(A) The Clerk-Treasurer shall keep a register of all animal license and rabies tags and shall issue duplicates thereof for any lost or stolen license tags.
(B) A person shall obtain from the Clerk- Treasurer a license tag of metal and of a convenient size, with the number of the license and the year in which the license is issued stipulated thereon. The words “Centerville License” also shall be stamped on each tag. The town shall furnish the tags and the Clerk-Treasurer shall issue the tags to the applicant upon payment to the Clerk-Treasurer of the following license fees: male animals, $3.50; females, $5; spayed females, $3.50. The license shall be valid only for the non-expired part of the year for which it is issued. Licenses shall be valid from June 1 until May 31 in the next calendar year. No license will be issued until the owner of the animal provides a rabies vaccination certificate showing that the animal has been vaccinated against rabies within one year prior to the date of application for a license.
(C) A person who resides within the corporate limits of the town shall obtain a rabies inoculation tag from the proper authorities, the tag indicating the date and validity of the inoculation.
(D) A person shall not change, alter, counterfeit or imitate any animal tag, as specified in divisions (B) and (C) above, or sell or offer for sale any changed, altered, counterfeit or imitated animal tag. No person, being the owner, keeper or harborer of any animal, shall use a changed, altered, counterfeit or imitated animal tag for the purpose of evading the requirements of this chapter.
(Prior Code, § 91.03) (Ord. 1961-1, passed 4-10-1961; Ord. 1992-92, passed 12-1-1992) Penalty, see § 91.99