§ 6.04.150. License for keeping a dog.

The license fee for keeping a dog is established at eighteen dollars for each dog, provided an additional eighteen dollar fee will be assessed for each dog if such dog is not spayed or neutered, and provided further an additional ten dollars will be assessed for each dog if the owner's dwelling or place where the dog resides does not have a fenced yard or fenced run that will adequately confine the dog. A reduction of three dollars can be obtained by having a microchip implanted into the dog and registering the microchip with the City upon application of a license to keep a dog. Any owner of a dog that is in or has been retired from the U.S. Armed Forces, a Service dog which is documented to have been individually trained to provide assistance to an individual with a disability, a licensed Search and Rescue dog or a dog owned and used by a governmental entity for law enforcement or public safety purposes shall not be required to pay the license fee upon obtaining the license to keep the dog, but shall be subject to all other requirements contained in this chapter. The City Treasurer shall impose a five dollar annual penalty on all license renewals beginning thirty days following the expiration of the previous license. Owners delinquent on purchase of a license shall be required to pay all previously unpaid licenses and penalties to become current. The same penalty and license fee calculation of delinquency shall be assessed to owners of all dogs not previously or currently covered by licenses thirty days after the owner has been notified to obtain such license.

(Ord. No. 47-695, § 21, 12-4-07)