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(First Published in the Ark Valley News on the /7 day of O~ ,2002.)
THE CITY OF BEL AIRE, KANSAS
ORDINANCE NO. .3 W 0
AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR THE LICENSING
AND REGISTRATION OF DOGS AND CATS WITHIN
THE CORPORATE LIMITS OF THE CITY OF BEL
AIRE, KANSAS.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE GOVERNING BODY OF THE CITY OF BEL AIRE,
KANSAS:
Section 1. Registration and Vaccination Required
(a) Every owner or harborer of any dog or cat over five months of age
shall annually register with the City Clerk or the City Clerk's designee, his or her
name and address with the name, sex and description of each dog or cat owned
and kept within the City of Bel Aire, Kansas. It shall be unlawful for the owner or
harborer of any newly acquired dog or cat or any dog or cat brought into the City
to fail to register such animal within 30 days from acquisition or bringing the dog
or cat into the City. It shall be unlawful for the owner or harborer of any previously
registered dog or cat to fail to maintain current registration of such dog or cat.
(b) Upon registration, the owner or harborer shall present a current,
completed certificate of immunization against rabies. No registration shall follow
without evidence of this document, and it shall be unlawful for the owner or
harborer of any dog or cat over six months of age to fail to maintain effective
rabies immunization of such dog or cat.
(c) The owner or harborer of any dog or cat shall, at the time of
registering such dog or cat, present to the City Clerk or the City Clerk's designee,
a certificate from an accredited veterinarian showing that a male dog or cat has
been neutered or a female dog or cat has been spayed, if the dog or cat has
been neutered or spayed.
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(d) Upon registration, the City Clerk or the City Clerk's designee shall
collect an annual registration fee for each dog or cat, pursuant to a fee schedule
enacted by Resolution of the Governing Body of the City of Bel Aire, Kansas.
(e) The registration year shall be from January 1 st through December
31 st of each year. The fee shall be payable before March 1 st of each year
without penalty. Every owner or harborer of a dog or cat who shall fail to register
the same prior to the 1 st day of March of each year shall pay, in addition to the
registration fee herein provided, a late registration fee of $10.
Section 2. License Taq and Registration Number
(a) It shall be the duty of the City Clerk or the City Clerk's designee,
upon a showing of current rabies immunization and receipt of the registration fee
as herein required, to keep a record of the date of the registration of each dog,
the name of the owner or harborer, the number of the registration and the
amount paid. The City Clerk or the City Clerk's designee shall also deliver to the
owner or harborer of the dog, a certificate and a license tag containing the
registration number and registration year.
(b) Every owner or harborer of any dog over five months of age shall
attach the current license tag issued for the dog containing the registration
number and registration year to a collar worn by the dog.
(c) When any license tag has become lost during a registration period,
a duplicate license tag for the remainder of the registration period shall be issued
by the City Clerk or the City Clerk's designee, upon presentation of the
registration certificate and payment of a $3 fee.
(d) It shall be unlawful for any person to remove the City license tag
from any dog belonging to another, or remove the strap or collar on which the
same is fastened.
(e) It shall be unlawful for any person to place on any dog a license tag
issued for any other dog or to make or use any false, forged or counterfeited
license tag or imitation thereof.
(f) It shall be the duty of the City Clerk or the City Clerk's designee,
upon a showing of current rabies immunization and receipt of the registration fee
as herein required, to keep a record of the date of the registration of each cat, the
name of the owner or harborer, the number of the registration and the amount
paid. The City Clerk or the City Clerk's designee shall also deliver to the owner
or harborer of the cat, a certificate containing the registration number and
registration year.
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Section 3. Evidence of Vaccination
It shall be unlawful for the owner or harborer of any dog or cat kept within
the City to fail to display a current certificate of immunization against rabies
issued by an accredited veterinarian evidencing the vaccination of such dog or
cat within two years, when requested by the animal control officer or any law
enforcement officer.
Section 4. Temporarv Doqs and Cats
The provisions of this article with respect to registration shall not apply to
any dog or cat owned by any person visiting or temporarily remaining within the
City for less than 30 days. However, any such dogs shall be kept under restraint
by the owner thereof at all times.
Section 5. Penaltv
Any person violating any provision of this ordinance shall, upon conviction
thereof by the Municipal Court of the City of Bel Aire, be fined in an amount not to
exceed five hundred dollars plus court costs.
Section 6. Effective Date
This Ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after its
publication in the official city newspaper.
Passed by the City Council this 15th day of October, 2002.
Approved by the President of Council this 15th day of October, 2002.
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