Ordinance - 586ORDINANCE NO. 586
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF WEST COVINA, CALIFORNIA,
AMENDING ORDINANCE NO..4.80 RELATING TO THE.VACCINATION OF DOGS.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF WEST COVINA DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Section 1 of Ordinance No. 480, approved and
passed on the 25th day of June,1956, is hereby amended to read as
follows:
"SECTION 1. Every person keeping, harboring or having dog
over the age of four (4) months in the City of West Covina,
California, shall cause such dog to be vaccinated with rabies
vaccine within a period of thirty (30) days from the date of
harboring, keeping or having said dog within said City, or from
the date the said dog attains the age of four (4) months;
provided, however, that the aforesaid provision shall not apply
so as to require the vaccination of any dog which has been
vaccinated by a person licensed by the State of California, or
of any other state or nation, to practice veterinary medicine
where such vaccination has been completed within the period of
time as hereinafter prescribed in this Section 1. If chick
embryo vaccine was used in such vaccination, it must have been
completed within two (2) years prior to the date such dog was
kept, harbored or brought into the City of West Covina. If
tissue phenolized vaccine was used, such vaccination must have
been completed within one (1) year prior to the date such dog
was kept, harbored or brought into the City of West Covina."
SECTION 2. Paragraphs (a) and (b) of Section 4 of said
Ordinance No. 480 are hereby amended to read respectively as follows:
'tSECTION 4.
"(a) Every person applying for a dog license whether to
the Contracting Pound Service of the City or to the City Clerk
of the City must exhibit a certificate issued by a person
licensed by the State of California, or any other state or ration,
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to practice veterinary medicine which certificate shall show
that the dog for which the license shall be issued has been
vaccinated in accordance with the provisions of Sections 1 and
2 of this Ordinance. A license for such dog shall not be issued
unless and until such a certificate is so exhibited.
"(b) At the time a dog license of the City of West Covina.
is issued, it shall either be stamped with the date of vaccination
and the type of vaccine used as shown on said certificate, or
there shall be a vaccination tag issued by the Veterinarian at
time of vaccination. Either the license so stamped or the tag
;issued by the Veterinarian as aforesaid shall be worn at all
times by the dog for which said license is issued."
SECTION 3: Paragraph (d) of Section 5 of said Ordinance
No. 480 is hereby amended to read as follows:
"(d) Within seventy-two (72) hours after the receipt of
the aforesaid vaccination fee, or as soon thereafter as possible,
and except as provided in paragraph (e) of this Section 5, the
Pound Master shall cause the dog for whom the fee has been paid
to be vaccinated by a person licensed by the State of California
to practice veterinary medicine. After the dog has been
vaccinated, and if all the conditions of paragraph (c) of this,
Section 5 have been satisfied, the Pound Master shall release
such dog to the person keeping, harboring or having such dog
or to the person making application for the release of such dog."
SECTION 4. The City Clerk shall certify to the passage of
this ordinance and shall publish the same as required by law.
Passed and approved this 25th day of August , 1958.
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-' Mayor
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES SS.
CITY OF WEST COVINA
.I. ROBERT FLOTTEN, City Clerk of the City of West Covina,
do hereby certify that the.above ordinance No. 586 was regularly
introduced and placed upon its first reading at a regular meeting of
the City Council on the -11-tth- day of' August - - - -, 1958. That,
thereafter, said ordinance was duly adopted and passed at a regular
meeting of the City Council on the 2.5th- day of - August- , 1958, by
the following vote, to -wit:
AYES: Councilmen: Heath, Brown, Pittenger, Mayor Mottinger
NOES: Councilmen: None
ABSENT: Councilmen: Barnes
City Clerk
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