Any person owning a dog within the jurisdiction shall license the dog pursuant to the following provisions.
(A) Licensing, fees and registration.
(1) It is unlawful for any person to own, keep or harbor a dog over the age of three months within the county without making application to the county or city with jurisdiction for that purpose and paying to the county or city the annual registration fee. The licensing due date is March 1 each year.
(2) A late fee shall be imposed unless a new license is purchased prior to the expiration of the current license. Licenses for the following year may be purchased within 90 days prior to the expiration date.
(3) All licenses and late fees required by this chapter shall be in the amounts established by this chapter.
(4) It shall be the duty of the animal control officer to register any dog upon application of the owner or keeper and to issue a registration receipt and metallic registration tag upon payment by the owner or keeper. Such registration receipt and metallic registration tag shall be valid and in force from the date issued until the expiration date.
(5) The provisions of this section shall not apply to dogs whose owners are nonresidents temporarily within the jurisdiction for 30 days or less, nor to dogs brought into the city for the purpose of participating in any show.
(B) Information required for registration. Before receiving a registration receipt and metallic registration tag, each owner must state, at the time of application for such a permit, the name and address of the owner and the sex, breed, age and color of each dog to be registered. The owner must also present a certificate from a veterinarian stating that the dog has been vaccinated for the prevention of rabies. Such certificate must give the last date of vaccination and the number of the vaccination tag used by the veterinarian at the time of vaccination and the type of vaccine administered and the date when the next vaccination is due. It is unlawful for the owner to misrepresent the age of any dog for the purpose of avoiding the payment of the license required by this chapter.
(C) Collar; tag attachment. It shall be the duty of the owner or keeper of any dog so registered to provide a suitable collar for such dog to wear and to attach thereto the metallic registration tag having a number corresponding with the certificate of registry inscribed thereon. All dogs not so registered and collared as prescribed by this chapter may be impounded by the animal control officer or any police officer or other designated official of the jurisdiction.
(D) Removal of collar and registration tag. It is unlawful for any person other than the owner to remove the collar from any dog to which collar has been attached the metallic registration tag herein required, or to remove said metallic registration tag from the collar to which it has been attached.
(E) Application for permit within ten days. The owner of any dog of registration age shall make application for a permit and obtain a permit tag for such dog within ten days after acquisition or age attainment.
(F) License fees. License fees shall apply as follows.
Type
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Amount
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Type
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Amount
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Class A kennel | $50 plus individual dog licenses |
Class B kennel | $75 plus individual dog licenses |
Dog, intact | $35 |
Dog, neutered/spayed | $10 |
Guard dog license | $25 plus dog license |
Hobby kennel | $25 plus individual dog licenses |
Pet store permit | $25 plus a business license |
Replacement tag fee | $3 |
Transfer of license fee | $3 |
(G) Service fees. Service fees shall apply as follows.
Type
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Amount
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Adoption fee | $25 |
Board fee for dogs/cats per day | $5 |
Impound, first time | $25 plus fee and notification |
Impound, second time within 12 months | $50 plus fee and notification |
Late fee | $25 |
Quarantine fee | $65 |
(H) Livestock fees. Fees for livestock shall apply as follows.
Type
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Amount
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Daily board fee | $10/head/day |
Impound fees | $45/load |
(I) Licensing and fee exemptions.
(1) The provisions of division (A)(1) above shall not apply to:
(a) Seeing eye dogs properly trained to assist blind persons, if such dogs are actually being used by blind persons to assist them in moving from place to place;
(b) Hearing dogs properly trained to assist deaf persons, if such dogs are actually used by deaf persons to aid them in responding to an auditory stimulus; or
(c) Dogs specifically trained to assist officials of governmental agencies in the performance of their duties and which are owned by such agencies.
(2) Nothing in division (I)(1) above shall be construed to exempt any dog from having a current rabies vaccination.
(Ord. 2002-11-1, passed 11-4-2002) Penalty, see § 90.999