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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1973-35 - Addition of Chapter 5.1 and 5.2 to the Municipal CodeBILL NO. 73=35 ORDINANCE NO . ~ .3 AN ORDINANCE REPEALING CHAPTER 5.2 OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF RIVERSIDE, MISSOURI DEALINGT~iTH ANIMALS AND FOWLS AND ENACTING A NEW CHAPTER 5.1 and 5'.2 THE SAME BEING AN ORDINANCE REGULATING THE CONTROL AND KEEPING OF ANIMALS AND PROVIDING FOR THE LICENSING OF DOGS AND PROVIDING A CRIMINAL PENALTY FOR VIOLATION. OF THESE ORDINANCES AND RENUMBERING CHAPTER 5.1. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN OF RIVERSIDE, MISSOURI THAT: Chapter 5.2 of the: code of the City of Riverside, Missouri, is hereby repealed. It is hereby enacted Chapter 5.1 Animal Control Ordinance which shall read as follows: 5.1 ANIMAL CONTROL ORDINANCE SECTION 1. following terms Definitions. As used in this ordinance, the mean: Owner: Any person, partnership or cforporation owning, keeping or harborning any animal. Animal: Any and all types of animals both domesticated and wild, male and female, single-and plural. Fowl: Any and all fowl, domesticated and wild, male and female, single and plural. Dog: A dog of either sex. Animal Control Officer: An officer of the City appointed by the board of aldermen to assist in the enforcement of this ordinance. Restraint: An animal is under restraint if it is confined on the property. of .its owner or is under the immediate and effective control of a responsible person. SECTION 2: Animal Control Officer. An animal control officer shall be appointed by the. board of aldermen to carry out the system and the enforcement of this ordinance under such duties and such salary as the board of aldermen shall direct. The animal control officer shall keep a record in which he shall record all his official transactions involving funds. Such record shall be open to the inspection of the public. The animal control officer shall be assisted in his duties by the Police Department. SECTION 3: Impounded Animals-Release-Killing-Sale. When- ever any animal is taken up and impounded under the authority of this ordinance, it .shall be the-duty of the animal control officer to release said animal upon satisfactoryiroof that the party claiming the animal is entitled to possession .thereof and payment to the city clerk of the fee preseribed in Section 4 for the care of the animal during impoundment. Whenever any animal shall remain in the animal shelter for a period longer than seven (7) days or fourteen (14) days for a licensed dog, from impound- ment of such animal (except those animals impounded under the authority of Section 12 / ~ n which case said period shall begin upon the expiration of the observation period therein provided said animal shall be disposed of in some humane manner by the animal control officer. The animal control officer may, in lieu of having an unclaimed animal destroyed release said animal to a new owner who shows evidence of intention to provide the animal with humane care; provided that no unspayed female dog shall be released for adoption unless a licensed veterinarian certifies in writing that he has been paid in full for the spaying of the dog and will perform the operation within thirty days or before the dog's first fertile period; and provided further that all fees and charges due on said animal are paid. SECTION 4. Impounded Animals-Fees. The fee for the care of any animal during the period of impoundment shall be at the rate of $2.00 per day or a portion of the day that said animal is impounded; providing, however, that such fee shall be increased by the actual amount of any unusual expenses incurred either in the impoundment or the care of said animal, and provided further that a five dollar ($5.00) fee shall be charged when any animal is picked up by the animal control officer, the police department or other city official. SECTION 5. Notification to Owner. The animal control officer shall promptly, after the impounding of any animal, notify the owner of such animal of its capture and impoundment, if the owner can be determined or located by reasonable investigation; provided however, that no liability shall be attached to the City or to the animal control officer or the police department for failure to give such notice. SECTION 6. Animals and Fowl at Lar hogs, horses, mules, sheep, goats, geese nor animal nor fowl of any kind shall be within the City or be herded or pastured of the City, and no such animal shall be unfenced land within the City. SECTION 7. Seizure and impoundment-re ort of the same. Any animal or fowl found to e running at large in vio anon o this ordinance shall be taken and impounded in the city animal shelter designated by the board of aldermen. Any person taking up or causing to be taken up, any animal found running at large within the city limits shall immediately report the same to the animal control officer or the police department. SECTION 8. Care of Animals. The owner of an animal shall provide it with humane shelter from heat, cold, rain, wind and snow, and shall give it food and water adequate to keep the animal in good health and comfort. Dog houses and kennels must be soundly constructed, dry, and provided in cold weather with clean bedding. All animals must be given opportunity for vigorous daily exercise, must be provided by the owners with veterinary care when needed to prevent suffering. No owner shall permit a dog to habitually bark, howl or in other ways be a public nuisance. ~. All dog, cats, cattle, ducks, chickens, turkeys, permitted to run at large upon any street or park kept or herded upon any SECTION 9. Confinement of Female Dogs in Heat. The owner shall confine any female dog in heat within a building, in such manner that the dog will not be accessible to other dogs except for planned breeding and will not attract male dogs. SECTION 10. Poisoning, Kill Animals or Fowl. No person shall will o~owl, or shall willfully the same may be taken up by ully adminster any poison to any anim expose any poisonous substances where any such animal or fowl; nor shall any person kill or attempt to kill, wound or attempt to wound, injure or attempt to injure, capture or attempt to capture any animal or fowl. Provided, however, that this section shall not apply to the animal control officer, or his assistants or employees, or any police officer, or other city official attempting lawful discharge of official duties. SECTION 11. Cruelty to Animals. No person shall overdrive, overload, torture, torment or cruelly neglect to provide with with necessary sustenance or shelter or cruelly beat or needlessly mutilitate, or kill any animal or fowl or cause or procure any of the aforesaid to be done. SECTION 12. Confinement of Animals,to Check for Rabid Condition. The owner or keeper of any dog or other domestic animal that has bitten any person shall confine the dog or domestic animal for a period of at least ten (10) days. SECTION 13. Rabies. Every rabid animal or fowl exposed to rabies shall be immediately confined by the owner, who shall promptly notify the animal patrol officer or the police department. The owner, shall upon order of the animal control officer or police department, surrender any animal for quarantine in the City animal shelter or a licensed veterinary hospital, and the owner shall be responsible for all costs. The animal may be quarantined a maximum of two weeks, but shall be released earlier if certified by a licensed veterinarian to be free of rabies. No person shall kill a rabid animal exposed to rabies nor move such an animal from the city limits, without permission from the animal control officer or the police department, except when it is necessary to kill such animal to prevent it from escaping or from biting any other animal or person. The body of any animal dead of rabies or having been exposed to rabies prior to death shall be surrendered by the owner upon demand of the animal control officer or the police department. SECTION 14. Abandonment. No person, individual or corporation shall abandon any anima wit in the city limits of Riverside. SECTION 15. Investigation and interference with officers . The animal control o icer and any police officer is authorized to enter any premises where a dog is kept, or harbored, to inspect conditions under which a dog is kept, and to require the owner to exhibit a license for the dog. No person shall hinder, molest or interfere with the animal control officer or police officer in the performance of his duties. SECTION 16. Enforcement. The provisions of this ordinance sha~Il be enforced by the animal control officer and the department of police of the City of Riverside. SECTION 17. Penalties. Any person violating any section of this ordinance shall be deemed guilty of misdemeanor and shall by punished by a fine of not less than one dollar ($1.00) and not more than one hundred dollars ($100.00). If such a violation be continuing, each days violation shall be a separate offense. THERE IS HEREBY ENACTED CHAPTER 5.2 - A DOG LICENSE ORDINANCE WHICH SHALL READ AS FOLLOWS: 55_2 LICENSING OF DOGS. SECTION 1. L~icen~sin No person shall own, keep or harbor any dog within the city~imits unless such dog is licensed as herein provided. (a) The written application for a license shall be made to the city collector or assistanct city clerk. The license fee shall be paid to the city collector at the time of making application. The city collector shall issue a receipt and a numbered metallic or plastic tag for each dog license, and shall maintain for one year arecords of such receipts and tags, Such records shall be open to public inspection at all business hours. (b) The license fee shall be: two dollars ($2.00) for a male dog or a spayed female dog; three dollars ($3.00) for unspayed female dog. (c) All dog licenses shall be issued for one year beginning with the first day of January. The owner may apply for a license during January without penalty for the delay, but when an application is made after January 31, the appropriate license fee shall be increased by fifty per cent (50~). (d) If the ownership of a dog is transferred, the new owner may have the current license transferred to his name upon payment of a fee of one dollar ($1.00). (e) The owner shall keep on the dog at all times when the dog is not inside a private building, a collar or harness, and the tag issued by the City shall be affixed to the collar or harness in such manner that the tag can be easily seen. (f) No owner shall use for any dog a tag issued for a different dog. (g) If a license is destroyed or lost, a duplicate or replacement may be obtained from the city collector for a fee of one dollar ($1.00). SECTION 2. Nothwithstanding any of the foregoing provisions no license shall be issued without proof of vaccination of the dog. SECTION 3. Exem tions. Hospitals, clinics and other facilities operate by icensed veterinarians for the care and treatment of animals are exempt from all provisions of this ordinance relating to licensing. The licensing provisions of the ordinance shall not apply to non-residents of the City and residents of the City who keep a dog within the City for less than thirty days (30). SECTION 4. Penalty. Any person violating any section of this ordinance shall be deemed guilty of misdemeanor and shall be punished by a fine of not less than one dollar ($1.00) and not more than one hundred dollars ($100.00). If such a violation be continuing, each day's violation shall be a separate offense. 'Z~ Q' PASSED THIS ~9 ~ DAy'OF ~ _, 1973. ATTEST: ~Q~~ City C er hh ~j / APPROVED THIS ~ ` ~ DAY OF V ~ 1973. ~~~~