HomeMy WebLinkAbout2110 Ordinance - RecordedORDINANCE NO. 2110
AN ORDINANCE amending Section 3.04.190 of the Pasco Municipal Code
relating to license fees.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PASCO DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOUS:
Section 1. That Section 8.04.190 of the Pasco Municipal Code be
and the same is hereby amended to .read as follows:
P.M.C. 8.04.190 -LICENSE REQUIRED. Except as provided in
Section 3.04.2.60, no owner shall keep or permit any dog over seven
months of age within the city, unless such dog is licensed and a
license tag attached as provided in this chapter.
(a) Licenses shall be issued annually by the Benton -Franklin
County humane society for the city, upon payment of the required city
license fee after January lst of each year and shall be valid until
time last day of February of the next following year. The Benton -
Franklin County humane society shall cause to be published in the
official newspaper and announced by all local radio stations, once
a year, a notice of the licensing provisions of this chapter.
(b) Before a license is issued for any dog, the owner must present
evidence that the dog has been vaccinated against rabies. Such
evidence shall be a certificate of vaccination signed by a licensed
veterinarian, and the certificate shall show that the vaccination does
not expire within six months from the effective date of the dog license.
(c) As proof that a dog has been neutered (spayed or castrated)
-the license applicant shall exhibit to the licenser a certificate
from a licensed veterinarian to that effect.
(d) The following license fees shall be paid to the Benton -
Franklin County humane society or the city upon application for a
dog license:
(1) Eight dollars and fifty cents for each neutered male or
neutered female dog;
(2) Ten dollars for each female or male dog not neutered or
castrated;
EXCEPT that dogs trained -to assist blind persons shall be licensed
without fee; provided, that there shall be allowed an exclusion for
the poor and infirm as follows:
Poor and Infirm: A license -fee of fifty cents shall be charged
to a head of household, over sixty-five years of age, provided only
one dog, is owned in the household or dwelling unit, and an affidavit
of indigency has been -filed with the director of the finance department.
(e) In addition to the license fee prescribed by this section,
each applicant who applies after the last. day of February, the time
when he is required to have the license, shall pay a penalty often
dollars.
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(f) The license fees shall not apply to dogs owned by non-
residents temporarily within the city for a period of not more than
thirty days, but shall apply to the dogs of owners becoming residents
of the city within thirty days after establishing such residence.
(g) Any dog becoming seven months of age after the last day of
February shall be licensed and registered and the license fee paid
thereon.
Section 2. This ordinance shall become effective on January 1,
1980, upon its passage and publication as required by law.
PASSED by the City Council of the City of Pasco this 19 day
of Noyember 1979.
Chet Bailie, Mayor
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D his J. De.Fe e, City Attorney