Every person owning or controlling a kennel shall procure an
annual kennel license on or before February 15th of each year in accordance
with the procedure set forth in this title, which kennel license shall
be a license for all dogs kept therein.
(County code § 6-1.701)
The chief of the animal control division is authorized and directed
to have prepared suitable application forms for kennel licenses and
kennel license certificates as provided in this chapter.
(County code § 6-1.702)
The application forms for kennel licenses shall set forth the
name and address of the applicant, the location, including the address,
of the kennel, a description of the facility for housing the dogs,
and the number and description of the dogs to be kept in the kennel.
(County code § 6-1.703)
The kennel license fee shall be the sum of twenty-five dollars.
(County code § 6-1.704)
Upon the receipt of an application and license fee and penalties,
if any, the chief of the animal control division shall send copies
of the application to the health officer and to the building official
and planning official having jurisdiction over the territory where
the kennel is located for an investigation and report as to conformity
with the sanitation laws, building codes and planning and zoning laws,
respectively.
(County code § 6-1.708)
After the receipt of the sanitation, building code and planning
and zoning reports and making such investigations as he or she may
deem proper, the chief of the animal control division shall act on
the application as follows:
B.
He or
she may impose such conditions upon granting an application as are
reasonably necessary to bring a kennel into compliance with the provisions
of this title.
C.
He or
she shall deny the application if he or she does not make the findings
set forth in this section, or he or she may grant the application
subject to conditions.
(County code § 6-1.709)
The issuance of the license shall be endorsed upon the application
form by the person issuing the license. All license application forms
so endorsed shall be filed in the office of the chief of the animal
control division, and shall be at all times open for public inspection.
(County code § 6-1.710)
The issuance of a kennel license shall be evidenced by the issuance
of a kennel license certificate in a form determined by the chief
of the animal control division; however, kennel license certificates
shall bear the name of the city and the year of issuance and shall
be numbered serially.
(County code § 6-1.711)
The chief of the animal control division may notify all kennel
owners of record that a current license is due and a fee is payable.
(County code § 6-1.712)
A.
The owner of any kennel who fails to procure and pay for such license until after February 15th of any year shall nevertheless procure a kennel license until January 1st next ensuing and, except as otherwise provided in Section 6.24.110, shall pay in addition to the license fee a penalty in the sum of twenty-five dollars.
B.
The
owner of any kennel required to be licensed by this chapter for the
year immediately preceding the year in which an application for a
kennel license is filed, who failed to obtain a license for that kennel
for that year, shall pay, in addition to any other license fee or
penalty, a penalty of twenty-five dollars.
(County code § 6-1.705)
A.
The penalty provided for in Section 6.24.100 (A) of this chapter for the nonpayment of a license fee on or prior to February 15th in any year shall not apply to the owner of a kennel required to be licensed that has not been subject to the licensing requirement for more than ten days.
B.
The penalty provided for in Section 6.24.100(B) of this chapter for the nonpayment of a license fee for the immediately preceding year shall not apply to the owner of a kennel required to be licensed that had not been subject to the licensing requirement for more than ten days during the immediately preceding year.
(County code § 6-1.706)
If a kennel is used exclusively for housing dogs used exclusively
for law enforcement purposes by a public agency, no fee or penalty
shall be collected or received for such a kennel.
(County code § 6-1.707)
The chief of the animal control division may make an order suspending any kennel license issued pursuant to the provisions of this title upon a finding that there exists any fact which would have been a ground for refusal to issue a kennel license, or if there has been a violation of the provisions of Sections 6.16.010 through 6.16.070, 6.16.130 through 6.16.200 or 6.16.230 of this title, or if there has been a violation of the conditions imposed in any kennel license, or if the owner of the kennel, or any agent or employee employed therein, has been convicted of a violation of the provisions of Section 597 of the Penal Code of the State.
(County code § 6-1.713)
No order of suspension shall become effective until the chief
of the animal control division causes a copy thereof to be mailed
to the applicant by United States certified mail, postage prepaid,
return receipt requested, at the address set forth in his or her application.
(County code § 6-1.714)
The applicant or permittee may appeal an order of the chief
of the animal control division denying a license, issuing a license
subject to conditions, or suspending a license to the city council
by filing such appeal within fifteen days after the denial or granting
of an application with conditions or after the mailing of a notice
of revocation.
(County code § 6-1.715)
If no appeal is taken within the time specified for an appeal
following an order of suspension of a license, the license shall be
deemed revoked.
(County code § 6-1.716)
