A. License Required: All dogs and cats over the age of four (4) months must be licensed each year to a person eighteen (18) years of age or older, except as otherwise provided herein.
B. Time Limits: Any person owning, possessing or harboring any dog or cat shall obtain a license for that animal within thirty (30) days after the animal reaches the age of four (4) months or within ten (10) days of the acquisition of the animal, whichever date is sooner.
C. License Applications: License applications must be submitted annually to the City, utilizing a standard form which requests name, address and telephone number of the applicant; breed, sex, color and age of the animal; and rabies information. The application shall be accompanied by the prescribed license fee and by a current rabies vaccination certificate. Rabies vaccinations shall be given by a licensed veterinarian as often as is required to maintain the animal in a current rabies vaccination status.
D. Nuisance Fee:
Nuisance animal fee | $100.00 plus proof of liability insurance |
1. The nuisance animal license fee shall be imposed in addition to any other fee imposed by this chapter and shall be paid within thirty (30) days from the date of conviction involving a violation of section 6.12.070 of this title. This fee requirement will expire one year after issuance if the animal is shown to have not committed another violation of section 6.12.070 of this title.
2. Within thirty (30) days after date of conviction of possessing a nuisance animal, the owner shall provide to the City proof of liability insurance in an amount of not less than twenty five thousand dollars ($25,000.00) to cover injuries which may be inflicted by a nuisance animal.
3. Failure to pay the nuisance fee or provide proof of liability insurance shall be grounds for impoundment of the nuisance animal until such fee is paid and proof of insurance is provided. The owner of the animal shall be responsible for the payment of all fees incurred as a result of the impoundment.
E. Expiration: The license shall expire one year from the date of issue.
(Ord. 20-23: Ord. 17-15)