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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance No. 08-1962L MICROFILMED 3- M -ft REPELED' ORDINANCE NUMBER _6 -Z AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR THE LICENSING OF ALL CATS AND DOGS WITHIN THE CORPORATE LIMITS or THE CITY OP CAPE CANAVERAL; PROHIBITING DOGS FROM RUNNING AT LARGE WITHIN THE CORPORATE LIMITS OF THE CITY Or CAPE CANAVERAL; AUTHORIZING THE IMPOUND- ING AND DESTRUCTION OF CATS AND DOGS; PROVIDING A PENALTY FOP. THE VIOLATION HEREOF; PROVIDING THE METHOD OF PUBLICATION HEREOF; AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL or THE CITY Or CAPE CA,IAVER.AL, FLORIDA, AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. DEFINITION Or TERMS. As used in this ordinance, unless the context otherwise indicates: (a) "Cat and Dog" shall be intended to mean both male and female. (b) "OWNER" shall be intended to mean any person or .persons, firm, association or corporation owning, keening; or harboring a dog or cat. (c) "At large" shall be intended to neap off the premises of the owner', and not under the .control of the owner or member of his immediate family either by leash, cord, chain or otherwise. A dor accompanied by it's owner or member of the owner's immediate family, with or without leash, is not at larEe. SECTION 2. LICENSE: AND P.EGISTRATION REQUIRED. All cats or dogs kent, harbored, or maintained by their owners in the City of Cape Canaveral shall be licensed and registered if over three (3) months of are. Cat and Dog licenses shall be issued by the City Clerk upon payment of a license tax of $1.00 for each male or spayed female, and $1.00 for each unspayed female. OR 8 - 62 PAGE1 OF6 MICROFILMED 3-1s-& The owner ;hall state at the time application is made for such license and upon printed forms provided for such purpose his name and address, and the name, breed, color and sex of each cat and dog otmcd or kept by him. The provisions of this section shall not be intended to apply to cats and dogs whose owners are nonresidents temporarily within the City, nor to dogs or cats brought into the City for the purpose of rarticinatirg in any cat or dog show, nor to "seeing -eye" dogs properly trained to assist blind persons when such dogs are actually being used by blind persons for the purpose of aiding them in going from place to place. SECTION 3. Pll'LII'IC AT LAPEL rPOH13ITCD. It shall be unlawful to permit any doC to run at large. SLCTION 4.. IMPO1j:IDI?1r. It shall be the duty of every police officer or dogcatcher to apprehend any dog, found running at large .contrary to the provisions of Section 3 and to impound such dog in the City nourd or other suitable nlace. The round - master (or some other dp,;irnated official) upon recr_ivinr any dog or cat shall make a complete registry, entering the breed, color, and sex of such dog and whether licensed. SECTION S. '.;pmt CP. TO 7dRLr, n'1D 'iot later than three (3) days after the im,oundinp of any dog or oat the owner shall be notified, or if the owner of the dog or cat is unkncwn written notice ^hall be posted fcr five (5) clays at two (2) places in the City of Cane Caneveral, namely, the City :tell, and the cst nfrice, r!cneribinr the do^ or cat anc! the place and time cf tat.i.nr. The miner of any coL or cat no im- pounded may reclaim such c:or or cct uper. p .anent of t`r^_ license fee, if unpaid, and cf all costs and charges ir:eurred by the City of Cane Can:aver 1 for inscundinr and raintenance cf such OR 8 - 62 PAGEZ OF(. MIGROFILMED dog or cat. The following, charges shall be paid to the City of Cape Canaveral: For impoundinr any dog or cat --------- $2.00 For keeninp inv dor or cat ------------ $1.00 daily For givinr notice --------------------- S2.00 SECTION 6. DISPOSITION OF UNCLAIMED OP. IMrECTED DOGS OP. CATS. It shall be the duty of theDound- master to keep all dogs or cats so impounded for a period of seven (7) days. If at the expiration of seven (7) days from the date of notice to the owner or the posting'of notice such dog or cat shall not have been redeemed, it may be destroyed or given by the humane officer to another person. Any unlicensed dog or cat required by law to be licensed, or any dog or cat which appears to he suffering from rabies or affected with hydrophobia, mange or other infectious or dangerous disease shall not be released but may be forthwith destroved. SECTION 7. co,iriMEMENT OF CERTAIN DOCS OR CATS. No dop or cat of fierce, dangerous or vicious propensities and no female dog in heat, :whether licensed or not, shall be allow- . ed to run at .large or upon the premises of one other thar. the owner. If any such dog or cat is found running, at large in violation of this provision it shall be taken and impounded and shall not be released exr-ept upon approval of the Hunane Officer, Mayor, or an Alderman after payment of the fees ; rovided in Section 5; provided however, that if any dangerous fierce, or vicious dog or cat so found at large, cannot be safely taken up and impounded, such dog or cat nay be slain by any policeman. SECTION B. MUZZLINC. '7henever it becomes necessary to saferuard the public from the dangers of hydrophobia, the Mayor, if he deems it necessary, shall issue a proclanetion ordering every person owning or ?:coping a dog or cat to -3-- OR 8 - 62 PAGES OF4 MICROFILMEL) confine it 'securely on his promises unless such dog or cat 'shall have .a muzzle of sufficent strength to prevent its biting any person. Any unmuzzled dog or cat running at large during, the time of the proclamation shall be seized and impounded, unless noticeably infected with rabies.. All dogs or cats so noticeably infected with rabies and displaying vicious pro - pensities shall be killed by the Police Department without notice to the owner. Dogs or cats impounded during the first two days of such proclamation shall, if claimed within five (5) days, be released to the owner, unless infected with rabies, upon payment of the impounding, charges provided in Section 5. If unclaimed after that period, such dog or cat may be summarily destroyed. SECTION 9. PADIES-- FIOTICE . If a dog or cat is believed to have rabies or has been bitten by a doe or cat suspected of having rabies, such dog or cat shall be confined by it leash or chain on the owner's premises and shall be placed under the observation of a veterinarian at the expense of the owner for a Period of two (2) weeks. The owner -shall notify the round- master of the fact that his dog or cat has been exposed to rabies and at his discretion the hound - master is empowered to have such dog or cat removed from the owner's premises to a veterinary hospital and there placed 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 or cat has rabies to allow such dog or cat to be taken off his premises or beyond the limits of the City without the written permission of the pound - master. Every owner, or other person, upon ascertaining a dog or cat is rebid shall immediately notify the pound- master or policeman who shall either remove the dog or cat to the pound or summarily destroy it. - -4 -- OR 8 62 PAGE OF(. MICROHLi,FU 3- /.a -so If any doe or cat is believed to have rabies or any other contaricus dinease, and has not been confined to the nremises of the owner as above . required, such dos or cat shall be nicked up and impounded by the humane officer until the said dog or cat is cured . in the discretion of the humane officer. The humane officer shall be the sole judge as to the condition of such dog or cat. SECTION 10... VACCINATION. It shall be unlawful for the owner of any dog, or cat to keep or maintain such dog or cat unless it shall have been vaccinated by a licensed veterinary .surgeon with anit- rabies vaccine, within one (1) year preceding the date on which such dog or cat is kept or maintained. SECTION 11. NUISANCE. When at least three (3) citizens of the City of Cape Canaveral, residing in different residences, shall report to the City that a dop or cat is a nuisance, either by continuous barking or other annoyance, the owner of such dog or cat shall be notified by the City that his dog or cat is a nuisance, and a hearing shall be set before the City Judge or P!ayor of Cape Canaveral cn such charges and if, upon such hearing, such dog or cat shall be declared to be a nuisance the owner shall have seven (7) days to rectify the nuisance and if such nuisance is not rectified the owner shall be deemed Guilty of a misdeameanor and punished as .provided in this ordinance. SECTION 12. PENALTIES. Any owner found violating any provision of this ordinance shall be guilty of a misdeam- eanor and upcn conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $300.00, or imprisoned not exceeding 60 days, or by both such fine and imprisonment. 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