HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD 935both male and female.
(b) "Owner" shall be intended to mean any person or persons,
firm, association or corporation owning, keeping, or harboring a
f emale.
The owner shall state at the time application is made for such
license and upon printed forms provided for such purpose his name
and address and shall describe the dog to be licensed in such manner
that the dog may be identified with reasonable certainty. Each
license issued under the provisions of this ordinance shall be val
until and including the 30th day of April of the year for which it
is issued, and shall be renewed annually upon payment of the fees
above provided.
The provisions of this section shall not be intended to apply
to those owners who are non-resident temporarily with the city for
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ing with the number on the certificate.
Every owner shall be required to provide each dog with a
collar to which the license tag must be affixed and shall see that
the collar and tag are worn at all times.
In case a dog tag is lost or destroyed, a duplicate will be
issued by the Police Department upon presentation of the receipt
showing payment of the license fee for the current year. Dog tags
shall not be transferred from one dog to another and no refunds
refuses or fails to prevent such dog from howling or barking during
the hours between sunset and sunrise, or refuses or fails to prevent
such dog from destroying property of others, or refuses or fails to
prevent such dog from running at large, then such owner shall be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and-upon-eon*ieti4o&-t4iereof.,--,halI be
pun!TA-ed-b7-a:-f-in-e--of-n-ot--=r-e
and of the proceedings for eac'W and said dog, if
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ce to release any dog without the consent of the owner or re-
11 lease his own or any other dog from the city poured or from any
I place where a dog may be held for observation.
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l one (1) day after the impoundinm of any unlicensed dog, the Chief
!of Police shell cause to be published in the official er news a
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the ci�Gy for two (2) consecutive days a description of the dog
nd time and place of taking. If the do shall b
g e wearing a license
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mailed or delivered to the person to whom the license is issued.
Such notice shall be mailed or delivered to the address shown on
posting and mailing of such notice the dog shall not have been
redeemed by the owner, it may be destroyed or sold for a sum of
money sufficient to discharge the costs and charges incurred by
the city for impounding and keeping the dog together with the
license fee for the current year if unpaid. PROVIDED, That no
dog which appears to be suffering from rabies nor any dog of fi
dangerous, or vicious propensities shall be released from the
pound but shall be destroyed. The buyer of any dog under the
provisions of this section shall become the owner of the dog free
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from any claim or title of the original owner or harborer.
Section 10. RABIES AND NOTIgE If a dog is believed to have
rabies or has been bitten by a dog suspected of having rabies,
,such dog shall be confined by a leash or chain on the owner's
premises and shall be placed under the observation of a veterinariar
lat the expense of the owner for a period of two (2) weeks. The
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owner shall notify the poundmaster or dogcatcher of the fact that
his dog has been exposed to rabies and at his discretion the
poundmaster or dogcatcher is empowered to have such dog removed
;from the owner's premises to a veterinary hospital and there placed
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under observation for a period of two (2) weeks at the expense
of the owner.
It shall be unlawful for any person knowing or suspecting a
dog has rabies to allow such dog to be taken off his premises
or beyond the limits of the city without the written permission
of the poundmaster. Every owner or any other person, upon as-
certaining a dog is rabid, shall immediately notify the pound-
master, the dogcatcher, or a policeman, who shall either remove
for said dogs provided that such dogs kept in the kennel are
not permitted off the kennel owner's premises.
The application for kennel license shall state the name and
address of the owner of said kennel, the location where the kennel
is to be kept and the number of dogs proposed to be kept. No
kennel shall be established within one hundred and fifty (150)
feet of any dwelling house other than that of the kennel owner.
If kennel shall be issued a license, certificate shall be
posted in a conspicuous place at the kennel and no kennel license
shall be transferrable except on application by both the old
and now kennel owner and the payment of the sum of Two Dollars
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(42.00) for transfer fee to the City of Caldwell, Idaho. Further,
this section shall become effective July 20. 1959
Section,12. TITIES. Any person found violating any
provisions or section of this ordinance shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor and upon c nviction thereon shall be punished by a
fine of not less than ve Dollars (05.00) and no more than One
Hundred Dollars C., 01 for such offense.
Section 13. R"ZEAL OE 991 _QRMNAKC95. Sections
9-101 through 9-111 of Title �,X of Chapter I of the Code of 1942
of the City of Caldwell are hereby repealed.
Section 14. SEPARABILITY QE MOMISIMS. It is the intention
of the City of Caldwell, Idaho, that-each separate section of this
ordinance shall be deemed independent of all other sections
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herein and it is further the intention of the City that if any
provision or section of this ordinance be declared invalid, all
other sections thereof shall remain valid and enforceable.
This ordinance shall be in full force and effect on and
after its passage,Epproval and publication.
Dated this 6th day of July, 1959•
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