(a) (1) Every owner of any dog over six months of age shall register with the City Clerk his or her name and address with the name, sex and description of each dog owned and kept within the city. It shall be unlawful for the owner of any newly acquired dog or any dog brought into the city to fail to register such animal within 30 days from acquisition or bringing the dog into the city. It shall be unlawful for the owner of any previously registered dog to fail to maintain current registration of such dog.
(2) Upon registration, the owner shall present a current, completed certificate of immunization against rabies. No registration shall follow without evidence of this document, and it shall be unlawful for the owner of any dog over six months of age to fail to maintain effective rabies immunization of such dog.
(3) The owner or harborer of any dog shall, at the time of registering such dog, present to the City Clerk a certificate from an accredited veterinarian showing that a male dog has been neutered or a female dog has been spayed, if the dog has been neutered or spayed.
(4) The City Clerk shall collect a registration fee of $5 for each neutered male dog and for each spayed female dog, and a fee of $25 for each unneutered male dog and for each unspayed female dog.
(b) Registration fees as enumerated above may be prorated for newly acquired dogs or for dogs owned by a person or persons moving to and establishing a home in the city during a calendar year. Every owner or harborer of a dog or dogs who shall fail to register shall pay in addition to the registration fee herein provided a penalty fee of $25 per dog.