Every person within the City owning, possessing, controlling, harboring or keeping any dog over four months of age shall procure a dog license tag for each dog, as long as ownership of the dog continues, or within ten days after acquiring or bringing into the City any dog over the age of four months, and annually thereafter, so long as the ownership of the dog continues.
(Ord. 97-73 § 2.1, 1973)
This chapter does not apply to dogs found within the City under any of the following conditions:
A. 
When the dog is owned by, or in the care of, any person who is a nonresident or who is traveling through the City, or who is temporarily sojourning therein for a period of not exceeding thirty days, if the dog is not permitted to run at large;
B. 
When the dog is brought into the City and kept therein for a period not exceeding thirty days, for the exclusive purpose of entering the dog in any bench show, dog exhibition, field trials or competition, if the dog is not permitted to run at large;
C. 
When the dog is brought or sent into the area for the exclusive purpose of receiving veterinary care in any dog hospital, if the dog is not permitted to run at large.
(Ord. 97-73 § 2.2, 1973)
A. 
The effective period of each dog license issued shall be for the calendar year following the date of issuance of said license. Said license shall expire one calendar year from the date of issuance and shall be renewed on or before said expiration date.
B. 
The licensing official is hereby authorized to extend the term of any license required by this chapter for a period not to exceed thirty days to ensure that the owner of the animal to be licensed shall have an animal license and valid rabies certificate consisting of the same term.
(Ord. 97-73 § 2.3, 1973; Ord. 498-97 § 1, 1997)
The owner shall state at the time application is made, upon standard printed forms of application provided for such purpose, his or her name and address and the name, breed, color, age and sex of each dog for which application is made.
(Ord. 97-73 § 2.4, 1973)
As a condition for the issuance of a license all applicants for such license shall procure and deliver to the licensing authority a certificate issued by a duly licensed veterinarian certifying that the dog to be licensed has been administered an anti-rabies vaccination within thirty days prior to the issuance of the license, or has received anti-rabies vaccination sufficient to immunize the dog against rabies for the current license period.
(Ord. 97-73 § 2.5, 1973)
A metallic tag and license certificate with corresponding number shall be furnished by the licensing authority, upon payment of the appropriate fee prescribed by a resolution adopted by the City Council.
(Ord. 97-73 § 2.6, 1973)
The licensing authority shall keep a record of the name of such owner or person making payment of said license fee and to whom a certificate and tag shall have been issued, and the number and date of such certificate and such tag. Such metal tag issued shall be securely fixed to a collar, harness, or other device to be worn at all times by the dog for whom the registration is issued.
(Ord. 97-73 § 2.7, 1973)
No person shall fail or refuse to show to the City Manager, his or her representatives or a Police Officer the license certificate and the tag for any duly registered dog kept or remaining within any home or upon any enclosed premises under his or her immediate control.
(Ord. 97-73 § 2.8, 1973)
No person shall imitate or counterfeit the tags prescribed by this chapter, or counterfeit the tags prescribed by this chapter, or have in his or her possession any imitation or counterfeit tags.
(Ord. 97-73 § 2.11, 1973)
"Seeing eye" dogs owned and actually used by a blind person are exempt from a license fee as specified in this chapter.
(Ord. 97-73 § 5.2, 1973)
Any dog owned by the County or City and used by the Sheriff or Police Department in the performance of the functions or duties of such department is exempt from a license fee as specified in this chapter.
(Ord. 97-73 § 5.3, 1973)
It is the intent of the City in enacting the ordinance codified in this chapter that the existing dog license fee schedule be continued and not be affected by the enactment of this chapter until the fee schedule is specifically amended, modified or superseded by request of the City Council pursuant to this chapter.
(Ord. 97-73 § 10, 1973)