An applicant for an animal license shall, at the time of making an application, pay to the City Finance Officer as a license fee for each neutered animal or spayed female animal and another fee amount for each unneutered male animal or unspayed female animal, and it shall be the duty of the City Finance Officer, at the time of the issuance of the license provided for in this subchapter, to furnish and deliver to said applicant a metallic tag for each animal for which such license is issued, upon which tag shall be stamped or engraved the registered number of the animal and the year when registered, and it shall then be the duty of the owner of the animal to place a collar around the neck of such animal so owned or kept by him or her, on which collar shall be securely fastened a metallic tag so furnished by the City Finance Officer; provided that in case of the loss of any tag so issued, the said City Finance Officer is authorized to issue a duplicate thereof upon payment of the actual cost of same upon application being made therefor and upon satisfactory proof that such tag has been lost.
(Prior Code, § 8.04.022) (Ord. 538, passed - -1987; Ord. 580, passed - -1993)