HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrd 0892ORDINANCE NO. �t92
AMENDING §§9.04.010 AND 9.04.020 AND ADDING
§§9.04,011 AND 9.04.012 TO THE MUNICIPAL CODE
INCREASING DOG LICENSE, IMPOUND AND BOARDING
FEES, AND PROVIDING E)MIIIPTIONS FROM DOG
LICENSE REQUIREMENTS
The City Council of the City of Burlingame does ordain
as follows:
Section 1: §9.04.010 of the Municipal Code is amended
to read and provide as follows:
1 59.04.010 Dog License Required: Except as provided in
§9.04.012, it shall be unlawful for any person to own,
keep, harbor, possess or control any dog within the City
of Burlingame unless a license has been obtained as pro-
vided in §9.04.011.'°
Section 2: §9.04.011 is hereby added to the Municipal
Code which shall read and provide as follows:
"§9.04.011 Dog License Fee: (a) An annual license fee
in the following amounts shall be paid for each dog
which is more than four (4) months old and is owned,
kept, harbored or possessed within the City of Burlin-
game:
Male and unspayed female dogs
in the amount of $4.00
Spayed female dogs in the
amount of $2.00
The license fee shall be due and payable on the first
day of January of each year. Any person who fails or
neglects to pay the said license fee on or before the
first day of March of each year as said license fee be-
comes due, shall be deemed delinquent, and shall pay a
penalty in the amount of Two Dollars ($2.00). Any per-
son who comes into ownership of or commences to harbor,
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keep or possess a dog over the age of four (4) months,
after the first day of March of each year, shall within
thirty (30) days, obtain a license as herein provided for
the remainder of the license year in the full amount
hereinabove provided."
1°(b) Each applicant for a license for a spayed dog
shall file with the License Collector an affidavit signed
by him in such form as the License Collector shall pro-
vide, or approve, that such dog is spayed."
Section 3: §9.04.012 is hereby added to the Municipal
Code which shall read and provide as follows:
"§9.04.012 Exceptions to Dog License Requirement: The
provisions of this chapter requiring the licensing of dog
shall not apply to dogs under the age of four (4) months,
if kept within a sufficient enclosure, nor to dogs owned
by or in custody or under the control of persons who are
non-residents of the City of Burlingame traveling through
said city or temporarily sojourning therein for a period
not exceeding thirty (30) days, nor to dogs duly licensed
with the current license of an incorporated city within
the County of San Mateo, nor to dogs duly licensed by the
County of San M teo nor to dogs brought to the City of
Burlingame exclusively for the purpose of entering the
same in any dog show or exhibition, and which are
actually entered in and kept at such show or exhibition,
nor to dogs under treatment in the custody or control of
animal hospitals, nor to dogs on sale in duly licensed
pet shops, nor to dogs owned, kept or controlled by any
person having a permit to keep and maintain a dog kennel,
provided that such dogs are kept enclosed within such pet
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shop or dog kennel, nor to dogs under the ownership, cus-
tody and control of the owner of a dog kennel or his duly
authorized employee or agent when such dogs are removed
from such kennel in the bona fide operation thereof for
the purpose of exercise or training, provided that any
such dog bear a metal identification tag atlached to a
collar around the dog's neck or to a strap around its
leg, which tag shall be of a size and type, designated by
the Poundkeeper, shall be furnished at the sole cost and
expense of the owner of said kennel and shall set forth
the name and address of said kennel; and a dog bearing
such tag shall be treated in all respects as a licensed
dog in the event of its escape and subsequent impoundment
Provided, however, that no unlicensed dogs shall be
allowed to run at large; provided, further, that no lic-
ense issued by the County of San Mateo or by any city in
said county other than the City of Burlingame shall be
valid for any do3 ausLomarily housed in said City."
Section 4: §9.04.020 of the Municipal Code is amended
to read and provide as follows:
19.04.020: Dogs Running at Large a Nuisance - Impound-
ing - Redemption or Sale: It shall be unlawful for any
person to allow any dog owned or controlled by him or her
to run at large and uncontrolled within the City, and any
dog so running at large or uncontrolled is hereby declared
to be a nuisance and it shall be the duty of the humane
officer to immediately impound such dog in the public
pound where it may be redeemed by the owner or person
entitled to the possession thereof, within five (5) days
thereafter on payment of four ($4.00) dollars impounding
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fee, together with an additional charge of one ($1.00)
dollar per day, or fraction thereof, for boarding and
keeping such dog, but if not so redeemed such dog may be
disposed of by the humane officer, and if sold the re-
ceipt for the sale price endorsed by the humane officer
shall transfer a valid title to the purchaser."
Section 5: Severability: If any section, subsection,
sentence, clause, phrase or portion of this ordinance is for any
reason held to be invalid or unconstitutional by the decision of
any Court of competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not
affect the validity of the remaining portions of this ordinance.
The City Council of this City hereby declares that it would have
adopted this ordinance and each section, subsection, sentence,
clause, phrase or portion thereof, irrespective of the fact that
any one or more sections, subsections, clauses, phrases or portions
may be declared invalid or unconstitutional.
Section 6: Publication
lished once as required by law.
This ordinance shall be pub -
a
or
I, HUBERT K. WHITE, City Clerk, do hereby certify that
the foregoing ordinance was introduced at a regular meeting of the
City Council held on the 2nd day of December ,
196 t? , and adopted thereafter at a regular meeting of the City
Council held on the 16th day of December , 196$_,
by the following votes:
AYES: Councilmen: Crosby-Diederichsen
NOES: Councilmen: None
Absent Councilmen: None
City Clerk
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