HomeMy WebLinkAbout63 - Ordinances ORDINANCE NO. 63
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CALIFORNIA,
ESTABLISHING REGULATIONS AND LICENSING
PROCEDURES FOR THE KEEPING OF DOGS AS PETS
WITHIN THE CITY.
SECTION 1. For the purposes of this article, unless other-
wise apparent from the context, certain words and phrases used in this article are
defined as follows:
a. "Commercial kennel" shall mean any place, other
than a private kennel, where four (4) or more
dogs over four (4) months of age are kept.
b. "Enforcing Officer" shall mean the City Manager,
the Police Chief, the Humane Officer, the City
Health Officer, or such other person as the Council
may designate.
SECTION 2. Vaccination and licenses: Required.
Each dog over the age of four (4) months harbored within
the City shall be vaccinated for rabies and licensed. The owner or harborer of such
dog shall be required to present to the Enforcing Otficer, upon request, a valid
license and vaccination certificate signed by a licensed veterinarian. Such vac-
cination shall be made each year un]ess a chick-embryo vaccine approved by the
Department of Public Health of the State has been given by a licensed veterinarian
within two (2) years.
SECTION 3. Licenses: Places of procurement.
Licenses shall be available at the License Bureau in the
City Hall and at the Dog Pound.
SECTION 4. Licenses: Fees: Penalties.
a. Dog license fees are hereby set by resolution.
SECTION 5. Licenses: Applications: Issuance: Form.
Upon the receipt of the required license fee accompanied by a~
application in writing giving the name and address of the owner or possessor of the
dog and a brief description of the dog, the Enforcing Officer shall issue and deliver
to such person a license certifying the payment of s~ch fee and setting I-orth the name
and address of the application, a brief description of the dog, and the number allotted
to such dog.
SECTION 6. Tags: Issuance.
At the time of the issuance of a dog license, the Enforcin~
Officer shall deliver to the applicant for such license a metal tag which shall set
forth the date of expiration of the license.
SECTION 7. Tags: Maintenance on dogs.
It shall be the duty of the owner or harborer of the dog
for which a tag is issued, to maintain such tag on such dog.
SECTION 8. Leashes.
No person owning or harboring any dog within the City shall
permit such dog, whether licensed or not, to be ~pon any public street, sidewalk,
land, alley, court, or any other public place or upon any private mroperty or premises,
other than those of the person owning or having control or custodv of such dog, except
when such dog is held under by an able-bodied and competent person.
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SECTION 9. Vicious dogs.
No person shall harbor or keep any vicious dog within
the City.
SECTION 10. Rabies examinations.
a. Biting dogs: Quarantine. Whenever it is shown that
any dog has bitten any person, the owner or person having the custody or possession
of such dog shall, upon the order of the City Health Officer or his authorized
agent, quarantine the dog and keep it securely chained for a period of ten (10)
days, and shall permit the City Health Officer or his representative to make an
inspection or examination of such dog at any time during such period. Quarantined
dogs shall not be removed from the premises without the permission of the City
Health Officer. The City Health Officer, in the interest of protecting the person
bitten, may order the dog quarantined for a period of twelve (12) days at the
owner's expense at the City Pound or at a licensed veterinary hospital.
b. Dogs having or suspected of having rabies. The
Enforcing Officer or any of his deputies shall have the right to seize any dog
within the City having or suspected of having rabies and cause the same to be
examined by the City Health Officer, and it shall be the duty of the City Health
Officer to examine the dog for the purpose of determining if such dog is afflicted
with rabies.
c. Release of rabies-free dogs. If it shall be determined
that such dog does not have rabies, it shall be returned to the owner or person
harboring the dog.
SECTION 11. Impoundment.
a. Unlicensed dogs and dogs at large. It shall be the
duty of the Enforcing Officer to impound any dog for which a license is required
if such dog shall not be wearing the dog license tag provided for in this article
or any dog running loose upon a public street, sidewalk, lane, alley, court, or
other public place or upon any private property or premises, other than those of
the person owning or having control or custody of such dog, and the Enforcing
Officer shall keep the dog impounded until claimed, destroyed, or otherwise disposed
of.
b. Release to owners: Fees. The owner or possessor of
the dog so impounded may reclaim such dog upon the payment of the required license
fee and ten and no/10Oths ($10.00) dollars pickup fee for the first offense.
Fifteen and no/lO0ths ($15.00) dollars pickup fee for the second offense within
six (6) months of the second offense plus boarding fees in the amount of two and
no/10Oths ($2.00) dollars for the first day and for each additional day the dog
is impo~nded.
c. Adoption: Disposal. If a dog shall have been im-
ponnded for a period of three (3) days and shall not have been reclaimed by the
owner, the Enforcing Officer may, in lieu of killing such dog, offer the dog for
adoption. The Enforcing Officer may, however, with the approval of a licensed
veterinarian or Humane Officer of the State, humanely destroy any ~mpounded animal
on the same day it is impounded if the animal is in great pain or discomfort due
to an injury or infectious disease which mav contaminate and be detrimental to
the health of the other animals at the animal shelter.
d. Destruction. If an impounded dog is not claimed at
the expiration of such three (3) day period, it shall be the duty of the Enforcing
Officer to cause s~ch dog to be destroyed if not otherwise disposed of. In such
event, such dog may be held for an additional time not to exceed ten (10) days.
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SECTION 12. Commercial kennels: Licenses: Required:
Fees.
Every person engaging in the business ot operating a
commercial kennel as defined in subsection (a) of Section I of this article, shall
obtain a license from the License Official and shall pay an annual license fee for
each calendar year, or part of such calendar year.
SECTION 13. Commercial kennels: Licenses: Revocation.
The License Official shall have the power, upon giving ten
(10) days notice by United States Mail to any commercial kennel licensee, to revoke
any license granted to s~ch commercial kennel operator for violations of the
provisions of this article.
PASSED, APPROVED and ADOPTED this /th day of March, 1979.
AYES: Schlosser, Mikels, Palombo, West.
NOES: None
ABSENT: Frost
Mayor pro rem
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