Every person owning, maintaining or harboring a dog in the City shall be assessed by the City for each dog so owned, maintained or harbored, a head tax of three dollars ($3.00) on each dog, male and female, to the Assessor for Kanawha County, West Virginia. After the payment of the fee set forth herein, the City Clerk shall issue to such person a license together with an official tag, which tag shall be fastened to the collar of the dog so licensed; provided, that before issuing such license tag there shall be exhibited to the City Clerk a certificate from a registered professional veterinarian to the effect that the dog for which a license is applied has been duly and properly inoculated for rabies.
(Ord. 424. Passed 9-21-81.)