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ORDINANCE NO.
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF HUNTINGTON BEACH,
CALIFORNIA, AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 189, ENTITLED
"AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF HUNTINGTON BEACH,
ESTABLISHING THE OFFICE OF POUNDMASTER AND
DEFINING HIS DUTIES, MAKING IT UNLAWFUL TO PERMIT
CERTAIN ANIMALS TO RUN AT LARGE AND PROVIDING
FOR IMPOUNDING FEES, DOG LICENSES AND FEES
THEREFOR" , BY ADDING A NEW SECTION THERETO.
The City Council of the City of Huntington Beach,
California, do ordain as follows:
Section 1: Section 9 of Ordinance No. 189 is
hereby amended so as to read as follows:
Section 9: It shall be unlawful for any .person,
owning or having charge, care or control of any dog, to
have or to keep the same within the City of Huntington
Beach, and no dog shall be permitted to be or remain
within said City, unless there shall be attached to such
dog a collar on which there shall be a metal tag, obtained
from the City Tax and License Collector of said City, as
hereinafter provided, and inscribed as hereinafter provided.
The said City Tax and License Collector is hereby authorized
and directed to procure each year, prior to the first day of
April, such number of tags as may be sufficient for use
during the year, with the year plainly inscribed thereon.
Said tags shall be effective until the 3lst day of March
of the year next ensuing, and no longer. Said Tax and
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License Collector shall furnish tags to the owners or per-
sons having charge, care or control thereof, applying there-
for prior to August 1st of the year for which such tag is
issued or-within four (4) calendar months of the time when
the dog for which application is made was acquired by the
applicant, for the sum of ,O U for each male dog and
for each spayed female dog, and the sum of for
each female dog. If application is made after August 1st
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of the year for which such tax is issued, and more than
four (4) cUendar months after the dog for which application
is made, was acquired by the applicant, the fee therefor
shall be increased % 8.�`�'- ; provided that if appli-
cation is made for a dog which has been brought into the
City of Huntington Beach after October lst of the year
for which such tag is issued, the fee therefor shall be
one-half of the regular fee as herein provided. The City
Tax and License Collector shall keep a register, wherein
shall be kept the name of the owner to whom tag has been
issued and the number and date thereof.
Section 2: A New Section shall be added to Ordinance
No. 189, the same to be inserted between Section 12 and
Section 13, and shall be known as Section 12(a) , the same
to read as follows :
Section 12(a) : Nothing in this ordinance shall be
construed as prohibiting the City of Huntington Beach from
entering into an agreement with any other Municipal Cor-
poration within the County of Orange, or the County of
Orange, for the purpose of impounding, caring for or
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disposing of dogs delivered to the poundmaster, providing,
that in the event of any such agreement the poundmaster
of the City -of Huntington Beach, or the person to whom
,sAid dogs are delivered in the City of Huntington Beach,
shall deliver the dogs to the impounding agency as pro-
vided in said agreement and shall post a notice describ-
ing the dog anpd stating that said dog has been delivered
to (X / , in accord nce with an agreement
and that the said dog may be secured from said impounding
agency upon the payment of the fees therefor not later
than four (4) days after the said delivery. Said notice
shall be posted in a public place within the City of
Huntington Beach.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the City
of Huntington Beach, California, this 2L day of ,
1947.
'MAYOR
ATTEST:
City Glerk
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
County of Orange ) s s
City of Huntington Beach )
I, C . R. FURR, the duly elected, qualified and
acting City Clerk of the City of Huntington Beach and
ex-officio '-'lerk of the City Council of said City of
Huntington Beach, do hereby certify that the whole number
of members of the City Council of the City of Huntington
r Beach is five ; that the foregoing Ordinance was first
read to said City Council at a
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meeting Hereof held on the 7 day of a&i , 19477
and was again read to said City Council a
1LC meeting thereof held on the oA / day of
, 1947, and was passed and adopted by
the ffirmative vote of more than a majority of all the
members of said City Council as follows:
AYES: Councilmen:
NOES: Councilmen:
ABSENT: Councilmen:
City Clerk and ex-officio Clerk
of the City Council of the City
0.of Huntington Beach, California.
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