ORDINANCE 971ORDINANCE NO. 971
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO, CALI-
FORNIA, AMENDING SECTIONS 8.08.105, 8.12.040
AND 8.12.060 OF, AND ADDING SECTION 8.08.102
TO, THE EL SEGUNDO MUNICIPAL CODE, WHICH
SECTIONS RELATE TO DOG REGULATIONS.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO, CALIFORNIA
DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Sections 8.08.105, 8.12.040, and 8.12.060 of
Chapter,8.08 of the "El Segundo Municipal Code" are amended to read
as follows:
8.08.105 FEES AND PROCEDURE FOR IMPOUNDING AND
KEEPING DOGS. Upon impounding any dog found running at
large, the poundmaster shall immediately prepare a notice
containing a brief description of the dog and within
twenty -four hours thereafter shall deliver to the Chief
of Police a copy of such notice.
(1) At any time within five days from the
date of the first posting of the notice, the
owner or persons entitled to the possession of
the dog may reclaim the dog upon payment to the
poundmaster of an impounding fee of seven
dollars and fifty cents;
(2) For the second impoundment of a dog,
owned by the same person, the pound fee shall
be fifteen dollars;
(3) For the third impoundment of a dog,
owned by the same person, the pound fee shall
be twenty -five dollars;
(4) In addition to the foregoing impound-
ing fee, the sum of two dollars per day for
each day or portion thereof for which the dog
has been impounded.
8.12.040 LICENSE - ANNUAL FEES. The annual license
fee for keeping and maintaining a dog in the city is
fixed in the sum of ten dollars a year. The annual
license fee for a spayed or neutered dog shall be four
dollars a year if a certificate is presented from a
licensed veterinarian verifying that the dog has been
spayed or neutered.
8.12.060 LICENSE - DATE PAYABLE - PENALTY. Any
license fee required to be paid by this chapter shall be
payable annually in advance on the first day of April of
each year and the license shall expire at midnight on the
thirty -first day of March of the succeeding year. Any
license fee payable under the provisions of this chapter
remaining unpaid for a period of thirty days after the
same become payable hereunder shall be subject to a
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penalty of fifty percent of the license fee, which
penalty shall be collected by the license collector at
the time of the collection of the license fee, and shall
be in addition to the principal sum thereof. In deter-
mining whether or not a penalty has accrued under the
provisions of this chapter, the license collector may
require an affidavit from any person claiming exemption
from the payment of any penalty hereunder, which affi-
davit shall set forth the facts upon which the claim for
the exemption is based.
SECTION 2. Section 8.08.102 is added to Chapter 8.08 of
the "E1 Segundo Municipal Code" to read as follows:
8.08.102 VACCINATION FEE - REDEMPTION STRAY DOGS -
CATS. The poundmaster shall collect a three dollar fee
from persons redeeming impounded dogs and cats for
administering distemper vaccinations to stray dogs and
for vaccinating stray cats for feline diseases.
SECTION 3. This ordinance shall become effective at mid-
night on the thirtieth day from and after the date of the final
passage and adoption thereof.
SECTION 4. 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 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 adopted; and shall within fifteen days
after the passage and adoption thereof, cause the same to be pub-
lished once in the E1 Segundo Herald, a weekly newspaper of general
circulation, published and circulated within said City of El
Segundo and which is hereby designated for that purpose.
PASSED, APPROVED and ADOPTED this 19th day of
une . 1979.
ATTEST:
City Clerk
(SEAL)
Mayor of the City of E1 Segundo,
California
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) SS
CITY OF EL SEGUNDO )
VALERIE A. BURROWES , , , 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 ordinance, being Ordinance No. . 971 . .
is a full, true and correct original of Ordinance No. 971........ of the said City of
El Segundo, California, entitled:
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO,
CALIFORNIA, AMENDING SECTIONS 8.08.105, 8.12.040
8.12.040 AND 8.12,060 OF, AND ADDING SECTION
8.08.102 TO, THE EL SEGUNDO MUNICIPAL CODE,
WHICH SECTIONS RELATE TO DOG REGULATIONS
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 . 19th ... day of ...dune
1979........ , and that the same was so passed and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Councilmen .. Bue, Na9eI,Van Vranken
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. ,and Mayor.6almer
NOES: Councilmen ... Berson .................... 0..............
ABSENT: Cou.Nilmen, , , .. None .... . ....... .
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. .. 9Z1... 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 said City and that the
same was so published therein on the following date, to wit: .................... .
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City Clerk of the City of E1 Segundo, California
(SEAL)
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Deputy