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City Council Meeting 4-24-84 Santa Monica, California
ORDINANCE NO. 1306 (CCS)
(City Council Series)
AN ORDINANCE OF T~E CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF SANTA MONICA ADDING SECTION 4140
TO THE SANTA MONICA MUNICIPAL CODE RELATING
TO VICIOUS DOGS
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA MONICA DOES ORDAIN AS
FOLLOWS:
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SECTION 1.
Section 4140 is added to the Santa Monica
Municipal Code to read as follows:
Section 4140. Vicious Dogs.
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(a) No person owning or harboring any
pit bull or any other dog subject to this
Section pursuant to subdivision (b) shall
within the limits of the City allow or permit
such dog, whether licensed or not, to be upon
the public streets, public sidewalks, public
parks, or any other public place within the
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city, or upon any private property which is
not fully enclosed by fence or other barrier,
except when muzzled and held under leash by
an abled bodied person.
(b) This Section shall apply to any
dog for which the Animal Control Officer has
issued, based upon the vicious or predatory
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nature of the dog, a written notice to the
person owning or harboring such dog to keep
the dog muzzled and leased in accordance with
this Section.
(c) For purposes of this Section, "~it
bull" means any pit bull terrier of the
Staffordshire Bull Terrier, American
Staffordshire Terrier, or American Pit Bull
Terrier breed of dog or any mixed breed of
dog which contains as an element of its
breeding the breed of Staffordshire Bull
Terrier, American Staffordshire Terrier, or
American Pit Bull Terrier as to .be identified
as parttally of the breed of Staffordshire
Bull Terrier, American Staffordshire Terrier,
or American Pit Bull Terrier.
SECTION 2.
Any provision of the Santa Monica Municipal
Code or appendices thereto inconsistent with the provisions of
this ordinance, to the extent of such inconsistencies and no
further,
is hereby repealed or modified to that extent necessary
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to affect the provisions of this ordinance.
SECTION 3.
If any section, subsection, sentence, clause,
or phrase of this ordinance is for any reason held to be invalid
or unconstitutional by a decision of any court of competent
j ur isdiction,
such decision shall not affect the validity of the
remaining portions of the ordinance. The City Council hereby
declares that it would have passed this ordinance and each and
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every section, subsection, sentence, clause, or phrase not
declared invalid or unconstitutional without regard to whether
any portion of the orqinance would be subsequently declared
invalid or unconstitutional.
SECTION 4.
The Mayor shall sign and the City Clerk shall
attest to the passage of this. ordinance. The City Clerk shall
cause the same to be published once in the official newspaper
within 15 days after its adoption.
The ordinance shall become
effective 30 days from its adoption.
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
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ROBERT M. Iv1YERS
City Attorney
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ADOPTED AND A~PROVED THIS
24th
DAY
OF April
, 1984.
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MAYOR
I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THE FOREGOING ORDINANCE,
(CCS), WAS OULY AND REGULARLY INTRODUC!D AT A
NO. 1306
MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL ON THE lOth DAY OF April
1984; THAT T~E SAID ORDINANCE WAS THEREAFTER DULY ADOPTED
AT A MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL ON THE 24th DAY OF April
1984 BY THE FOLLOWING COUNCIL VOTE:
AYES:
COUNCILMEMBERS: Corin, Epstein, Jennings, Press,'
Reed, Zane and Mayor Edwards
NOES:
COUNCILMEMBERS: None
ABSENT:
COUNCILMEMBERS: None
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ABSTAIN:
COUNCILMEMBERS: None
ATTEST:
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CITY CLERK