ORDINANCE 95'76'7
ORDINANCE NO. 850
AN ORDINANCE OF SHE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO,
CALIFORNIA, REGULATING THE EMPING OF
DOGS AND THEIR RUNNING AT LARGE IITHI11
THE SAID CITY.
The Board of Trustees of the City of El Segundo
do ordain as follows:
SECTION 19 'Whenever any case or cases, of
rabies, or other disease, dangerous to the health of human
beings, shall be reported as existing in any portion of
the City of E1 Segundo, California, the Health Officer of
said City, or the County Health Officer of Los Angeles
County, California, shall 4take or cause to be made a pre-
liminary investigation as to whether any such disease
does exist and as to the probable area of the City in
which the people or animals therein are thereby endangered.
If, upon such examination, either the said City Health
Officer or the said County Health Officer shall find that
any of the said diseases does exist, a quarantine shall
be declared by him against all dogs designated in the
quarantine order and living within or coming into the
area specified in said order. Said quarantine order
shall continue for such period, not exceeding six (6)
months from date thereof, as may be designated therein.
SEC TION 2. Rhe neve r a quarantine shall be
declared and be in effect in any specified portion of
said City, as is provided in Section 1 hereof, it shall
be unlawful within such area for any person owning, hav-
ing an interest in, harboring or having the care, charge,
control, custody or possession of any dog, to allow or
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to permit such dog to go free, or run at
upon any public road or highway, or any
place, or in or upon any unenclosed lot,
unless such dog is muzzled with a muzzle
as entirely to prevent the said dog from
son or animal.
large in or
ether public
or premises,
so constructed
biting any per-
SECTION 3. The term "unenclosed lot, or
premises," as used in this ordinance, is hereby de-
fined to mean any lot, land or premises not enclosed
in such manner as to prevent any dog confined therein
from escaping therefrom.
SECTION 4. The said City Health Officer
and his deputies, the said County Health Officer and
his deputies, the Sheriff of Los Angeles County and
his deputies, the City Marshal and his deputies, every
constable and his deputies, and every pound keeper of
said City, are hereby authorized and empowered to cap-
ture every dog not muzzled, as required by this ordi-
nance, and found going free or running at large in or
upon any public road, or highway, or any other place,
or in or upon any unenclosed lot or premises within
the area specified in the quarantine order; or in
case such officer or person shall upon reasonable pur-
suit be unable to capture such dog, such officer or
person shall be authorized and empowered to kill such
dog. All dogs so captured by any officer or person
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hereinabove referred to shall be examined by either
the said City Health Officer or his deputy, or the said
County Health Officer or his deputy, and it shall be
the duty of said City Health Officer and of said
County Health Officer, so far as said County Health
Officer will cooperate in said matter, when called upon
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to examine, or have his deputy examine, any such dog,
to ascertain whether or not such dog is afflicted with
rabies. Any dog found by either of said officers
upon examination as above stated to be so afflicted
shall be at once killed by the person having possession
thereof, and any dog found not to be so afflicted after
sufficient time for proper examination thereof, shall
be returned to the owner thereof upon the payment to
said City of E1 Segundo (through the officer or pound
keeper having charge of such dog) of the current license
fee for such dog (if the same be not already paid), to-
gether with a redemption fee of Two Dollars and fifty
cents ($2.50), which shall be paid to said City, and all
of the expenses incurred in impounding such dog, which
shall not exceed fifty cents (.50) per day.
The said City Health Officer and said County
Health Officer are hereby authorized to provide for the
care of the dogs captured and held pursuant to the pro-
visions of this ordinance, and the expenses incurred
thereby shall, in cases where such dogs are not re-
claimed, be paid by the City of E1 Segundo, California,
not exceeding, however, fifty cents (.50) per day for
each such dog.
Every person who kills any dog as herein
provided shall bury or destroy the same.
If any dog is found not to be afflicted With
rabies and is not reclaimed by the owner thereof within
five (5) 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 im-
pounding such dog, as hereinabove provided. All dogs
killed under the provisions of this ordinance shall be
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killed in some humane manner. Rf i.
SECTION 5. All dogs shall be exempted from
quarantine or muzzling which hare been immunized or
vaccinated with anti -rabic virus approved by the State
Board of Health, within one year, and the owners of
such dogs have filed with the Health Officer a certifi-
cate of vaccination or immunization made out by a duly
licensed veterinarian or ph37sician.
The Health Offieer may issue to owners of
immunized dogs, upon receipt of the aforesaid certifi-
cate, a numbered tag bearing a legend giving the year
issued, and giving the information that the dog wearing
same has been immunized. This tag shall be firmly at-
tached to the collar, and said collar shall be worn
by said immunized or vaccinated dog at all times except
when in strict confinement.
SECTION 6. If at any time the Board of
Trustees of said City shall deem the expense of the col-
lection and care of dogs by said County Health Officer
or his deputies as herein provided for to be excessive,
said Board of Trustees may notify said County Health
Officer to that effect, and thereupon said County
Health Officer shall not, nor shall any of his deputies,
incur or create any further charge of any kind against
the said City.
SECTION 7. Any person violating any of the
provisions of this ordinance shall be deemed guilty of
a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be
punished by a fine of not less than Five Dollars 05.00)
nor more than Fifty Dollars (350.00), or by imprison-
meat is the County Jail of Los Angeles County, California,
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for a period of not more than fifty (50) days, or by
both such fine and imprisonment.
SECTION 8. A report shall be rendered to
the Board of Trustees of said City at each regular
meeting of said Board of all dogs impounded and redeemed
or destroyed under the provisions of this ordinance, and
of all expenses incurred with reference to the capturing,
impounding and keeping of the same.
SECTION 9. 111 parts of existing ordinances
in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.
SECTION 10. The pound master or any other
person impounding any dog under the provisions of this
ordinance shall at the time of impounding the same leave
with the City Marshal of said City a description of such
dog, sufficient to identify the same, the name of the
owner, if known, and the date of impounding such dog.
SECTION 11. The City Clerk shall certify
to the passage and adoption of this ordinance and shall
cause the same to be published by one insertion in the
E1 Segundo Herald, a weekly newspaper of general cir-
culation, printed, published and circulated within the
said City and hereby designated for that purpose.
This ordinance shall take effect and be in
full force and virtue thirty (30) days from and after
the final passage and adoption thereof.
Passed, approved and adopted, this r7th
day of August, A. D. 1923.
President of the Board of Trustees
of the City of E1 Segundo, CaliforrOL.
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA, )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES. ) SS.
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CITY OF EL SEGUNDO. )
I, VICTOR D. McCARTHY, City Clerk of the City
of E1 Segundo, California, do hereby certify that the
whole number of members of the Board of Trustees of the
said City is five; that the foregoing ordinance, being
Ordinance Do. 95, was duly passed and adopted by the
said Board of Trustees, approved and signed by the
President of said Board, and attested by the City
Clerk of said City, all at a regular meeting of the
said Board held on the 7th day of August, 19230
and that the same was so passed and adopted by the
following vote:
AYES: TRUSTEES Gerow, Rueger, Smiley and Bryson.
DOES: TRUSTEES None.
AMET: "TRUSTEES Binders ...�_�
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City Clerk of the "City- -orf #1 Segundo,
Cali fo rnia .
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