ORDINANCE 510T-5)78
ORDINANCE NO. 510
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO,
CALIFORNIA, PROVIDING FOR THE VACCINATION
WITH RABIES VACCINE OF ALL DOGS KEPT OR
HARBORED OR BROUGHT WITHIN THE CITY OF
EL SEGUNDO, CALIFORNIA.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO, CALIFORNIA,
DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. That every person keeping, harboring, or
having a dog over the age of four (4) months in the City of E1
Segundo, California, shall cause such dog to be vaccinated with
rabies vaccine within a period of six (6) weeks from the date of
harboring, keeping or having said dog within said City, or from
the date the said dog attains the age of four (4) months; pro-
vided, however, that the aforesaid provision shall not apply so
as to require the vaccination of any dog which has been vacci-
nated with a chick embryo vaccine by a person licensed by the
State of California, or of any other state or nation, to prac-
tice veterinary medicine where such vaccination has been com-
pleted within the period of time as hereinafter prescribed in
this Section 1. If chick embryo vaccine was used in such vac-
cination, it must have been completed within two (2) years prior
to the date such dog was kept, harbored or brought into the City
of E1 Segundo. If tissue phenolized vaccine was used, such vac-
cination must have been completed within one (1) year prior to
the date such dog was kept, harbored or brought into the City of
E1 Segundo.
SECTION 2. (a) Every person keeping, harboring or
having a dog in the City of E1 Segundo, California, which has
been vaccinated with chick embryo vaccine shall cause such dog
to be revaccinated within a period of not more than two years
after such prior vaccination.
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(b) Every person keeping, harboring or having a dog in
said City of E1 Segundo which has been vaccinated with tissue
phenolized vaccine shall cause such dog to be revaccinated with
rabies vaccine within a period of not more than one year after
such prior vaccination.
SECTION 3. Every person practicing veterinary medicine
in the City of E1 Segundo who vaccinates a dog with rabies vaccine
shall issue to the person keeping, harboring or having such a dog
a certificate which is signed by said veterinarian and which
states thereon the name and description of said dog, the date of
such vaccination and type of vaccine used.
SECTION 4. (a) Every person applying for a dog license
whether to the Pound Master under contract to the City of E1 Se-
gundo, or to the City of E1 Segundo shall exhibit or within ten
(10) days thereafter shall exhibit a certificate issued by a per-
son licensed by the State of California, or any other state or
nation, to practice veterinary medicine which certificate shall
show that the dog for which the license shall be issued either
(1) has been vaccinated in accordance with the provisions of Sec-
tions 1 and 2 of this ordinance, or (2) should not be vaccinated
with rabies vaccine by reason of age, infirmity or other disabili-
ty, which disability is shown on the face of such certificate and
to the satisfaction of the person issuing the license to be in
effect at the time.
(b) At the time of issuance or within ten (10) days there-
after a dog license of the City of E1 Segundo shall be stamped
with the date of vaccination and the type of vaccine used as
shown on said certificate, or if the license is issued as the re-
sult of the aforesaid certificate of disability, the words "No
Vaccination Required" shall be stamped thereon. Such license so
stamped shall be worn at all times by the dog for which said li-
cense is issued.
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SECTION 5. (a) The Pound Master, under contract to the
City of E1 Segundo, shall capture and impound any dog found with-
in the City limits of the City of E1 Segundo which is not wearing
a valid license and stamped as provided in Section 4(b) of this
ordinance.
(b) Any officer or employee of said Pound Master, any po-
lice officer of the City of E1 Segundo or of any city in Los An-
geles, shall have the right to enter upon any private or public
property in the City of El Segundo in order to examine or capture
any dog thereon or therein; provided, however, that no such of-
ficer or employee shall have the right to enter a house which is
in use as a residence without first having secured a search war-
rant therefor.
(c) No dog so impounded shall be released to any person
except where there had been a performance of the following con-
ditions:
(1) There has been presented to the Pound Master
a current license conforming to this ordinance for such
dog;
(2) Where the person keeping, harboring or having
such dog is a resident of the City of E1 Segundo, there
has been paid to the Pound Master the license fee for a
City of E1 Segundo dog license as provided by law;
(3) There has been paid to the Pound Master the im-
pounding, collection and other fees as provided by law;
(4) There has been paid to the Pound Master a rea-
sonable fee as determined by the Pound Master for the vac-
cination of such dog; provided, however, that such fee
shall not exceed $5.00; or there has been shown to the
satisfaction of the Pound Master that such dog has been
vaccinated with rabies vaccine within the time periods
and according to the other requirements as prescribed in
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Sections 1 and 2 of this ordinance; or that a certificate
of disability has been issued for such dog as provided in
Section 4(a) of this ordinance; and
(5) The Pound Master has determined that such dog
does not have and is not reasonably suspected of having
rabies.
(d) Within seventy -two (72) hours after the receipt of the
aforesaid vaccination fee, or as soon thereafter as possible, and
except as provided in paragraph (e) of this Section 5, the Pound
Master shall cause the dog for whom the fee has been paid to be
vaccinated with chick embryo vaccine by a person licensed by the
State of California to practice veterinary medicine or secure
from such veterinarian a certificate of disability for such dog.
After the dog has been vaccinated or a certificate of disability
issued and if all the conditions of paragraph (c) of this Section
5 have been satisfied, the Pound Master shall release such dog
to the person keeping, harboring or having such dog or to the per-
son making application for the release of such dog.
(e) If the Pound Master suspects that any dog so impounded
has rabies he shall hold such dog for inspection by a health of-
ficer of Los Angeles County. In the event that such health of-
ficer shall determine that such dog is afflicted with rabies,
it shall be disposed of or confined for such time as the health
officer shall direct. In the event that such health officer sus-
pects that such dog may develop rabies, it shall be confined for
such time as the health officer shall direct. Whenever such
health officer shall determine that such dog does not have rabies,
it shall be released in accordance with the provisions of para-
graph (c) of this Section 5.
SECTION 6. That any person violating any of the pro-
visions of this ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor
and upon conviction thereof shall be punishable by a fine of not
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more than five hundred dollars 0500.00) or by imprisonment in
the City Jail of the City of E1 Segundo, California, or in the
County Jail of the County of Los Angeles, California, as the
committing magistrate may direct for a period of not more than
six (6) months, or by both such fine and imprisonment in the
discretion of the court.
SECTION 7. That this ordinance shall become effective
at midnight on the thirtieth day from and after the date of the
final passage and adoption thereof.
SECTION 8. That the City Clerk shall certify to the
passage and adoption of this ordinance; shall cause the same to
be entered in the book of original original ordinances of said
city; shall make a minute of the passage and adoption thereof in
the records of the meeting at which the same is passed and adopt-
ed; and shall, within fifteen days after the passage and adoption
thereof, cause the same to be published once in the E1 Segundo
Herald, a weekly newspaper of general circulation, published and
circulated within said City of E1 Segundo and which is hereby
designated for that purpose.
Passed, approved and adopted this 30th day of
September , 1957.
ATT ST:
City Clerk
(SEAL)
Mayor of the i.ty Segundo,
California
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES SS.
CITY OF EL SEGUNDO
I, ___ Euni-ce -- U. - - - Creason------ -- - - - - -- ___, City Clerk of the City of El Segundo,
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California, do hereby certify that the whole number of members of the City Council
of the said City is five; that the foregoing____ ar_ divanca____________ __________________ ___________I
being_. Ordinance No. Sig__________________ ___ _ _ __
, ------------- - - - --- ,was 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, all at a regular meeting of the said Council held on the
------- 3Qtki ---- day of ------- September -------------------------- 19___S7__, and that the same was
so passed and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Councilmen _____. Baker_,__Frede_ri.4k,__ Aeeqh '____ ________
---------------- - - - - -- May_ or__Benfield; ----------------------------------------- - - -• --
NOES: Councilmen ----- Ngne.: --
ABSENT:_ Counclman__Gordon.
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WITNESS my hand and the official seal of said City this ----- 1st ---------------- day of
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City Clerk of the City of
El Segundo, California
(SEAL)
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA, )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES, ) SS.
CITY OF EL SEGUNDO. )
I Eunice U. Creason _____ -_- 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 ordinance, being Ordinance No ----- S1-0 ...... I
is a full, true and correct original of Ordinance No ------- 510 --------- of the said City of El
Segundo, California, entitled:
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO,
CALIFORNIA, PROVIDING FOR THE VACCINATION
WITH RABIES VACCINE OF ALL DOGS KEPT
OR HARBORED OR BROUGHT WITHIN THE CITY OF
EL SEGUNDO, CALIFORNI -A-2,
which 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, all at a regular
meeting of the said Council held on the ------- 3Qth..day of -------- 5ePt_embe_r__.., 19_._57,
and that the same was so passed and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Councilmen ----- $aker,___Frederick_,__Meschuk __and____
May Benfieldi
NOES: Councilmen - None-;---------------------------------------------------------------------- - - - - --
ABSENT: Councilman Gordon.
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I do hereby further certify that pursuant to the provisions of Section 36933 of the
Government Code of the State of California, that the foregoing Ordinance No.__510____
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 circulation,
printed, published and circulated within the said City and that the same was so pub-
lished therein on the following date, to wit: ._. October _ 3,_ __1957.
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-'�_ - -.:.z .... City Clerk of the City of El Segundo, California.
By--------------------------------------------------------------
(SEAL) Deputy.
Affidavit of Publication
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES) ss
CITY OF EL SEGUNDO )
F1C•r2ClCL- .Farrll ....I— being first duly sworn, deposes poses and says: That
he is, and at all of the times hereinafter mentioned was, a citizen of the United States of America,
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 the ............
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Editor of EL SEGUNDO HERALD, a newspaper of general circulation, published and circulated weekly in
the City of El Segundo, in said County and State; that said newspaper has been so published and
circulated at regular intervals of one week for more than one year immediately preceding the
Publication of the instrument hereunto annexed; that said newspaper is, and was, at all of the times
herein mentioned, a newspaper of general circulation within the meaning of Section 4460 of the Political
Code of the State of California; that as provided by said section, said newspaper is published for the
dissemination of local or telegraphic news and intelligence of a general character, having a bona fide
subscription list of paying subscribers; that said newspaper is not and was not at any of the times ,herein
referred to, devoted to the interests, or published for the entertainment or instruction of a particular
class, profession, trade, calling, race or denomination, or for any number of such classes, pr ofessions, trades,
callings, races or denominations, and that said newspaper 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 classes, professions, trades, callings, races or denomin-
ations, or any of such classes, professions, trades, callings, races or denominations.
That the ,notice, order, ordinance, resolution or instrument hereunto attached on page ............ numbered
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hereof in all respects, including subject matter, and size and arrangement of type, is a full true and
correct copy of the said notice, ordinance, resolution or instrument, in words and figures exactly as
published; that the same was set and printed in type not smaller than nonpareil and that the (body of
the same was preceded with words printed in black -face type not smaller than nonpareil, describing
and expressing in general terms the purpose and character of the notice, order, ordinance, resolution
or instrument intended to be published, as will appear from an inspection of the said annexed instru-
ment; that the ..qrd nane2....No,____.51.0
of which the annexed is a printed copy as hereinabove stated, was published and printed in said news -
paper at least... .. 1., week by ---------------------------------- consecutive publication Commencing on the
•--- - - - - - - ; 1T —* day of .......... C t rJ. b'e' ' ..... A. D.19 57•.., and ending on the ------ - - - - -- ........... 3rd i of
...._ ...... .................QC Der - - - -- A. D. 19...7.... and as often during said time as said newspaper was regu-
larly issued, to -wit: .... ........................................................
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Subscribed and sworn to before me this ..... ............
day of ............. ... ... ......._- A. D.
City clerk of the City of El Segundo, County
Of Los Angeles, State of California.
By
Deputy City Clerk of said City.
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