(a) Every owner of any dog over six months of age shall annually 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.
(b) 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.
(c) 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.
(d) The City Clerk shall collect an annual registration fee of $5 for each neutered male dog and for each spayed female dog, and $7.50 for each unneutered male dog and for each unsprayed female dog.
(e) The registration year shall be from January 1 through December 31 of each year. The fee shall be payable before March 1 of each year without penalty.
(f) 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 the same prior to March 1 of each year shall pay, in addition to the registration fee herein provided, a penalty fee for late registration of $5.
(Ord. 02-04, passed 12-8-2002)