(a) Every owner of any dog or cat over six months of age shall annually register with the city clerk his or her name and address with the name, sex and description of each dog or cat owned and kept within the city. It shall be unlawful for the owner of any such dog or cat to fail to maintain current registration of such dog or cat.
(b) Upon registration, the owner 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 of any dog or cat described in (a) above to fail to maintain effective rabies immunization of such dog or cat.
(c) The city clerk shall collect an annual registration fee of $5 for each dog or cat that has been spayed or neutered, and $10 for those that have not.
(d) The registration year shall be from January 1st through December 31st of each year. The fee shall be payable before March 1st of each year without penalty.
Registration fees as enumerated hereinabove may be prorated for newly acquired dogs or cats or for dogs or cats owned by a person or persons moving to and establishing a home in the city during a calendar year. Every owner or harborer of dogs or cats who shall fail to register the same prior to the 1st day of March of each year shall pay in addition to the registration fee hereinabove provided a penalty fee for late registration of $5.
(Ord. 257, Sec. 2; Code 1989; Code 1994)
It shall be the duty of the city clerk or designated agent, upon a showing of current rabies immunization and receipt of the registration fee hereinbefore required, to keep in a book suitable for the registration of dogs and cats, the time of the registration, the name of the owner or keeper, the number of the registration and the amount paid therefor, and shall deliver to the owner or keeper of the dog or cat a certificate in writing, stating that the person has registered the dog or cat and the number by which the dog or cat is registered, and shall also deliver to the owner or keeper of the dog or cat a tag with the registration number and the registration year thereon, which shall be, by the owner or keeper, attached to the collar to be used on the dog or cat so registered. When it shall be made to appear to the city clerk that any tag has become lost, he or she shall, upon presentation of the certificate, issue a duplicate of such tag upon the payment of $1 fee. It shall be unlawful for any person to take off or remove the city registration tag from any dog or cat belonging to another, or remove the strap or collar on which the same is fastened.
(Ord. 257, Secs. 3:6; Code 1989)
It shall be unlawful for any person to place on any dog or cat a tag issued for any other dog or cat, or to make or use any false, forged or counterfeited tag or imitation thereof.
(Code 1989)
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, such dogs or cats shall be kept under restraint by the owner thereof at all times.
(Code 1989)
(a) It shall be unlawful for the owner or harborer of any dog or cat to permit such dog or cat to run at large within the city at any time;
(b) Any dog or cat running at large within the city shall be impounded as set out in section 2-206;
(c) The owner of any dog or cat impounded for running at large without the tag required by section 1-202 shall, for the first offense, pay a fine of $25 - $200 plus the board bill; for the second offense a fine of $50 - $300 plus the board bill; for a third and subsequent offenses a fine of $75 - $300 plus the board bill;
(d) For the first offense of an animal running at large with a tag as required by section 2-201, owner or harborer claiming any animal, shall, in addition to presenting a registration receipt, pay a fine of no more than $25, plus the board bill. For a second offense, the owner or harborer shall pay a fine of $25 - $200 plus the board bill. For a third and all subsequent offenses, the owner or harborer shall pay a fine of $50 - $300 plus the cost of the board bill and the animal shall be subject to impoundment as described in section 2-206.
(Code 1989)
(a) Any dog or cat found in violation of the provisions of this article shall be subject to impoundment by the city.
(b) A record of all dogs and cats impounded shall be kept by the city containing the following information: color, sex, weight, height, identifying marks, registration number (if any) and the date of impoundment.
(c) No dog or cat impounded under this section shall be disposed of until after expiration of a minimum of three full business days of custody during which the public has clear access to inspect and recover the dog and cat through time periods ordinarily accepted as usual business hours. During such time of custody, the city shall attempt to notify the owner or custodian of any dog or cat impounded by such facility if the owner or custodian is known or reasonably ascertainable. Such dog or cat may at any time be released to the legal owner, moved to a veterinary hospital for treatment or observation, released in any manner, if such dog or cat was a gift to the animal shelter, or euthanized by a licensed veterinarian if it appears to the veterinarian that the dog or cat is diseased or disabled beyond recovery. If within three full business days the owner does not appear to claim the dog or cat, then the dog or cat may be sold, euthanized or otherwise disposed of.
(d) If at any time before the sale or destruction of any dog or cat impounded under the provisions of this article, the owner of an impounded dog or cat does appear and redeem the dog or cat, it shall be turned over to the person claiming it upon payment of any impoundment fees or penalties plus the actual costs of impoundment, and shall not apply to any dog or cat alleged as being vicious under section 2-115 or suspected of rabies under section 2-118 of this code.
(e) The minimum impoundment fee shall be $5.
(f) Any dog impounded may not be released without a current rabies vaccination.
(g) Impoundment hereunder shall not preclude any court from imposing and executing any fine which might otherwise be levied under this article for violation of any of the provisions thereof; nor shall impoundment be a defense in any prosecution commenced hereunder.
(h) The redemption of any dog impounded for a violation of any provision of this chapter shall be prima facie evidence of the violation of such provision by the person redeeming the dog.
(Code 2003)
(a) No person or household shall own or harbor more than four dogs of six months of age or older or more than one litter of pups, or more than four cats of more than six months of age or more than one litter of kittens, or more than a total of four dogs and cats more than six months of age in any combination, or engage in the commercial business of breeding, buying selling, trading, training, or boarding cats or dogs or both cats and dogs, without having obtained a kennel license from the city clerk.
(b) Kennel licenses must be renewed annually. No kennel license shall be issued until an inspection certificate has been issued by the animal control officer certifying approval of the kennel and compliance with the applicable laws of the city and the State of Kansas, and a certificate by the zoning code enforcement officer has been issued certifying that the applicant for the kennel license is not violating zoning laws of the city. If the city clerk has not received any protest against the kennel, the city clerk may issue a renewal of an existing kennel license at the same location without any report from the animal control officer and zoning code enforcement officer. If the animal control officer or the zoning code enforcement officer finds that the holder of any kennel license is violating any zoning law, or any other law of the State of Kansas, or of the city, or is maintaining the facility in a manner detrimental to the health, safety or peace of mind of any person residing in the immediate vicinity, he or she shall report such fact to the city clerk, and the license shall not be renewed except after a public hearing before the governing body.
(c) The animal control officer, the zoning enforcement officer, or any law enforcement officer shall have the right to inspect any premises licensed under this section at any reasonable time and nothing shall prevent the entry onto private property for the purpose of inspection. The application for a kennel shall constitute consent to such entry and inspection.
(d) The governing body may suspend or revoke a kennel license if, pursuant to a public hearing, it finds any of the following:
(1) The kennel is maintained in violation of any applicable law of the State of Kansas, or of the city.
(2) The kennel is maintained so as to be a public nuisance.
(3) The kennel is maintained so as to be detrimental to the health, safety or peace of mind of persons residing in the immediate vicinity.
(e) The annual kennel license fee shall be $300. Payment of such license fee is in addition to, and not in lieu of, the dog license fees otherwise required under this article.
(f) This section shall not apply to and will not be construed to require a kennel license for a licensed veterinarian to operate an animal hospital.
(Code 1989)
Any unspayed female dog in the stage of estrus (heat) shall be confined during such period of time in a house, building or secure enclosure, and the area of enclosure shall be so constructed that no other dog or dogs may gain voluntary access to the confined animal except for purposes of planned breeding. Any animal that is in the state of estrus (heat) and that is not properly confined, or any such animal that is creating a neighborhood nuisances, shall be removed to a boarding kennel, to a veterinary hospital or to the animal shelter. All expenses incurred as a result of the confinement shall be paid by the owner. The owner of animals removed to the animal shelter shall be charged at the rate established from time to time by the animal shelter for routine confinement.
(Code 1989)