HomeMy Public PortalAboutOrdinance 266ORDINANCE NO. 266
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF BEAUMONT AMENDING
ORDINANCE NO. 253 OF THE CITY OF BEAUMONT BY INCREAS-
ING CERTAIN RATES OR FEES AS THEREIN SET FORTH.
The City Council of the City of Beaumont does hereby or-
dain as follows, to wit:
1. That Section 3 (a) of said Ordinance be, and the same is
hereby, amended to read, en toto, as follows, to wit:
The owner of every dog within the incorporated area
of the City of Beaumont shall pay annually a license tax thereon at
the rate of Two Dollars ($2, 00) for each male dog or spayed female
dog and Four Dollars ($4.00) for each unspayed female dog. The
foregoing license tax shall not apply to any dog while kept or main-
tained exclusively in a kennel.
2. That Section 6 (a) of said Ordinance be, and pie same is
hereby, amended to read, en toto, as follows, to wit:
No impounded doh sha i be redeemed except upon pay -
ment of a pound fee in the sum of Two and 50/100 ($2.50) dollars ,
plus a care and feeding charge of One Dollar ($1.00) for each day the
dog has been impounded, together with charges for seizing and trans-
porting said dog to the pound. No dog which is to be kept or har-
bored within any area affected by this Ordinance shall be released
from the Dog Pound unless it is licensed. No unredeemed dog shall
be sold for more than the pound fee plus the cost of care, feeding,
seizing and transporting said dog to the pound; provided, however,
that no such dog shall be sold if or while the same is suffering from
any infections or communicable disease.
3. That the following be an addenda to Paragraph 6 of said
Ordinance 253 and designated as subdivision '°(t7"
(9 in addition to any fees, charges or licenses paid
or to be paid herein, there shall be levied a charge of Two and 50/100
($2.50) Dollars upon any person or persons recovering a dog from
said Pound as and for expenses for seizing, receiving, taking up and
transporting a dog from the place of such seizing, receiving, taking
up and transporting to the Pound.
4. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of this Or-
dinance and shall cause the same to be published once in the Beau-
mont Gazette, a newspaper of general circulation, printed, published
and circulated in the City of Beaumont, and thirty (30) days after its
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adoption this Ordinance shall be in full force and effect.
PASSED, ADOPTED AND APPROVED this /3 day of
May, 1953.
Attest:
CITY OF BEAUMONT
By
City Clerk
I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoingardI ioe was
duly adopted at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City
of Beaumont held on the j344. day of May, 1953, by the follow-
ing vote, to wit:
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City Clerk
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