(A) No person shall own, keep or harbor any dog within the city limits, unless such dog is licensed as herein provided.
(1) Application for such license shall be made to the City Treasurer or such agent as shall be designated by the City Treasurer, which shall state the name and address of the owner and the name, breed, color, age, sex and intact/altered status of the dog.
(2) The license fee shall be paid at the time of making application, a numbered receipt given to the applicant and a numbered metallic tag shall be issued to the owner.
(3) The yearly license fee shall be set by resolution and is required for all dogs over the age of six months.
(4) The license fee shall be set such that the fee for an altered dog shall be less than the fee for an unaltered dog. In order to be eligible for the lesser fee, proof from a veterinary must accompany the application for license.
(5) (a) All dog licenses shall be issued for one year and will go into effect January 1 of that year.
(b) Any license issued for any dog for the year, immediately preceding, shall be valid to, but not including, March 1 of the current year.
(6) No application for a dog license shall be accepted until the applicant has produced satisfactory evidence that the dog for which the license is to be issued has been vaccinated for rabies with a strain of rabies vaccine certified to be effective for a two-year period. Rabies vaccine will be administered only by a licensed veterinarian.
(7) Any person licensing a dog on or after March 1 of any year shall pay a late fee set by resolution in addition to the ordinary license fee, unless such person can present evidence satisfactory to the City Treasurer that the animal being licensed has not been kept, held or owned within the city for a period in excess of one week immediately prior to the date on which application is made.
(B) In the event that a license tag issued for a dog shall be lost, the owner may obtain a duplicate tag upon payment of $2 to the City Treasurer.
(C) If there is a change of ownership of a dog during the license year, the new owner shall purchase a current license transferred to his or her name upon application to the City Treasurer for one-half the original fee for that license year.
(D) (1) No person shall use for any dog, a license, receipt or license tag, or evidence of vaccination for rabies, issued for any other dog.
(Prior Code, § 8.02.030) (Ord. 1, passed 1-17-1980; Ord. 96, passed 11-19-2001; Ord. 110, passed 1-1-2006; Ord. 2019-8, passed 8-19-2019)