Ordinance - 479ORDINANCE NO.479
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF WEST COVINA,
CALIFORNIA, AMENDING SECTIONS 2 AND 6 OF ORDINANCE N0.171
REGULATING THE LICENSING OF -DOGS, AND -DECLARING THE URGENCY
HEREOF.,
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF WEST COVINA -DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1, That Section 2 of Ordinance No$171 of the
City of 'West Covina, entitled ItAN ORDINANCE REGULATING THE LICENSING
OF DOGS, MUZZLING AND RESTRAINT OF DOGS AT CERTAIN TIMES, VACCINATION
OF DOGS, PROVIDING FOR THE CONTROL AND ERADICATION OF RABIES IN THE
CITY OF WEST COVINARt adopted June 22, 1949, be and the same is
hereby amended so as to read'as follows:
"Section 2. Every person, association or corporation
owning or harboring a dog within the corporate limits
of the City of West Covina, Calif ornia , shall pay to
the Chief of Police an annual license fee of Three
Dollars ($3.00). It
SECTION 2. That -Section 6 of said Ordinance No.171 be and
the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows:
"Section 6. Every dog found running at large without a
numbered collar or license tag, as required by this
Ordinance, shall be by the Chief of Police or someone
designated by him, impounded at the City Pound and kept
there for a period of seventy-two hours,,within which
time if the ownership of the dog is proven and the owner
calls for it he shall be able to remove it; on the payment
of *Two :Dollars and Fifty Cents ($2.50), which shall go
to the credit of the city pound and (a) if such dog is
licensed and the collar bearing the license number is lost
or the license tag is lost, upon the replacement of such
at the expense of the owner, (b) if such dog is unlicensed,
upon the delivery of a certificate of vaccination to the
Chief of Police and the payment to him of the license fee
in accordance with the provisions of Section 2 hereof,and
thereupon such owner so reclaiming such dog shall be
entitled to a license and numbered tag as provided in
Sections 2 and 4 hereof. And if the ownership is not
proven within said time, then such dog shall be destroyed
in a humane manner under the direction of the City Pound
Master; provided, however, the Chief of Police may give
or sell any unredeemed dog that he would by this ordinance
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be authorized to destroy, to any person who shall
procure for such dog the necessary collar or collar
and tag with license number thereon, and furnish
the Chief of Police with a certificate of vaccination
as required by the provisions of Ordinance No.480
adopted concurrently herewith. 11
SECTION 3. That the immediate adoption of'this Ordinance
is urgently required for the preservation of the public peace,
. safety and general welfare and is hereby declared to be an urgency
measure therefor, and the facts constituting such urgency are as
follows: that the program of the City involving the vaccination
with rabies vaccine of all dogs in the City of West Covina will be
actively carried out early in July, 1956, and thereafter, and the
amendments herein to said Ordinance No.171 is essential to properly
carry out the purposes of said Ordinance No.171; that the establish-
ment of the regulations herein contained or the clarification of
existing regulations in said Ordinance No.171 without delay is
required to promote and preserve the public peace, health and safety
and to effectuate the purposes of said Ordinance.
SECTION 4. The City Clerkshall certify to the adoption
of this Ordinance and shall cause the same to be published once in
is the -West Covina Tribune, a newspaper of general circulation ub p lashed
,and circulated in the City of West Covina and thereupon and there-
after the .same shall take effect and be in force.
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I HEREBY CERTIFY that.the foregoing ordinance was
adopted at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City
of West Covina, held on the 25th day of June, 1956, by the
affirmative vote of at least three Councilmen, to wit:
AYES: Councilmen VERNON R. MOTT[NGER WAYNE CRUMLEYIAMES W. KAY DALE PTTTENGE
i NOES: / /I J JAY D. BROWN, AlAydj
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ABSENT: /V 0 /✓ L
City -Clerk oF the City o Wes-Wes-T Covina
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