HomeMy WebLinkAbout1212 ORDINANCE NO. 1~.12
AN ORDINANCE of the City of Bremerton providing for the
licensing of cats kept or maintained within the City Limits of
the 0ity of Bremerton.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF HREMERTON:
Section 1. LICENSE FEES FOR CATS. That a license fee or
tax is hereby levied against every cat kept or maintained within
the Oity Limits of the City of Bremerton, and the owner of every
cat kept or maintained within the City Limits of the City of
Bremerton shall pay a license to the City Treasurer of the City of
Bremerton for each of said cats so kept and maintained, as follows:
For each male cat per year $.~, ?~"~ ~ ~~
For sterilized female cat per year .~6 .?~-% ~ ~-~-~?~?
~'or each unsterilized female cat, per year .~$ 4 ~'~ ~
Section 2. METAL LICENSE TAGS. The City Clerk of the City of
Bremerton be and he is hereby authorized and directed to provide
appropriate metal license tags, one each of which shall be delivered
to the owner or owners of Catw paying such license, and the owner or
owners of all such cats for which such license tax has been paid
shall securely attach such metal license tag to each of said cats.
Section 3. Date for Payment of license fee. Impounding of Cat.
Such license shall be paid on or before the first day of July of
each year, and any license paid before July 1, 1938 shall be for
one year from July l, 1938; the Chief of Police o~ said city be
and he is hereby authorized and directed to ~ick up, or cause to
be ~icked and impounded, all cats found within the City Limits of
the City of Bremerton after the first day of July, 1938 of each year,
beginning July l, 1938, upon which no license fee has been paid or
on which no license tag is found.
Section 4. ~MPOUNDED CATS: Unless an impounde~ animal is
suffering from serious injury or disease, the owner o2 keeper
may r~deem any cat within 48 hours by paying to the Chief of
Police or Poundmaster, the prescribed license tax, together with
a penalty of $1.00, and any other person may thereafter redeem
same; provided, however, that after the first 48 hours, there shall
be an additional charge for keeping the said animal of $.35 cents
per day which shall be paid to the keeper for his work in keeping
same, in addition to the $1.00 for the first ~8 hours.
Section 5. PENALTY. Any person violating or failing to
comply with any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall
be punished by a fine in any sum not exceeding $100.00, or by
imprisonment in the city Jail for a p~riod of not more than thirty
(30) days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
PASSED by the City Commission, signed by th~ Mayor and attested
by the City Clerk this 23rd day of April, 1938.
Attest:
' ~city Clerk
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