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City Council Meeting 2-19-85
Santa Monica, California
ORDINANCE NUMBER 1329(CCS)
(City Council Series)
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF SANTA MONICA AMENDING SECTIONS
4116 AND 4117 OF THE SANTA MONICA
MUNICIPAL CODE REGARDING LICENSING AND
IMPOUNDMENT OF DOGS IN CONFORMANCE
WITH STATE LAW
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA MONICA DOES ORDAIN
AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Section 4116 of the Santa Monica Municipal
Code is amended to read as follows:
SECTION
4116.
Licensina of
~ogs. Every person who harbors a dog
withIn the CIty shall pay to the City
an annual license tax In an amount to
be established by resolutIon of the
City Council.
The City shall from
time to time deliver to the person
making such payment a license which
shall describe the dog, together with
a
seal
or metallic plate having
thereon the number of such license,
and fIgures indicating paid, provided
the person making the payment has
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filed with the City a certificate
indicating the dog has been vaccinated
in accordance with thIs Chapter and
state law; otherwisel a receipt for
payment shall be issued. DuplIcates
shall be issued for lost tags for One
Dollar and Fifty Cents ($1.50) upon
the filing of proof of such loss.
Such metallic tags shall be attached
to a collar or harness and such collar
or harness with the attached tag shall
be kept on such dog at all tImes,
excepting as otherwise provided in the
Code.
The license fee herein mentioned
shall be due and payable on the 2nd
day of January each year and shall
expire on the 31st day of December
next ensuIng. Where a dog is acquired
after the 2nd day of January, the
license fee thereon shall be due on
the date of acquisition of such dog
for such calendar year and thereafter
on the 2nd day of January of each
exceeding year.
In the event that any person
shall faill neglect or refuse to pay
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the required license tax before the
1st day of April of each year, a
penalty will be assessed, in addition
to the prescribed license fee, In the
amount of $5.00 for every neutered
male or spayed female dog and $10.00
for every uneutered male or unspayed
female dog.
The provisions of this section
shall not apply to any dog not more
than four (4) months of age.
SECTION 2. Section 4117 of the Santa Monica Municipal
Code is amended to read as follows:
SECTION 4117. Unlicensed DOQs.
The
Humane
Officer
shall
take
possession of any dog, except those
dogs not more than four (4) months of
age, found anywhere in the City
without a collar or harness and tag as
provided
In
this Code and shall
impound the same under the provisions
of this Code.
SECTION 3. 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
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further, are hereby repealed or modified to that extent
necessary to affect the provisions of this ordinance.
SECTION
4.
If any section, subsection, sentence,
clause, or phrase of this ordinance is for any reason held to
be lnvalid or unconstitutional by a decision of any court of
any competent jurisdiction, 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 every section, subsection, sentence,
clause or phrase not declared invalid or unconstitutlonal
without regard to whether any portion of the ordinance would
be subsequently declared invalid or unconstitutional.
SECTION 5.
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 after 30 days from its adoption.
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
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ROBERT M. MYERS
City Attorney
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Adopted and approved this 19th day of February~ 1985.
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Mayor
I her eby certIfy that the foregoing Ord Inance No. 1329 (CCS)
was duly and regularly Ir.troduced at a meeting of the CIty
CouncIlor. the 22nd day of January 1985; that the said Ordinance
was thereafter duly adopted at a meetIng of the City Council on
the 19th day of February 1985 by the followIng Council vote:
Ayes: Cour.cilmembers: Conn~ Epstein~ Jennings, lane and
Mayor Reed
Noes: Councllmembers: None
AbstaIn: CouncIlmembers: None
Absent: Councilmembers: Edwards and Katz
ATTEST:
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CIty Clerk