(A) Every person owning, keeping, possessing, or harboring any dog more than three months of age within the city shall pay a fee to the City Clerk as follows: $12 for each unaltered male or female dog; $6 for each spayed female or neutered male dog.
(B) Such fee shall be due and payable before February 1 each year, but may be paid after December 1 of the previous year. The city shall send a warning letter to those dog owners who had tags the previous year and have failed to get new tags by February 1. A delinquent fee of $25 shall be assessed after March 31 of each year.
(C) The City Police when directed by the City Clerk shall assist the City Clerk in the collection of such annual fee. All such fee money shall be credited to the General Fund of the city except for such portion to be submitted to the state under Neb. RS 54-603.
(Ord. 2297, passed 1-20-2009; Ord. 2343, passed 12-6-2011)