ORD 74-12 DOG LICENSING AND REPEALING ORDS 116 & 147
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AN ORDINANCE RELATING `TO THE LICENSING OF DOGS, ~'
REPEALING ORDINANCE N0. 116 AND ORDINANCE N0. I47.
BE IT ORDAINED by the City Council of the City of
Winslow, Washington as follows:
SECTION I. Dog Licenses Required. It shall be unlaw-
ful for any person, firm, corporation, organization or de-
partment to own, keep or have control of any dog over the
age of four (4) months within the City of L,iinslow unless
said person, firm, corporation, organization or department
shall have procured a license therefore as hereinafter pro-
vided.
SECTION 2. License Fee. The following fees shall be ~~,
paid for licenses hereunder:
For each dog ..............$3.00
PROVIDED, that licenses and tags shall be provided free
of charge by th;~: City of ~dinslow to guide dogs properly {~--
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trained to assist blind persons when such dogs are actually
being used by blind persons for the purpose of aiding them in
going from place to place; to dogs being currently trained ~~-""
for such purpose in such school or program as has been ap-
proved or accredited by a professional organization or asso-
ciation, either for profit or not for profit; and to pups
and young dogs being raised to be trained on reaching ma-
turity as guide dogs, under the 4-H program known as "Guide
Dogs for the Blind." Licens3_ng agents, in writing such 1i-
censer, shall insert the words "Guide Dog" in the space al-
lotted for, and in place of, a stated fee.
SECTION 3. Date Due. All licenses granted hereunder •'~~~.
shall be due and payable the first day of July of each year.
If the license fee above-provided for 'is. not paid on or be-
fore August 31 of each year, the applicant shall pay a pen- ~r~~~`-~`~~'
alty fee of .x"3.00 for each license in addition to the regular ~`,r
fee as stated above. PROVIDED, said applicant shall not pay ~~,•~'"?
the penalty fee if he has been a resident of the City of
T~inslow for thirty (30) days or less; has owned, kept or
been in control of said dog for thirty (30) days or less;
or said dog, at the time of the application for license is
five (5) months of age or less.
SECTION 4. Issuance of`Licerrse~:~ It shall be the duty
of the City Cleric, his appointee or his authorized agent,
to issue licenses to persons applying therefore upon pay-
ment of the license fee as herein provided, and a tag for
each dog licensed. The licenses shall be dated and numbered
and shall bear the name of Winslow, ~w'ashington, the name,
address and telephone number of the o~ner or keeper of the
dog licensed, the name of the dog, and a description of the
~og, including its age, sex and color. l~e tag shall bear
the name of Winslow, Washington, a serial number correspond-
ing with the number on the license, and the date of expir-
ation. it shall be the duty of every owner or keeper of a
~og to keep a substantial collar on the dog and attached
firm!~ thereto the license tag for the current licensing
year .
SECTION 5. Licenses Non-Transferable. Dog licenses
as provided herein shall not be transferable from one dog to
anoti~er. P~OVIDED, that nothing herein contained shall be
constcued to prevent a license being transferred from one
o~.mer or keeper to another. Pi~OVIDED FURI'H!~R, that in the
event an o~mer or keeper shall move from another political
s~bdivision of Kitsap County into the City of ~{inslow during
the year in which said license is current, said license shall
be honored by the City of l{inslow so long as the license is
current.
SECTION 6. Lost 'rags. Lost license tags may be re-
placed by a substitute identification tag upon payment of
$!.00 to the City Clerk, appointee, or authorized agent.
SECTION 7. ~Jnlawful to Remove License 'rag. it shall
be m~lawful for any person other than the o~er or keeper
to remove a license tag from any dog licensed under the pro-
visions of this ordinance.
SEC'rtO~ 8. Unlicensed Dogs impounded. All dogs not
licensed hereunder, or who do not exhibit the license ident-
ification tag as hereinabove provided, are declared to be a
nuisance and may be seized and impounded.
SECTIO~ 9. Penalty. Any person who refuses, or fails
to cor~!y with, or violates any of the provisions of this
ordinance shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be
punished by a fine not to exceed $500.00 or by i~rison-
ment not to exceed ninety days, or by both such fine and
imprisonment.
SECTION 10. Severability. Should any part of this or-
dinance be adjudged invalid for any reason, such adjudica-
tion shall not affect the validity of this ordinance as a
whole.
SECTIO~ 11. Repealer. Ordinances Nos. 116 and 147
hereby are repealed in their entirety.
SEC'flOm 12. Effective Date. This ordinance shall be-
come effective five (5) days after its publication.
PASSED by the Council of the City of Winslow, and
amproved by its b~yor this /2~ day of ~y, 1974.
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