HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD 162 (1961) ORDINANCE NO. 162
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY 0F TUSTIN AMENDING SECTION
1 AND SECTION 3 OF ORDINANCE NO. 96.
The City Council of the City of Tustin does ordain as
follows:
That Section 1 of Ordinance No. 91 of the City of Tustin,
California, be amended to read as follows:
Section 1. DEFINITIONS.
Whenever in this Ordinance the following terms are used
they shall be deemed and construed to have the meaning ascribed
to them in this Section unless it is apparent from the context
thereof that some other meaning is intended.
ANIMAL CONTROL ~t~N shall mean the employee of the City
who is charged with the enforcement of the provisions of this
Ordinance and his regularly appointed deputies.
DOG shall mean any male, female or neuter dog over the
age of four (4) months.
OWNER shall mean any person having title to, keeping,
or harboring any dog for a period of seven (7) consecutive days,
except a duly licensed veterinarian having cust~ for the purposes
of treatment or boarding.
QUARANTINE shall mean the isolation of a dog or puppy
under four (4) months of age, in a substantial enclosure so that
said animal cannot be subject to contact with other animals or
unauthorized persons.
STRAY DOG shall mean any dog which is subject to being
impounded by the Animal Control Man pursuant to the provisions of
this Ordinance.
UNLICENSED DOG shall mean any dog for which the license
tax has not been paid for the current calendar year~~ or any dog to
which a current license tag is not attached as provided for in
this Ordinance.
VACCINATION shall mean the inoculation of a dog
with a vaccine spproved by the Health Officer of the City of
Tustin.
VICIOUS DOG Shall memany dog which is known to
have bitten any person.
That Section 3 of Ordinance No. 91 of the City of
Tustin, California, be amended to read as follows:
SectiOn 3. LICENSE TAX IMPOSED.
A license tax is hereby levied on all dogs Over
the age of four (4) months, owned, kept, harbored, or in the
cstndy or under the control of any person within the City, at
the rate of Two ($2.00) Dollars for each dog for each calendar
year, from January i of each calendar year to December 31, payable
in adance for the whole year. Any owner who fails or refuses to
pay said license tax on or before the first day of February of
the year is guilty of a misdemeanor. Such license tax shall be
deemed a debt due the'City from the owner an~, in addition to
the criminal penalties of this Ordinance provided for, such debt
may be collected in the name of the City as ahy other debt may be
odlected. The foregoing license tax shall not apply to any dog
while kept or maintained in a duly licensed kennel nor to any
seeing-eye dogs properly trained to assist blind persons when
such dogs are actually being used by b~ind ~ersons for the purpose
of aiding them in going from place to place.
PASSED AND ADOPTED at a regular meeting of the City
Council, held on the 18th day of December, 1961.
ATTEST: ~ Mayor
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) SS.
CITY OF TUSTIN )
RUTH C. POE, City ~lerk and ex-officio Clerk of the City
Council of the City of Tustin, California, does hereby
certify that the whole number of the members of the City
Council of the City of Tustin is five; that the above and
foregoing Ordinance was duly and regularly introduced and
read at the regular meeting of the City Council held on
the 4th day of December, 1961, and was given its second
reading and duly passed and adopted at a regular mee~ting
held on the 18th day of December, 1961, by the following
vote:
AYES: COUNCILMEN; Kidd, Humeston, Byrd, Sheridan, mack
NOESi COUNCILMEN: None
ABSENT: COUNCILMEN: None
"' C TY CLERK '~
City . , California