(A) Every owner of a dog which has grown a set of permanent canine teeth or has attained the age of six months, whichever event occurs first, shall immediately obtain a license for the dog.
(B) Licenses shall be valid for one 365 day year, the period being March 1 to February 28 and are renewable on March 1 of each year, with renewal notice sent out February 1. A penalty set by resolution shall be collected for each dog not licensed by March 15 with further penalty set after March 30.
(C) No license shall be issued until a certificate of vaccination for rabies, valid for the license year, is presented to the Licensing Department.
(D) For record purposes, a new owner of a licensed dog is required to notify within 30 days the City Police Department at no additional cost to the new owner.
(E) A license tag issued to a dog owner shall be attached securely to a collar or harness on the dog that license was issued to, at all times. If a license tag is lost, the owner may obtain a duplicate license tag upon satisfactory proof of loss and payment of the required fee.
(F) Licenses shall be issued through the City Police Department during regular business hours. All accounting and records shall be the responsibility of that department.
(G) The dog license fee which is due and payable upon the issuance of a license, and the other fees required to be paid under the provisions of this chapter, shall be set by resolution.
(H) No license fee shall be required for any service dog. A license shall be issued for such dog upon proper proof of rabies vaccination.
(Ord. 1276, passed 7-15-2013) Penalty, see § 90.99