Chapter 2 · Animal Control and Regulation

Article 4. Cats

Sections 2-401 to 2-407 · 7 sections

2-401 Registration required; fee.

(a)Every owner of any cat shall annually register with the City Clerk his or her name and address with the name, sex and description of each cat owned and kept within the city. It shall be unlawful for the owner of any newly acquired cat or any cat brought into the city to fail to register such animal within 30 days from acquisition or bringing the cat into the city. It shall be unlawful for the owner of any previously registered cat to fail to maintain current registration of such 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 cat over six months of age to fail to maintain effective rabies immunization of such cat.

(c)The owner or harborer of any cat shall, at the time of registering such cat, present to the City Clerk a certificate from an accredited veterinarian showing that a male cat has been neutered, or a female cat has been spayed, if the cat has been neutered or spayed.

(d)The City Clerk shall collect an annual registration fee of $5 for each neutered male cat and for each spayed female cat, and $10 for each unneutered male cat and for each unspayed female cat.

(e)The registration year shall be from June 1st through May 31st of the following year.

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2-402 Tags.

It shall be the duty of the City Clerk or designated agent, upon receipt of the registration fee hereinbefore required, to keep in a book suitable for the registration of 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 cat a certificate in writing, stating that the person has registered the cat and the number by which the cat is registered, and shall also deliver to the owner or keeper of the 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 cat so registered. When any tag has become lost during a registration period, the owner of the cat may request a duplicate tag for the remainder of the registration period. When so requested, the City Clerk shall, upon presentation of the registration 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 cat belonging to another, or remove the strap or collar on which the same is fastened.

(Ord. 503)

2-403 Same; counterfeit tag.

It shall be unlawful for any person to place on any cat a tag issued for any other cat or to make or use any false, forged or counterfeited tag or imitation thereof

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2-404 Evidence of vaccination.

It shall be unlawful for the owner of any 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 cat within two years, when requested by the animal control officer or any law enforcement officer.

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2-405 Visiting cats.

The provisions of this article with response to registration shall not apply to any cat owned by any person visiting or temporarily remaining within the city for less than 30 days. However, such cats shall be kept under restraint by the owner thereof at all times.

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2-406 Noisy cats; fine.

It shall be unlawful for the owner or harborer of any cat to permit such cat to disturb the peace of any neighborhood by loud, frequent and habitual howling, mewing, roaring or screeching or by damaging others property in any manner.

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2-407 Incorporation by reference.

Provisions of Section 2-207, 2-208, and 2-209 concerning running at large, impoundment, disposition, and confinement of dogs, shall also apply to cats with the necessary changes being made.

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