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HomeMy WebLinkAbout74-33 Animal Control RegulationsORDINANCE NO. 74-33 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COSTA MESA AMENDING THE ANIMAL CONTROL ORDINANCE TO PROHIBIT INTERFERENCE WITH ANIMAL CONTROL OFFICERS; PROVIDING FOR REDUCED LICENSE COSTS FOR NEUTERED ANIMALS; PRO- VIDING LIMITATION PERIOD ON RABIES VACCINATION. THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COSTA MESA DOES HEREBY ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. The City Council of the City of Costa Mesa finds and declares that certain sections relating to interference with the duties of the Animal Control Officer were inadvertently omitted from the codified sections of the ordinance; that State law now requires a reduced license for spayed or neutered animals; and that recent veterinary findings have indicated that rabies shots have an effective lifetime of thirty (30) months. Accordingly, the following sections are added to the Costa Mesa Municipal Code to provide for the matters set out herein. Code. SECTION 2. Section 3-57 is hereby added to the Costa Mesa Municipal "Section 3-57 Interference with Officer No person shall interfere with, oppose, or resist the Animal Control Officer in the performance of his duties and in the enforcement of any pro- vision of this title." SECTION 3. Section 3-102 is hereby amended to read as follows: "Section 3-102 Licenses - Reduced Fees Every person who owns, possesses, keeps, or harbors a dog of whatever sex over the age of four (4) months within the City shall pay to the City an annual license tax of $6.00 for each dog. Every such person whose dog has been spayed or neutered shall pay one-half (1/2) of the applicable license tags; provided that said person can present a certificate of steril- ity issued by a licensed veterinarian." SECTION 4. "Section 3-122 is amended to read as follows: "Section 3-122 Vaccination Required Every person who owns, possesses, or harbors any dog shall have such dog vaccinated against rabies by a duly licensed veterinarian, or some person under his supervision, on or prior to the date such dog reaches four (4) months of age, and thereafter in intervals of not later than thirty (30) months. A dog may not be licensed prior to vaccination and the period of vaccination must last the length of the full term of the licensing period." SECTION 5. Section 3-123 is amended to read as follows: "Section 3-123 Vaccination Upon Importation Every person who brings a dog into the City, which has not been vacci- nated with the approved vaccine as herein prescribed within thirty (30) months prior to the importation, shall have such dog vaccinated within seven (7) days from and after its arrival in the City. A certificate of vaccination, issued by a duly licensed veterinarian or person under his direct supervision, from any other jurisdiction for specific dog estab- lishing vaccination with an approved vaccine may be accepted by the City as evidence of vaccination, providing it is within the interval prescribed by this section." SECTION 6. Section 3-30 is hereby amended to read as follows: "Section 3-30 Map The two zones are hereby established and the boundaries thereof are shown upon the revised animal zone map of the City on file in the office of the City Clerk, and hereby referred to for a particular description of said zones. The revised animal zone map dated May 20, 1974, shall become a part of this title." SECTION 7. This ordinance shall take effect and be in full force and effect thirty (30) days from and after its passage, and before the expira- tion of fifteen (15) days after its passage, shall be published once in the Orange Coast Daily Pilot, a newspaper of general circulation printed and published in the City of Costa Mesa, together with the names of the members of the City Council voting for and against the same. PASSED AND ADOPTED this 3rd day of June, 1974. ATTEST: City Clerk of the City of C a Mesa - 2 - • i,ei"1444/ /.. - - Mayor of the City of Costa Mesa STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) COUNTY OF ORANGE ) SS CITY OF COSTA MESA ) I, EILEEN P. PHINNEY, City Clerk and ex -officio Clerk of the City Council of the City of Costa Mesa, hereby certify that the above and foregoing Ordinance No. 74-33 was introduced and considered section by section at a regular meeting of said City Council held on the 20th day of May, 1974, and thereafter passed and adopted as a whole at a regular meeting of said City Council held on the 3rd day of June, 1974, by the following roll call vote: AYES: COUNCIL MEMBERS: Wilson, Hammett, Pinkley, Raciti Hertzog NOES: COUNCIL MEMBERS: None ABSENT: COUNCIL MEMBERS: None IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereby set my hand and affixed the Seal of the City of Costa Mesa this 4th day of June, 1974. City Clerk and ex -officio Cler the City Council of the City of Cista Mesa - 3 - ,��♦�� t , i ~ / �^ i \ 1.77 \$ ^✓,vv 1 .� \ r f � i �4 f 8N O � i i1tN4:t � "� �W is t O t' 1 1 , Y 1 r f � Y f , yvx,, Z i z z r i "•�.' ,'