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ORDINANCE 188Br' or the letter "P" for a female dog stamped thereon as the case may require. SECTION 16. That the City Clark shall also canes to be printed a sufficient number of receipt blanks to meet the requirements of this ordinance which said receipt blanks shall provide for the description of the dog for which the license is paid, the number of the tag xhieh has been issued for such dog and also the name and address of the ovaer of such dog. Said receipts shall also designate the sex of the dog for which such license has been paid. A charge of fifty cents (500) shall be made forthe issuance of a duplicate license tag and said sun shall be included in the basis for computing the percentage of any contractor in the event a contract be awarded upon such basis, unless otherwise specified in such contract. SECTION 17. That until such time as the City Council of said city shall appoint a pound master either by appointment or by contract as contemplated in this ordinance, the Chief of Police of said city shall act as such pound master and shall discharge all of the duties of such pound master as he shall also do at all times hereafter whenever a vacancy shall occur in the offioe of pound master, during the period of such vacancy. SECTION 18. That the pound master (or Chief of Police in the event no other person be acting as pound master by appointment or contract as contemplated under this ordinance) is hereby declared the City Dog License Collector and said pound master shall, upon the payment of such license tax as contemplated in this ordinance, 11- 1276 by any Omer or person having control or charge of any dog within the City of El Segundo, deliver to such parson an appropriate tag for which such license has been paid and shall also deliver to such person a receipt signed by such pound master for such sum of money as shall have been paid as such license tax. SECTION 19. That the o vier or person having the care, control or custody of amy dog upon which shah liomse tax shall have been paid shall securely fasten such tag upon a suitable collar and securely fasten such collar with such tag attached thereto upon such dog. A .�- dog "harness" or other device may be substituted in lieu of the collar if so desired. No dog shall run at large or be permitted to run at large within said city unless there be attached to said dog at the time a current license tag as herein contemplated, provided however, that in case any quarantine is established for any area or areas within said city by the proper health authorities of said city, as a protection or precaution against the incidence or communication of rabies, then, and in that event, no dog shall be permitted to go at large at any time within any such area or areas so quarantined for the period of such quarantine whether bearing a current license tag or not. SECTION 20. That it shall be unlawful for any person owning or having the oars, oustody or control of any dog to permit Gal& dog to go at large at any time in any area or areas within said city in vhich a ggarantins on account of rabies exists during the period of such quarantine. And it shall be unlawful for any person owning or having the care, custody or control of any dog to per - mit such dog to go at large at any time jai thin said city 12- 12.77 - unless such dog shall have attached thereto a current license tag as contemplated in this ordinance, or to permit or allow any female dog to go or run or be at large upon arq of the public highways, streets, avenues, Ways, lanes, alleys, parks, squares, sidewalks or other .ti. public places within said city at azy time during any period in which such female dog is "in heat ", SECTION 21. That whenever any person or persons owning, harboring or having the care or custody of any .r.- dog or dogs shall fail to pay the license tax provided a Ld specified in this ordinance for such dog or dogs, the -- pound master shall cause such dog or dogs to be seised and kept in the public pound for the period aid in the manner and upon the terms, conditions and requirements as are speoified in this ordinance and shall give the notices respecting impounded animals with reference to such dog as specified in this ordinance and in the event same be not sold or redeemed as herein contemplated, then said pound master shall make disposition thereof in the manner as set forth in this ordinance. SECTION 22. That the pound master is hereby autho ri zed to enter upon private premises at any cad all reasonable times while engaged in the disoharge of his duties under this ordinance for the purposes of enforcing the provisions of this ordinance. SECTION 23. That wben any redemption is made under this ordiname, in addition to paying any impounding fee or costs incurred by reason of impounding any animal impounded hereunder, there shall also be paid the amount of any license fee which may then be due or payable on such animal under this or any other ordroams of said city in 1 �- case a current license for such animal be not in existence at the time. Owl- SECTION 24. It is provided firther, however, that notwithstanding any other provision of this o rdi- nanos relating thereto, any dog under the age of six months, if found running at large, may be taken up by the pound master sid impounded and in each case the exemption from license hereinabove provided for such dog shall be forfeited and in such event said dog shall be retained in said pound and shall be subject to re- demption and /or to sale or disposal in the same manner as provided in this ordinance for dogs over the age of six months. SECTION 25. That in addition to any other duties imposed upon said pound master by this ordinance, Braless " otherwise provided in any contract executed hereunder, it shall be the daty of the pound master to remove and dispose of any and all dead animals found in or upon any of the public highways, streets, avenues, ways, lanes, alleys, parks, squares, sidewalks or other public places within eel said. city mzd of any abandoned dead animal found or being upon any private premises; and also to remove and humanely dispose of any live animal which, either by reason of age or infirmity or request of the owner or person having the care, custody or control thereof, is to be destroyed and disposed of within said city; provided, however, that in ..._. case of large animals weighing two hundred pounds or more each (and whether live or dead), the pound master shall not be required to remove more than two such large animals from any single premises within any period of thirty days. 14- :1°79 SECTION 26. That it shall be unlawful for any person, Sian, association, or corporation, to allow or permit any vicious or dangerous dog, or any dog which is apt to bite or injure &my person, or persons, to be or go- at large, within said city. SECTION 27. That the City Council shall have, and said Council doas hereby expressly reserve, the right and power (Not%Lthetanding any other provision, term, or condition in this ordinance contained, to the contrary) to suspend and also to revoke, any dog license issued under the provisions hereof, if at any time it appears to sold Council or said Council at any time finds, that any dog described or referred to in any dog licamse, or for which any dog license is or may be, issued, hereunder, is vicious, dangerous, or apt to bite or injure, any person or persons. Whenever any dog licensed hereunder, is, in • either the written opinion of the Poundmaster or of the City Council of said city, filed with the City Clerk of said city, vicious, dangerous or apt to bite or injure any pe rs on or persons, and same is permitted to go at large, or is kept in such manner as to constitute an apparent menace to any person or persons in said city, such dog may be immediately impounded by the Poundmaster or his duly sathori$ed agents, representatives or assistants, As soon as reasonably possible after any such dog is so impounded, or said written opinion is filed with said Clerk, the owner or owners of such dog, or the person or persons harboring such dog, or the person or persons to whom such license for such dog Was issued, or any person whose name appears therein, shall be notified (.either personally or by registered mail addressed to sash person, or persons, at the address shown in such license) of the fact of such impounding 15- {„ n 1280 or of the filing of such written opinion and that such person or any person interested may appear at a hearing before said Council at a meeting of such Council to be specified in such notice (and which is to be held within not more than ten (10) days from the date of such notice) and show cause if any such po r son has, or such persons have, why s uoh dog should not be destroyed. Such no tifi- cat ion shall also contain or have attached the reto a copy of arty such opinion so filed, if any. Upon such hearing � said Council shall hear all persons Who appear and desire .. to be heard, and shall thereupon decide whether such dog shall be released, destroyed or otherwise disposed of, and its dec 3s ion after such hearing shall he final sad conclusive. In the event said Council, after such hearing, orders such cog destroyed or otherwise removed from said City, or revokes the license for such dog, then and in any of said events said Council shall also, at the same time, order the refunding of the pro -rata portion of the license fee paid for the license of or for such dog, for the remainder of the license period ensuing after the date of such order. Said Council hereby finds and de- termines that the reservation of the right and power barein- above made, is necessary in order to protect the public peace, health and safety of said City, sad of its inhabi- tants, not. only on account of physical deager from vicious and dangerous dogs, bat also from the standpoint of the suppression cad wombetting of the ever present menace of rabies. SECTION 28. In order to accommodate the public of said City, and to expedite the issuance of licenses hereunder, the City Clerk of said City is hereby authorised, 16- a0Jeot to the general authority of the loundmaster, to issue at the o ff ice o f said Ole rk in t he Cit y Hall, any license contemplated, under this ordinance. SECTION 29. Any fowl or folds at large upon any public street, avenue, alley or place, or found trespassing upon any private property within said City, may be taken up by the Poundmaster, or by any other person, and committed to the custody of the Pouadmaster, who shall hold the same subject to reasonable demands .. _ for actual damages done by such fowl or fowls in addition to the fees prescribed herein. Any such fowl may be re- doomed by the person entitled to such fowl, upon payment to the Poundmaster of my damages as above contemplated ( which damages shall be paid to the pe r s an who, or whose property was damaged), plus an impounding fee of 254, and a charge of 54 per day for the keep of, each such fowl* Notice of the impounding of any fowl or fowls shall be given by promptly posting a notice containing a brief description thereof, at the entrance to the pound, and on the bulletin board at the Ei Segundo City Hall. Any fowl not redeemed within three (3) days after the impounding thereof, shall be said or otherwise disposed of by the poundmaster in such manner as to the poundmaster at the time shall seem best. All impounding and keep fees collected under this section, shall be the property of said city, unless otherwise stated in any contract made under the proTisions of this ordinance. The Poundmaster, unless some other person be specified so to do in any such contract, shall keep an accurate and appropriate record of all fo v&a impounded and of the dia po sit ion thereof and of the fees collected in oonnecti on therewith. The Pound- master shall provide at the cost of said City, subsistence 17- for all each fowls during the impoundment thereof, unless otherwise specified in any contract awarded under this ordinance. SECTION 30. In the event a license tee higher than the fee provided in this ordinance has been paid for any dog license for the current year in which this ordinance takes effect, the excess of such payment over the fee herein prescribed for such license, may be refunded upon the filing and al l o mmc s of a proper demand therefor. SECTION 31. That any person, firm or corporation violating any of the provisions of this ordinanoe, shall - be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding X300.00, or by imprisonment in the County Jail of Los Angeles County, California, or in the City Jail of sa€ d City of El Segundo, California, as the committing magistrate may, direct, for a period of not to earn s edt�emonths, or by both a wh fine and imprisDnent in the discretion of the Court, SECTION 32. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause or phrase of this ordinance is for any reason held to be invalid or unconstitutional, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this ordinance. The Council of the City of 3-1 Segundo hereby declares that it would have passed this ordinance,, and each section, subsection, sentence, clause and phrase thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more other sections, subsections, sentences, clauses or phrases be declared invalid or unconstitutional. SECTION 33. That the following ordinances, to -wit: Ordinance No. 7, entitled: 18- Y. ak' -- --- - - --- "AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EL SE GUND O, - REGULATING TEE KEEPING OF DOGS 1ITHIN SAID CITY.". passed and adopted by the Board of Trustees of said City on the 21st day of February, 1917; Also Ordinance No. 76, entitled: "AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO, CALIFORNIA, REGULATING THE SEEPING OF CERTAIN ANIMALS AND FOWLS WITHIN SAID CITY; PROVIDING FM THE TAKING UP OF CERTAIN ANIMAL FOUND RUNNING AT LARGE, AND FOR THE TAKING UP OF CERTAIN ANIMALS AND FOWLS POUND TRESPASSING UPON PRIVATE PROPERTY WITHIN SAID CITY.". passed and adopted by the Board of Trustees of said Oity on the 20th day of April, A. D., 1921; And also Ordinance No. 117, entitled: "AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING ONDINANCE NO. 7 OF SAID CITY ENTITLED: 'AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO, REGULATING THE KEEPING OF DOGS WITHIN SAID CITY'. ADOPTED ON THE 21ST DAY OF FEBRUARY, 1917, BY AMENDING SECTION 1 THEREOF. ", passed and adopted by the Board of Trustees of said City on the 5th day of June, 1925,- be and the same are hereby repealed, but nothing in this ordinance contained, however, shall be construed as in any manner repealing or otherwise affecting Ordinance No. 95, entitled: "AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO, CALIFORNIA, REGULATING TEE KEEPING OF DOGS AND TBEIR RUNNING AT LARGE WITHIN THE SAID CITY.", passed and adopted by the Board of Trustees of said City on the 7th day of August, 1923; Nor Ordinance No. 165, entitled: "AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO CALIFORNIA, CREATING A CERTAIN RES IDERB DISTRICT IN AND FOR SAID CITY AND MAKING CERTAIN REGULATIONS WITH REFERENCE TO THE SEEPING OF LIVE STOCK THEREIN.", passed and adopted by the Board of Trustees (City Council) of said City on the 25th day of January, 1929; Nor Ordinance No. 172, entitled: 19- 12'84 "AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EL S EGUND 0, _ - CALIFORNIA, PRESCRIBING CERTAIN ADDITIONAL DUTIES TO BE PERFORMED BY THE OFFICIALS OF SAID CITY AND BY POLICEMEN, FIREMEN AND OTHER EMPLOYEES THEREOF." passed and adopted by the City Council of said City on the 17th day of September, A .D., 1930. SECTION 34. That 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 El Segundo Herald, a weekly newspaper of general circulation printed, published and circulated within the said City and hereby designated for that purpose. SECTION 35. That this ordinance shall take effect and be in full force and virtue thirty (30) days from and after tba final passage and adoption thereof. Passed, approved and adopted this 191h day of April, A. D., 1933. (SEAL) �, 20- f the City of El Segundo, Cali fo rnia. 1285 -- _ STATE OF CALIFORNIA, ) COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES, ) SS. CITY OF EL SEGUNDO. ) I, VICTOR D. MC CARTSY, City Clerk of the City of El Segundo, Cali fn raia, do hereby certify that the whole number of members of the City Council of the said City is five; that the foregoing ordinance, being Ordinance No. 188, was duly passed and adopted by the said City Council, approved and signed by the Mayor of said city, and attested by the City Clerk of said City, F all at a regular meeting of the said Council held on Ike .�. 19th day of April, A. D., 19.33, and that the same was so passed and adopted by the following vote: AYES: Councilmen: Gerow, 8rimel, Love, Selby and Mayor Binder. NOES: Councilmen: bone ; AbSENT: Councilmen: None City Clerk of the Ci of El Segundo, Cali fD rnia. (SEAL) 1286 Clerk's Certificate STATE OF CALIFORNIA, ) COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES, ) SS. CITY OF EL SEGUNDO. ) I, VICTOR D. McCARTHY" City Clerk of the City of El Segundo, California, do hereby certify that the whole number of members of the City Council of the said City is five; that the foregoing ordiname, being Ordi- nate No. 188, is a fall, true and correct original of Ordinance No. 188 of the said City of E1 Segundo, en it led : "AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO, CALIFORNIA, CREATING THE OFFICE OF POUND MASTER IN AND FOR SAID CITY AND PEESCRIB- ING THE DUTIES OF SUCH POUND MASTER; CREATING A PUBLIC POUND F R SAID CITY AND REGULATING THE MANAGEMENT THEREOF; RE- GULATING THE SEEPING RIUNING AT LARGE AND IMPOUNDING OF DO &S AND OTHER ANIMALS AND CP FOWLS WITHIN SAID CITY; PROVIDING FfR THE LICENSING OF DOGS THEREIN AND REPEAL- ING ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT THEREWITH.". *ich was duly passed and adopted by the said Oity Council, approved and signed by the Mayor of said City, and attested by the City Clerk of said City, all at a regular meeting of the said Council held on the 19th day of April, 1933, and that the a ame was so passed and "opted by the following vote: AYE 8: Counci lme n Gerow, Brimmel, Love, Selby and Mayor Binder DOES: Councilmen None ABSENT :Councilmen None I do hereby further certify that pursuant to the provisions of Section 878 of Act 5233 of the General Laws of the State of Califo mia (Deering 1923 Edition) as amended to date, that the foregoing Ordinance No. 188 was duly and regularly published according to law and the order of the City Council of said City in the El Segundo Herald, a weekly newspaper of general eirdulation, printed, published sad circulated within the said City, and that the sane was so published therein on the following date, to -vit : April 27th, 1935. WITNESS my hand and the seal of said City th i s 28th day o f April , 1933. City Clerk of the City of (SEAL) El Segundo, Cali :ft rnia. r r k r s.es; Affidavit of Publication r STATE OF CALIFORNIA, t COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES, ss. R k. CITY OF EL SEGUNDO, ........ . X. an k..J A'& .... Snow ...................... .......................... being first duly sworn, deposes and �Ai�►: :'lut lei i= Is, and at all of the times hereinafter mentioned was, a citizen of the United States of'Amerlea, over the age of eighteen years, and a resident of the County of Los Angeles, State of California; that he was, at, and during all of the time of the publication of the instrument hereunto attached Etor di r,...' �.. 818M and publisher of EL SEGUNDO HERALD, a newspaper of general circulation, printed, pliil+ rx.� If-shed and circulated WEEKLY in the City of El Segundo, in said County and State;. that said ne** i•; <, paper had been so printed, published and circulated at regular intervals of one week for more than csaq, year immediately preceding the publication of the instrument hereunto annexed; that said newspaper,Ld`µ and was, at all of the times herein mentioned, a newspaper of general circulation within the msaniig - of Section 4460 of the Political Code of the State of California; that as provided by said section, JIM411 , newspaper is published for the dissemination of local or telegraphic news and intelligence of a genev*t character, having a bona fide subscription list of paying subscribers; that said newspaper is root was not at any of the times herein referred to, devoted to the interests, or published for the st oat-., tainment or instruction of a particular class, profession, trade, calling, race or denomination, or f W--; _ any number of such classes, professions, trades, callings, races or demoninations, and that said Ito" paper is not devoted to or published for, nor was it at any of the times herein mentioned devoted•, to, or published for the purpose, whether avowed or otherwise, of entertaining or instructing such classesr professions, trades, callings, races or denominations, or any of such classes, professions, trades ,clEtfl "`' ings, races or denominations. That the notice, order, ordinance, resolution or instrument hereunto attached on paged.... numbers At B, C, D, hereof in all respects, including subject matter, and size and arrangement of type, is a full, true, iiv d' correct copy of the said notice, ordinance, resolution or instrument, in words and figures exactly published; that the same was set and printed in type not smaller than nonpareil and that the body,';; the same was preceded with words printed in black -face type not smaller than nonpareil, dese' and expressing in general terms the purpose and character of the notice, order, ordinance, resolutfori or instrument intended to be published, as will appear from an inspection of the said annexed instru =? Ordinance No . 198 went; that the -------------------- --------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ of which the annexed is a printed copy as hereinabove stated, was published and printed in said new$- f paper at least ...... 0- na....... week......, by ............ ....................consecutive publication...., commencing on the 2 �i h- R_ .3..., and ending on the day of + ' �• •--- day of .--- -•• - - - -.� x��' . .................. A. D. 193. ............................ s ......._ ........ ...................._...__._._, A. D. 193 ......... and as often during said time as said newspaper was regu % 1 - f: larlyissued to -wit: - --- -•-•• ...............................................•-----............------......---......._..._....................... ...............- --------- - - - --- - ......................................•-•---...------.. ......----------- ............. .... ?.Ts .... 19. 33 ..................... .. .... ...... ' ..................................................•----------. ..........--------------- - - - - -- - - - - -• ---.....--•-•-------•-----................................ ......................_...._... Subscribed an sworn to before me this 0---'!..___-- ayof .. .... .................. •--- -- --- -- ---- -- - - -- -- A. D. 193 ✓.. i' City Clerk of the Cit o egundo, ounty of Los Angeles, State of Cali nia. i dm By -------------••--•-••••-------- - ---- --------•------ --- -•- • -• - -- ------------------------------ Deputy City Clerk of Said City.