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HomeMy WebLinkAbout025 - 12/24/1954 - AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 002, 1912, AS AMENDED BY ORDINANCE NO. 002, 1921, ORDINANCE NO. 026, 1926, OR ORDINANCE NO 25 1954 BEING AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE AMENDING INMEMM ORDINANCE NO. 21 19125 AS AMENDED BY ORDINANCE NO. 2, 1921, ORDINANCE NO 26, 1926, ORDINANCE NO- 13, 1934, and ORDINANCE NO 7, 1937, RELATING TO THE POSSESSION OF DOGS WITHIN THE CORPORATE LIMITS OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS, THE LICENSE FEE REQUIRED THEREFOR, AND FIXING A PENALTY-FOR FAILURE TO OBTAIN A LICENSE FOR DOGS BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FLIRT COLLINS Section 1. That the final paragraph of Section 1 of Ordinance No. 2, 1912, as amended by Ordinance No. 2, 1921, Ordinance No. 26, 1926, Ordinance No 13, 1934, and Ordinance No, 7, 1937, be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows "Section 1 If the license fee for any dog as herein ,,required to be paid on January 1 of each year is not paid by the 1st day of February of each year, and if the license fee for any dog as herein required to be paid after July 1st of each year is not paid within thirty days after the same is due, then the owner or possessor or harborer of any dog subject to a license fee, shall pay, in addition to the fee herein provided, a penalty of $1 00 for failure to obtain said license, which shall be collected by the City Clerk at the time the delinquent license fee is paid Provided, however, the penalty payment herein fixed shall be in addi— tion to the penalty herein provided for any violation of this Ordinance " Section 2 That Section 6 and Section 8 of Ordinance No 2, 1912, be and the same are hereby amended to read as follows "Section 6 All dog licenses shall expire upon the 31st day of December of each year, and it is hereby made the duty of the Chief of Police to make complaint to the Municipal Court against all persons who fail to comply with or who violate any of the provisions of this Ordinance, that they be tried and fined as herein provided, and it shall be the dirty of the Chief of Police to cause any unlicensed dog or dogs found running at large in violation of this ordinance to be caught and impounded in a pound to be designated by the City Council for such purpose, where such dog or dogs shall be kept for a period of three full days after being so impounded unless sooner redeemed It shall be the duty of the Chief of Police to cause to be exterminated in a humane manner at the expense of the City any female dog running at large while in heat or vicious dog running at large, or any rabid dog or dog exposed to a rabia dog, whether the same be licensed or not " "Section 8 If, after such notice as above provided, no person shall appear to claim said dog or dogs, and after the expiration of three days from the time of first impounding, it shall be the duty of the Chief of Police to cause said dog or dogs to be exterminated in a humane manner." Section 3 That Wherever the words "City Marshall" appear in said Ordinance No 2, 1912, as amended, that there be substituted therefor the words "Chief of Police " Section 4^ That Section 10 of Ordinance No. 2, 1912, be amended by deleting-the words "it shall be the duty of the City Marshall to kill and cause to be buried at the expense of the City any female dog found running at large while in heat, or vmcious dog running at large, or any rabid dog or one exposed to a rabid dog whether the same be licensed or not", substituting therefor the words "it shall be the duty of the Chief of Police to cause to be exterminated in a humane manner at the expense of the City any female dog found running at large while in heat, or vicious dog running at large, or any rabid dog or one exposed to a rabid dog, whether the same be licensed or not " Section 5 In the opinion of the City Council an emergency exists for the preservation of the public health, peace and safety, and this ordinance shall take effect upon its passage and publication under and by virtue of the authority contained in Sections 6 and 7 of Article IV of the City Charter Introduced, read at length and adopted by the unanimous vote of all members of the City Council at a regular meeting held this 24th day of December, A D 1954 Commissioner of Safety an -0 ficio Nayor ATTEST Ci y,C er -2- STATE OF COLORADO) ) ss COUNTY OF L RImER) I, MILES F HOUSE, City Clerk of the City of Fort Collins, do hereby certify and declare that the aforesaid Ordinance, consisting of five sections, was duly proposed and read at length at a regular meeting of the City Council held on the 24th day of December, A. D 1954, and was duly adopted and ordered published in the Fort Collins Coloradoan, a daily newspaper and official news- paper of the City of Fort Collins, by the unanimous vote of all members of the City Council, as an Emergency Ordinance, in accordance with the provisions of Section 6 and 7 of Article IV of the City Charter, and thereafter and on, to-wit the 28th day of December , A D. 1954, said Ordinance No 25 was duly published in the Fort Collins Coloradoan, a daily newspaper published in the City of Fort Collins, Colorado IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said City, this 28th day of December , A. D. 195 l—. city Cler -3-