or attempt to imitate or counterfeit any tag required by the pro-
visions of this ordinance; and every person who shall attach to
the collar of any dog or otherwise use or attempt to use in the
City of Arroyo Grande any c'ounterfeit or imitation of such tag sha]
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be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof s~ha~! be
punished by a fine not exceeding ~100 or by imprisonment not ex-
ceeding 20 days or by both such fine and imprisonment.
SECTION ELEVEN. If ~ny section, subsection, sentence, clause
or phrase of thi's ordinance is for any reason held to he invalid
such decision or decisions shall not affect the validly of the
remaining portions of this ordinance. Zt is hereby declared that
this ordinance and e ach section, subsection, sentence clause and
phrase hereof would have been passed or adopted irrespective of the
fact that any one or more. sections, subsections,sentences,clauses
or phrases shall be declared invalid.
SECTION TWELVE. This ordinance shall take effect thirty days
after its passage, and before-fifteen days after its passage, it
s~hatl be published with the names of the members voting forand
against it at least once in the Arroyo Grande Herald Recorder, a
newspaper of general circulation published .and circulated in said
City of Arroyo Grande.
On Motion of Councilman Rountree , seconded by
Councilman $chrAvder , and o$ the following roll call vote
AYES: Councilmen Phillips,Schnyder~Rountree,Clark and Dixson.
NOES:None.
ABSENT:None.
the foregoing ordinance was adopted this ~%h day of N~V , 194
,. ~A . /,~ ~_ '~'Mayor of Arroyo Grand
City Clerk of the City of Arroy~ Grande
(SEAL)