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Home My WebLink About0726 'i ~' I \... t\" 'Y ~ 't." ....~ ,<. ",,' ORDINANCE NO. 726 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ARCADIA REGULATING THE Kh~PING OF D01~STIC ANI11ALS, POULTRY AND RABBITS IN THE CITY OF ARCADIA, AND FIXING PENALTIES FOR THE VICDLATION THEREOF. THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ARCADIA DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. The word "person" when used in this ordinance shall include an indiv.idual, firm or corporation, or any association of one or more persons, and the singular shall include the plural and the plural the singular. SECTION 2. The term "animals", herein referred to, shall include horses, ponies, mules, burros, jacks and jennies, cows, bulls, calves, heifers, sheep, goats, swine, hogs, pigs, and all other domestic or domesticated an~nals other than household pets. The term "rabbits, poultry and domestic fowls", herein referred to, shall include rabbits, pigeons, chickens, chicks, capons, ducks, geese, turkeys, doves, squabs, and all similar or other domestic or domesticated fowls or birds other than household pets. The term "household pets", herein referred to, shall include cats, dogs, canaries, parrots, and other kindred birds and animals usually mr ordinarily kept as household pets, provided that this ordinance is not intended to and does not supersede Ordinance No. 600 of the City of Arcadia, as amended, imposing a license tax upon dogs and regulating the running at large, licensing and impounding of dogs, but is intended to and does supplement such other regulatory ordinances as are now in effect covering the subject matter. SECTION 3. The City Council does hereby find and determine that the keeping of rabbits, poultry, domestic fowls and animals, other than household pets, within the city limits of the City of Arcadia, unless properly regulated as to location and sanitary conditions, is detrimental to the public health, safety, comfort and general welfare and that the public interest require that the said City Council prescribe regulations for the more efficient control thereof. -1- ,,;&(9 ".:0 U/1.d 7;?6" SECTION 4. It shall be unlawful for any person owning or having control of any animals, rabbits, poultry or domestic fowls, other than household pets, to permit the same to run or go or be at large upon the premises of any other person, without permission so to do, or the street or public places, within the City of Arcadia. SECTION 5. It shall be unlawful for any person to occupy, maintain, or cause or permit another person to occupy or maintain, any building, lot, premises, vehicle or any other place in the City of Arcadia in such a condition as to permit the breeding or harboring therein or thereon of rats, mice, fleas, bedbugs, cockroaches, lice, flies or any other vermin. SECTION 6. It shall be unlawful for any person to permit an accumulation of any material that may serve as a harborage for rats, unless such material be elevated not less than eighteen (18) inchas above ground with a clear intervening space thereunder. SECTION 7. It shall be unlawful for any person to burn, or suffer or permit to be burned, upon any premises owned, occupied or conducted by him, in the city of Arcadia, any bone, feathers, offal, nesh" hide 'i. or hair. q\, SECTION 8. .~'\)~1 ~}~ ~~. rabbits, poultry or domestic fowls, other than household pets, within "'r::,~'\)' Mt"DW thirty-five (35) feet of any residence or dwelling house or other o%;:f:I'.~[O 1\' "0 <j31 .0 791 OR\).'" building used for the school, '. b habitation of human beings, or of any [.....10.0 :~;~~,";~r~I<ff..hoSPital or similar ins titution, or within sixty-five (65) feet of It shall be unlawfu~ for any person to keep any animals, any public street or sidewalk, in said city. SECTION 9. It shall be unlawful for any person to bury or inhume the carcass of any animal or the body of any dead rabbit, poultry or domestic fowl, or any portion thereof, in such a manner that there is less than three (3) feet of soil covering such carcass or body. SECTION 10. It shall be unlawful for any person to keep or maintain, or suffer or permit to be kept or maintained, any animal, rabbit, poultry or domestic fowl in any yard, stable, coop, hutch, corral, shed, building -2- , . ,...). //.AJ 726 or poultry house in the City of Arcadia in a foul or insanitary condition. SECTION 11. It shall be unlawful for any person keeping or main- ~t.~\)tl) <;".1 I'l;l\\\),\\o.q-caining animals, rabbits, poultry or domestic fowls within the City of Arcadia to fail, refuse or neglect to cause the manure or droppings ~~ therefrom to be regularly removed from the premises Where such animals, ~v 'hIqVj ~~ rabbits, poultry or domestic fowls are being kept or maintained and pending such removal to keep or deposit all such manure or droppings 'M~~I in a tight box which shall be constructed and maintained in a manner }flf) 'O~qo~ oiA 0" satisfactory to the Health Officer of the City of Arcadia so as to }/,I render the seme free from noxious odors. SECTION 12. It shall be the duty of the Health Department of the City of Arcadia to enter upon any lot, yard, enclosure or other premises for the purpose of inspecting such premises or other place to ascertain if any violation of the g'O,'visions of this ordinance shall exist, or if 'Z the Health Department has reason to believe any violation of the pro- visions of this ordinance shall exist and whenever any such violation shall be found to exist, in the opinion of the Health Department, to notify in writing any person o\vning or having control of, or acting as agent for, leasing or occupying, such premises, or other place, to ,correct the conditions which are in violation of this ordinance, vdthin a reason- able time to be stated in such notice. SECTION 13. If any provision of this ordinance, or its application to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, the remainder of the ordinance, or the application of the provision to other persons or circumstances, shall not be affected. SECTION 14. It shall be unlawful for any person to violate any provision, or to fail to comply with any requirement, of this ordinance. Any person violating any of the provisions of this ordinance or failing to comply with any of its provisions shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punishable by a fine of not more than Three Hundred Dollars ($300.00) or by imprisonment in the Arcadia City Jail or in thl3 Los ' Angeles County Jail, at the discretion of the committing magistrate, for a period of not to exceed three (3) months, y -3- 0r/7":?/ or by both such fine and imprisonment. Each such person shall be guilty of a separate offense for each and every day during any portion of which a violation of any of the provisions of this ordinance is committed, continues or permitted by such person. In addition to the penalties hereinabove provided, any condition caused or permitted to exist in violation of any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be deemed a public nuisance and may be summarily abated as such by the officers of said City of Arcadia. SECTION 15. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of this ordinance and prioD to the expiration of fifteen (15) days from the passage thereof shall cause the same to be published once in the Arcadia Tribune and Arcadia News, a newspaper of general circulation, published and circulated in the City of Arcadia, and thirty days from and after the final passage thereof said ordinance shall take effect and be in force. I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance was adopted at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Arcadia, held on the 5th day of October, 1948, by the affirmative vote of gt least three Councilmen, to wit: AYES: Councilmen Boucher, Klomp, Libby, Nugent and Russell NOES: None he C~ty of Arcadia ABSENT: None SIGNED Alf~ APPROVED this 5th day of October, 1948. /L~ CITY cm ~/~ //PJ.~~/L/ ~ayor of the City of Arcadia ATTEST: -4- OAe/' 7--<'6