(A) All dogs kept, harbored, or maintained by their owners in the town shall be licensed and registered, annually, if over six months of age.
(B) Dog licenses shall be issued by the Town Clerk-Treasurer upon payment of a license tax of $10 for each male, spayed female and unspayed female dog. The dog license fee shall be increased to $15 in any case after the deadline date set out in division (E) below.
(C) The owner shall state at the time application is made for such license and upon printed forms provided for such purpose, his name and address, and the name, breed, color and sex of each dog owned or kept by him.
(D) The provisions of this section shall not be intended to apply to dogs whose owners are nonresidents temporarily within the town, nor to dogs brought into the town for the purpose of participating in any dog show, nor to seeing eye dogs properly trained to assist blind persons when such dogs are actually being used by blind persons for the purpose of aiding them in going from place to place, nor dogs owned by the town and used in connection with the Town’s Metropolitan Police Department.
(E) All licenses required under the terms hereof must be obtained prior to March 31 of each calendar year; this time limit, however, shall not apply for dogs who reach six months of age after such date. Dogs reaching six months of age after such date, and dogs kept, harbored or maintained for the first time by their owners in the town after such date, shall be licensed within 60 days of such later date. All dogs required to be licensed hereunder at the time of passage of this code shall be licensed and registered within 60 days of the date on which this code takes effect. Persons claiming to be exempt from the time frame here set out shall be required to provide satisfactory proof of purchase or acquisition of the animal in the form of a bill of sale or affidavit.
(F) A violation of this section shall constitute a Class C infraction.
(‘82 Code, § 5-500; Am. Ord. 415, passed 9-ll-85; Am. Ord. 927, passed 6-21-05) Penalty, see § 90.99