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Animal Licensing
ARTICLE 2. DOGS AND CATS
2-201. REGISTRATION AND
VACCINATION REQUIRED; FEE.
(a) Every owner of any dog or cat over six months of age shall annually register with the city clerk his or her name and address with the name, sex and description of such animal owned and kept within the city. It shall be unlawful for the owner of such animal to fail to maintain current registration of such animal.
(b) Upon registration, the owner shall present a current, completed certificate of immunization against rabies. No registration shall follow without evidence of this document, and it shall be unlawful for the owner of any animal described in (a) above to fail to maintain effective rabies immunization of such animal.
(c) The owner or harborer of any such animal shall, at the time of registering such animal, present to the city clerk a certificate from an accredited veterinarian showing that a male dog or cat has been neutered or a female dog or cat has been spayed, if the dog or cat has been neutered or spayed.
(d) The city clerk shall collect an annual registration fee of $10.00 for each neutered male dog or cat and for each spayed female dog or cat, and $20.00 for each unneutered male dog or cat and for each unspayed female dog or cat.
(e) The registration year shall be from January 1st through December 31st of each year. The fee shall be payable before March 1" of each year without penalty.
(f) Registration fees as enumerated hereinabove may be prorated quarterly for newly acquired dogs or cats or for dogs or cats owned by a person or persons moving to and establishing a home in the city during a calendar year. Every owner or harborer of such animals who shall fail to register the same prior to the 1st day of March of each year shall pay in addition to the registration fee hereinabove provided a penalty fee for late registration of $5.00. (Ord. 729; Code 1999)
2-202. DOG AND CAT TAGS. It shall be the duty of the city clerk or designated agent, upon a showing of current rabies immunization and receipt of the registration fee hereinbefore required, to keep in a book suitable for the registration of dogs and cats, the time of the registration, the name of the owner or keeper, the number of the registration and the amount paid therefore, and shall deliver to the owner or keeper of the dog or cat a certificate in writing stating that the person has registered such animal and the number by which the animal is registered, and shall also deliver to the owner or keeper of the animal a tag with the registration number and registration year thereon, which shall be, by the owner or keeper, attached to the collar to be used on the animal so registered.
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