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HomeMy WebLinkAbout~Master - Repealing Certain Sections of Municipal Code; Relating to Dog Licenses ORDI ACE NO, 2278 AN ORDnIZME REPEALING SECTIONS 5-2023, 5-2024, 5-2025, 5-2026, 5-2027, 5-2030, 5-2031, 5-2032, AND 5-2033 OF THE MUNICIPAL CODE OF THE CITY OF AMES, IOWA; ESTABLISHING NEW SECTIONS TO BE NUMBERED SECTIONS 5-2030, 5-2031, 5-2032, AND 5-2033 MAKING THE KEEPING OF AN UNVACCINATED DOG A MISDEMEANOR; PROVIDING FOR THE IMPOUNDMENT OF UNTAGGED DOGS ; PRESCRIBING THE REQUIRE- MENTS FOR RELEASE OF IMPOUNDED DOGS; REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES AND PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT HEREWITH AND ESTABLISHING AN EFFECTIVE DATE, IT IS ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF AMES, IOWA: Section 1. Sections 5-2023, 5-2024, 5-2025, 5-2026, 5-2027, 5-2030, 5-2031, 5-2032, and 5-2033 of the Municipal Code of the City of Ames, Iowa, as hitherto existing is hereby repealed. Section 2 . New sections to be numbered 5-2030, 5-2031, 5-2032, and 5-2033 are hereby added to the Municipal Code of the City of Ames, Iowa, and are as follows : Sec. 5-2030. Unvaccinated dogs. Any person who owns, keeps, or harbors a dog without valid evidence of current and prescribed vaccination is guilty of a misdemeanor. Sec. 5-2031. No city license required. The vaccination tag required under Sec. 5-2029 being adequate to provide registration of dogs, no city license is required. Sec. 5-2032 . Untagged dogs to be impounded. Any dog found without a valid rabies vaccination tag and for which no valid rabies vaccination certificate can be produced shall be apprehended and impounded. Sec. 5-2033. Redemption of impounded dogs. When a dog has been apprehended and impounded, the enforcement agent shall give written notice in not less than two (2) days to the owner if known. An owner may redeem such a dog by having it immediately and duly vaccinated, producing the required certificate of vaccination, and by payingto the finarr_=e office a fee of two dollars ($2.00) and paying the enforcement officer a daily fee of one dollar ($1. 00) for each day or fraction thereof that the dog has been impounded. Section 3. All ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. Section 4. This ordinance is in full force and effect from and after its passage and publication as provided by law. Passed this 21st day of January , 1969. Lo ise Whitcome, City Clerk Stuart N. Smith, Mayor ORDINANCE NO. 2278 12/17/68 Moved by Judge—Fisher the ordinance pass on lst reading Aye: Thurston, Judge, Fellinger, Newell, LeBaron, Fisher Nay: None Ordinance declared passed on lst reading. 1/7/69 Moved by Fisher--Newell the ordinance pass on 2nd reading,. Aye : Thurston, Judge, Fellinger, Newell, LeBaron, Fisher, Nay: None Ordinance declared passed on 2nd reading. 1/21/69 Moved by Newell--Fisher the ordinance pass on final reading. Aye : Thurston, Judge, Fellinger, Novell, Fisher Nay: None Absent: LeBaron Ordinance declared adopted.