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ORDIHAHCE NO. 485.
Ali ORDn;;UfCE uF 'l\:aE CITY COUllCIL OF T;':;':: CITY OF AHClillIA
:r;,IPOSI1:G j. LICEi\S:2 TAj~ UPON DOGS 1>.1.f.0 RI:Gi.J;.JATIHG 'f:S R JrL;nm AT LArl.G:E,
tlc;:;rSIi:G AiTD Ii.;i:'OC!DING OF D0GS, l';'lOVIDIJ:G FOR TIlE COi.TROL AI:D
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T:aE CD.'Y COU1':CIL OF TI13 CITY OF ARCn'JIA DO;:;S ORDAIN .tiS
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SECTIO!: I., It shall be unlawful for any person o\'ming,
bavil1G an interest in, harborin~ or having the cure, char.:;e, control,
custody or possession of any dog, to allow. or pernut such dog to ~o free
M\E~OEoor to run at larGe in or upon any streot, public \1ay, square or 0 ther
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~~ public place in said City of Arcadia unless around the nec~ of oaid dOG
is a collar to which is attached a taG bearin~ the number marked thereon
by the Chief of Police of said City of Arcadia, provided however, that
this requirelJent sha.ll not apply to any do~ \'/hich accompanies i to ovmer,
such owner not bein3 a resident of said City of Arcadia.
SECTIOl! 2. That it shall be unla~'!ful for any person, firm
or corr>oration to keep more than three (3) dO:js, over the a:~e of six (6)
months each, in any place in said City of Arcadia, within tuo hundred
fifty (250) feet of any d\1ellinG~ in use or occupied by human bein~s,
other than a dV/ellin::; in use or occttpied by the ovmer of such d038.
SECTIOlT 3. It sball be unla\'/ful for any person, firm or
corporation, to carryon tho business, in the City of Arcadia, of' keeping
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dogs for breeding purposes or for the purpose of medical .treatment of do~s
or carine; for dot;s fl)r hire, wi thout first obtaining a pernu t from the
City Council of said City of Arcadia to keep or:n aintain a kennel and said
City Council sl:lall have the riGht to Grant or refuse such pe=it, in its
discretion, provided that if said City Council shall grant such permit,
said City Council may prescribe such conditions as it may deom n.;cesnD.ry
SECTION 4. It shall be unla~ful for an~ person,
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firm or
or advisable to prevent such business becoming a nuisance.
corporation to keep four or more dOGS, over the ~e of six (6) months
each, in said City of Arcadia at anyone place or in any pre"Jises in
said City of Arcadia,. in the charge or cori.trol of any person and over t\70
hundre.d fifty feet from any dwellin::;, in use or occupied by human bein3s,
other than a d~ellinG in use or occupied by the olmer of such doss, ~ithout
first obtaining a pelmit from said City Council to ~eep or maintain
a kennel and said Cit~ Council may Jrant or refuse such permit, in its
discretion, provided that if such pe~it is granted, said City Council
may prescribe such conditions as it may deem advisable or necessary to
prevent the keepins of such doss becomin:; a nuisance. ;:;fAUf
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SECTION 5. It shall be unlaTIful for any person, firm
or corporation to olm, harbor, or have the care, charge, control, custody
or possession of any dOG over the a3e of three months, \7ithin said City
of Arcadia, ~ithout paying the follo~ins license fees for such animal:
For each n~le dog and every spayed female dog, ~ 2.00, per
annum, and for every other female do~, the sum of 0 4.00, per annum, ~~~~~~.t~'
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provided ho~ever, that any person, firm or. corporation having a permit ~~
from the City Council of the City of Arcadia, to keep or maintain any7v!f:,
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kennel, shall pay in lieu of the above licensefeeH for all dogs over
three months of age, kept or maintained in such kennel, the following
license fees:
~~~~ bOO Ten or less dogs, the sum of $15.00 per annum; eleven to
thirty dOGS, f25.00 pOl' annum; thirty or more dOGS, ()50.00 per annum.
The owner or olmers of ever"J dog kennel in said City of Arcadia shall
make and file with the Chief of Police of said City of Arcadia,. on or
before the 30th day Of June of each and every year, a sworn statement of
each and every dog bou~ht, sold or kept in such kennel during
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The Chiof of Police is hereby authorized and directed to
procure each year on or before the first day of July, such number of
ta~s as may be sufficient for use during the year. Said ta;s shall be
effective until the ~;Oth day of June of the year next ensuin::; and no longer.
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Every pEIrson o,minc;, harborin~ or havinG the care, charge,
custody or poss,ession of such dog shall pay said license tax
thero!'or to the Chief' of Police or to the Pound ;Jaster of the City of
Arcadia on or before the first day of August of the ,ear for which said
taB is issued, or within one calendar month after the time when the dog
for which ap~lice.tioL is made was acquired by the applicant. If application
is made after August 1st of the year for which such tag is issued and more
than one calhendar month after the dog 1'01' \/hich application is made, was
acquired by applicant, the fee therefor shall be increased One (01.00)
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upon the payment of the fees aforesaid the Chief of Police
or the PoUnd Master shall issue to the person ol'minc;,hargoring, or having
the care, charge, control, custody or possession of such dog and making
application for such license, a ta8 which shall have stawped thereon the
date of the issuance and serial number of the license and shall also issue
a license containing a particular description of the animal for which
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said license and the ~orrespondinG ta~/intended and shall be for the same
license period as the ta~. Both the license and the taS shall be renewed
annually.
If, durinB the p3riod of time covered by said license and taB,
the taG issued should be lost, then the owner of the dog for which said
license \7as issued, shall be intitled to receive a duplicate tag from the
Chief of Police upon filins a \7ritten statewent that said tag is lost,
together with the payr1ent of a fee of twenty-five (25~) cents to cover the
cost of the duplicate tag.
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SECTION ti. That it shall be the duty of the Pound LIaster,
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his deputies or any police officer of said City of Arcadia
to take up all do~s found in any street, public ~ay, puolic
square or 0 ther public place in said City of Arcadia, or
upon any vacant, unoccupied or unenclosed lots, lands or
premises rrithin said City of Arcadiu, unless a tag be attached
thereto as ill this Ordinance provided. \Then such dog is
taken up by any Police Officer, same shall oe delivered by
him to said Pound I,laster, and all of said dO[5s shall be
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impounded in the Public Pound. ORO. No. boo
SECTION 7. Said Pound Master shall keep con-
fined in said Pound, properly provided \"lith food and '"later,
for three da~'s, all do~s impounded by him and until said
dog or dogs be redeemed by the pa~ent of <:1.00 Pound fee.
Said Pound J.laster shall post a description of all dogs
impounded by him in three puolic places in said City
of Arcadia for a P8riod of not Ie ss than three days and if
any dog is not redeemed ~ithin three days after the
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SECTION 8. The \'lord "dog" \'Ihenever used in
this Ordinance shall be deemed to include female as \'Iell
as male dogs.
SEC~ION 9. That it shall be unlarrful for any
person, firm or corpora.tion to imitate or counterfeit the
tags in this Ordinance provided for or to use any imitation
or counterfeit of such tag.
SECTION 10. It shall be unlarrful for any person to.
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rescue or attempt to rescue any animal mentioned herein from the
possession of the Pound Master while enjaged in conveyinG the same to
the City Pound, or after said animal is confined in said Pound. ~lP(~:(O&,OtJ
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SECTION 11. Said Chief of Police and the Pound J.iaster.
shall each pay over weekly to the City Treasurer all sums collected by
him as heroin provided and make a monthly report to said City Council
of his proceedings he):>eunder.
SECTI::JN 12. The terms "unenclosed lot or premises" as used
in this Ordinance, is hereby defined as meaning any lot, land or premises
. not enclosed .in SUC;:1 manner as to prevent any doe; confined
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d03S shall be secur1ely strapped or fastened to the head of the dog and
SECTION 13.
All muzzles or apparatus for the muzzling of
shall be so made and applied that the same completely surrounds the jaw
and nose of the dog on which the same is fastened and shall be so arranged
as to prevent the dog from bitin::; any person or thing, but so as to permit
the opening of the mouth of such animal, allowi!l{; it to breathe and drink
with freedom.
SECTION 14. The Chief of Police and his deputies and the
Pound Master or any other person employed for that purpose by swhdCity
Council, shall be and they are hereby authorized and empowered to capture
every dog not muzzlE,d as required by this Ordinance and found .going free
or running at large in or upon any public road or highway or any other
public place or in ell' upon any u'1enclosed lot or premises in said City of
Arcadia, or in case such 9fficer or person shall upon pursuit be unable
to capture such dog, such .officer or person shall be authorized and empowered
to. kill such dog.
SECTION 15. All dogs so captured by said officer or person
shall be examined by. the City Health Officer and it shall be the duty
of such City Health Officer when called upon to examine any such do~,
to ascertain whether or not such dog is afflicted with rabies. Any dog
found by said City Health Officer upon examination to be so afflicted
shall be at once killed by the person having possession thereof, and any
dog found not
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time for proper observation thereof, shall be returned to the O,7ner
thereof upon the p2,yment of the expenses incurred in impounding such dog,
which shall not exc:eed fifty cents per day.
The City Health Officer is hereby authorized to provide for
the care of the dogs captured and held pursuant to the prOVisions of
this Ordinance, and the expenses incurred thereby shall, in cases where
such dogs are not reclaimed, be paid.by the City of Arcadia not exceed-
ing fifty cents per day for each dog.
Every person who kills any doS, as herein
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or destroy the same.
If any dog is found not to be afflicted vith rabies and is
not reclaimed by the owner thereof, within ten (10) days after the capture
thereof, such dog shall be killed by the person capturing the same, or
given to such person as will pay the expenses incurred in impounding such
dog.
All dogs killed under the provisions of this Ordinance shall be
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SECTION 16. Vfuenever it is shown that any dog or other
has bitten any person,it shall be unlawful for the owner or person
haVing the care, control, custody or possession thereof, upon order of .the
City Health Officer, to fail, refuse or neglect to quarantine such dog and
keep it tied up or confined for a period of tllree veeks or to fail, refuse,
or neglect to allow the Cit;y Health Officer .01' his deputy to make an
inspection or examination thereof at any time during said period. If it
shall be estnblished to the satisfaction of the City Health Officer that
any such dog or other animal has rabies, the Cit;y Health Officer shall
cause such dog or other animal to be humanely killed forthwith.
SECTION 17. Whenever any animal shall be bitten by another
animal having rabie~l, it shall be unlawful for the owner or person
. having the care, control, custody or possession of the animal so bitten,
upon being informed thereof, to fail, refuse or neglect to either kill
such animal or quar!mtine it, and keep it confined or tied up for a
period of six months, and the City Health Officer or his deputy shall
have the power, in his discretion, to kill or quarantine the animal so
bitten in case the crIDer or person having the custody or possession thereof
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shall fail to do so irmledio.te1y, or in case the orrneI' or parson ha-dne;
the care, cO):ltrol, custody or possession thereof is not .readi1:\T accessible.
S:8CTIO;: l~. It shall be un1aufu1 for any person to bring
any doC; into the city of Arcadia from any place in rrhiCh rabies shall
be present or shall have been kno\ln to be preoent Ilithin six months,
qithout penussion of the City llealth Officer.
S1i:C'l'IOH 19. That Sections 13. to 18, both inc luoive, of
this Ordinance shall be operative only when rabies exist in or near the
City of Arcadia. :(t shall be the duty of the City Health Officer 10
detenaine when rabies oxist in or near the City of Arcadia and his findinjs
in the matter shall be final and conclusive. Hotice of the findin: of ti:e
Ci ty lles.1 th Officer as to the existence of rabies and as to the termination
of the oxistence thereof in and near said City of Arcadia shall be c;iven
by. one publication in such newspaper published and circulated \11 thin said
City as said City Council may desi~nate.
SECTIOn 20";' The fol10'.lin:; Ordinances are hereb:\T specifically
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Ordinance No. 104, passed and ap proved July 5, 1922 OBD. /to. (,00
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~...t'~... Ordinance No. 178, passed anu approved Auc;ul!t 4, 1926
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Ordinance Ho. 274, passed and approved July 5, 1933
Ordinance Ho. 425, passed and approved February 20, 1940
SECTION 2l~ That any person, firm or corporation ViolatinG
any of the provisions of this Ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a
misdemeanor and upo::l convietion thereof shall be punishable by a fine
not exceeding Three HUndred (\;300.001 Dollars, or by imprisonment in the
City Jail of said C:lty of Arcadia, or ;tn the County Jail of said County
of Los An3eles, Sta-je of California, at the discretion of the Corunitting
Magistrate, for a period not ElltCeed:lngthree (3).months, or by both such
fine and imprisonment.
SECTION 22.. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of
this Ordinance and prior to the expiration of fifteen (15) days from the
passaBe thereof, she.ll cause the same to be published once in the Arcadia
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Tribune and Arcadia I:ews, e. ne\'lspaper of general circulation, published
and ciroulated in t:1e City of Arcil.dia, and thirty days from and after
the final passaGe t:1ereof naiu. Ordinance shall take effect and be in
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I herElby certify that the foreGoing Ordinance \7BS adopted
at a regular meetin:; of the City Council of the.City of Arcadia, held on
the ?nn day of -i[une
three counci:lmen, tel-wit:
Ayes: CouncilnlenAdcock, Jones, Leeper, Uueent and Ormsby.
, 1942, by the affirmative vote of at least
Noes: None
Absent: None.
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SiGned and approved this 2nd day of
June
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