The Animal Control Officer and City Clerk may refuse a permit to keep or maintain animals or fowl hereunder for failure to comply with the provisions of this chapter and shall refuse a permit if in his or her judgment the animals or fowl should not be kept upon the premises described in the application for permit. If any permit be refused, the fee paid with the application shall be retained by the city to pay its expenses in the investigation and consideration thereof.
(Prior Code, § 6-3-7)