(A) All applications for an animal license shall be made at the office of the City Clerk and shall be accompanied by a valid certificate that the requirements of § 2-3-1 of this article have been met. All license taxes and fees payable under this chapter shall be paid to the City Clerk, unless the city shall have contracted with a private agency to render such services for and on behalf of the city. In the latter event, all such applications and requests shall be made, and all such taxes and fees shall be paid, to such agency, acting for and on behalf of the city; and the agency may issue such licenses, using forms supplied by the City Clerk, in the name and on behalf of the city. Upon issuance of the license, the applicant shall be given a receipt for the amount of the license tax and given appropriate metal tag or plate signifying that the license has been issued.
(B) All taxes and fees so received and licenses issued by such agency shall be reported, on a form provided by the City Clerk, and all such taxes and fees shall be remitted, to the City Clerk within the period of time prescribed in the agreement between the city and the agency or, if no applicable period of time has been prescribed in such agreement, within seven days after the end of the calendar month in which the taxes and fees shall have been received by the agency.
(Ord. 3461, passed - -1995)