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ORDINANCE NO.
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(City Council Series)
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF SANTA MONICA AMENDING SECTIONS
4115, 4116, 4122 AND 4123 OF THE SANTA
MONICA MUNICIPAL CODE AND ADDING SECTION
4ll6A TO THE SANTA MONICA MUNICIPAL CODE
PERTAINING TO THE CAREt CONTROL AND
LICENSING OF DOGS AND THE BOARDING OF CATS
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA MONICA DOES
ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Section 4115 of the Santa Monica Municipal
Code is amended to read as follows:
Section 4115. Dogs. Restricted Areas. No person
having control, charge or custody of any dog shall permit the
same to go upon any school ground, recreation or playground,
or public park, or upon those lands in the City lying westerly
of that certain thoroughfare, commonly known as The Promenade
or upon the beach sands lying northerly of the westerly prolonga-
tion of the center line of California Avenue. Notwithstanding
any other provision of this Code, any person violating this
Section or Section 4114 herein shall be guilty of an infraction.
Any person convicted of an infraction under the provisions of
this section or under the provisions of Section 4114 of this
Code shall be punishable by a fine of not more than Fifty
($50.00) Dollars. Each such person shall be guilty of a
separate offense for each and every day during any portion of
which any violation of this Section or of Section 4114 of
this Code is committed, continued, or permitted by such person
and shall be punishable accordingly. In addition, any such
dog found in any such prohibited place may be impounded as
herein provided.
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In addit~on to the penalties hereinabove provided, any
condition caused or permitted to exist in violation of the
provisions of this Section or in violation of the provisions
of Section 4114 of this Code shall be deemed a public nuisance
and may be, by this City, summarily abated as such, and each
day such condition continues shall be regarded as a new and
separate offense.
The provisions of this Section shall not apply to dogs
which have been especially trained and used for blind persons
to aid and guide them in their movements while such dogs
are being used for such purposes.
SECTION 2. Section 4116 of the Santa Monica Municipal
Code is amended to read as follows:
Section 4116. Dogs. Licensing. Every person who
harbors a neutered male dog or a spayed female dog within the
City shall pay to the City Clerk, License Division, an annual
license tax of Five ($5.00) Dollars, and every person who
harbors an un neutered male dog or anmspayed female dog within
the City shall pay an annual license tax of Ten ($10.00)
Dollars in the same manner. The Clerk shall 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 the year
for which the license has been paid, provided the person making
the payment has filed with the Clerk a certificate indicating
the dog has been vaccinated in accordance with this Chapter
and state law, otherwise a receipt for payment shall be issued.
Duplicates shall be issued for lost tags for One Dollar and
Fifty ($1.50) Cents upon the filing of proof of such loss. Such
metallic tags shall be attached to a collar or harness and
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such collar or harness with the attached tag shall be kept
on such dog at all times, excepting as in the Code otherwise
provided.
The license fee herein mentioned shall be due and payable
on the second day of January each year and shall expire on the
thirty first day of December next ensu~ng. Where a dog is
acquired after the second 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 second day of
January of each succeeding year~
In the event that any person shall fail, neglect, or
refuse to pay the requ~red license tax before the first day
of April of each year, a penalty will be assessed through the
increase of the license tax as follows: for every neutered
male or spayed female dog, Six Dollars and Twenty Five ($6.25)
Cents; and for every unneutered male or un spayed female dog,
Thirteen ($l3.00) Dollars.
The provisions of this Section shall not apply to any
dog not more than Four (4) Months of age.
SECTION 3. Section 4116A is added to the Santa Monica
Municipal Code to read as follows:
Section 4116A. Refund of License Fee. Any person
who harbors a dog within the City which he has acquired from
the City Pound after the expiration of the period of redemption
provided for in Section 4124 of this Code, and who subsequently
causes said dog to be spayed or neutered shall be entitled to
a refund of the license fee paid hereunder for the year in
which such dog is acquired upon presentation of proof to the
City Clerk that such dog was obtained from the City Pound and
that such dog was subsequently spayed or neutered.
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SECTION 4. Section 4122 of the Santa Monica Municipal
Code is amended to read as follows:
Section 4122. Fees for Impounding and Disposal.
Impound
Category Fee
Dogs - First offense
Second offense
Third and subsequent offense
Copulating Season
Cats
Animals less than 100 pounds
Animals 100 pounds or more
Birds and fowl
Calls to pick Up for Disposal
Dogs
Additional dog
Additional pup
Cats.
Additional Cat
Additional kitten
Other animals less than 100 pounds
Other animals 100 pounds or more
Birds and fowl
Dead animals
$ 5.00
10.00
15.00
30.00
1.00
4.00
7.50
1.00
2.50
1.50
1.00
2.00
1.50
1.00
2.00
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2.00
none
*Humane Division authorized to set fee, but in no case
to exceed 25~ per pound.
Animals Brought in for Disposal
Dogs
Cats
Other animals less than 100 pounds
Other animals 100 pounds or more
Birds and fowl
Dead animals
$ 1. 50
1. 00
1.00
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1.00
none
**Hurnane Division authorized to set fee, but in no case
to exceed 20~ per pound.
SECTION 5. Section 4123 of the Santa Monica Municipal
Code is amended to read as follows:
Section 4123. Boarding Charges.
Category
Dogs
Cats
Other animals less than 100 pounds
Other animals 100 pounds or more
Birds and fowl
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Charge
Per Day
:r 2.00
1.00
1.00
2.00
1.00
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SECTION 6. Any provision of the Santa Monica Municipal
Code, or appendices thereto inconsistent herewith to the extent
of such inconsistencies and no further, are hereby repealed
or modified to that extent necessary to effect the provisions
of this ordinance.
SECTION 7. 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
jurisdiction, such decision shall effect 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 unconstitutional without regard to whether
any portion of the ordinance would be subsequently declared
invalid or unconstitutional.
SECTION 8. The Mayor shall sign and the City Clerk shall
attest to the passage of this ordinance. The Ci~Clerk shall
cause the same to be published once in the official newspaper
within fifteen days after its adoption. This ordinance shall
become effective after thirty days from its adoption.
ADOPTED this
19th day of
November
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STATE . CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ss.
CITY OF SANTA MONICA
I do hereby certify that the foregoing ordinance was
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duly and regularly introduced at a meeting of the City Council
on the 12th day of November
, 1974; that thereafter
the said ordinance was duly adopted at a meeting of the City
Council on the 19th day of November
following vote:
, 1974, by the
AYES: Councilmen:Lawson, McCloskey, Swink, Trives,
van den Steenhoven, Hoover
NOES: Councilmen: Judson
ABSENT: Councilmen: None
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
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