[Ord. No. 800-12 §1(4-21), 12-19-2012]
Any person owning, keeping, harboring, or having custody of
any dog over six (6) months of age or any cat over six (6) months
of age must have such animal vaccinated against rabies and registered
as herein provided. This provision shall not apply to animals owned
by a licensed facility or government operated or licensed animal shelter.
This requirement will not apply to a non-resident keeping a dog or
cat within the City of Byrnes Mill for no longer than thirty (30)
days.
[Ord. No. 800-12 §1(4-22), 12-19-2012]
All dogs and cats shall be vaccinated against rabies by a licensed
veterinarian in accordance with the latest "Compendium of Animal Rabies
Vaccines and Recommendations for Immunization" published by the National
Association of State Public Health Veterinarians.
[Ord. No. 800-12 §1(4-23), 12-19-2012]
A.
It
is hereby made the duty of the City Clerk to procure at the expense
of the City of Byrnes Mill every year a sufficient number of metallic
plates differing in size and shape from those of the previous year
as specified.
B.
The
City shall prepare license forms, together with correspondingly numbered
tags for distribution to animal owners, in a form they deem is best
calculated to further the progress of the program provided for in
this Article. Spaces shall be provided for the following information
and for such other information as the City and/or Health Officer may
require to be filled in by the owner detailing the following information:
[Ord. No. 800-12 §1(4-24), 12-19-2012]
Every keeper of a dog and/or cat (an animal) within the City
of Byrnes Mill shall cause the same to have a current rabies immunization
and shall obtain a written certificate and metal tag to be attached
to the animal's collar of such immunization from the veterinarian
administering the same.
[Ord. No. 800-12 §1(4-25), 12-19-2012]
The fee for each combined unit of corresponding vaccination-registration
certificate and tag for the purpose of maintaining the system of vaccination-registration
established by this Article shall be established from time to time
by the City Aldermanic Board and adopted by resolution. Maintenance
expenses shall include materials, notification, filing, investigation,
and enforcement to increase and maintain a high level of rabies immunization
in the City.
[Ord. No. 800-12 §1(4-26), 12-19-2012]
Registration fees shall not be required for seeing-eye dogs
or governmental police dogs.
[Ord. No. 800-12 §1(4-27), 12-19-2012]
At the time of the vaccination of any animal pursuant to this
Article, the person performing the vaccination shall deliver to the
owner of the animal the tag obtained from the Health Department, as
evidence of such inoculation. Every owner of a vaccinated animal shall
attach the tag evidencing rabies vaccination and registration to the
collar or harness of the vaccinated animal and such collar or harness
shall be worn by the animal at all times. Any animal without a tag
shall be deemed to be not vaccinated.
[Ord. No. 800-12 §1(4-28), 12-19-2012]
No person shall divulge, distribute, disseminate, give, transfer,
show, make available or allow a copy to be made of the name or address
of any owner of an animal registered under this Article to or by any
person other than an officer of the City, State or Federal office
or department for the purpose of registration, tax collection, law
enforcement, or rabies or other disease control in his respective
jurisdiction; nor shall any of the persons authorized to be in possession
of such names and addresses use such information for any purposes
other than those allowed above, nor shall any other person make any
use, relating to animals, of any such name or address that has been
obtained as a direct or indirect result of the vaccination-registration
program provided for in this Article; nor shall any person pose as
or falsely claim to be a Health Officer's employee or an agent of
the Health Officer or any other governmental agency while soliciting,
or making a survey of the names or addresses of animal owners in any
area in which this Article is in effect.
[Ord. No. 800-12 §1(4-29), 12-19-2012]
Registration shall not be transferred from animal to animal,
and no person shall affix a registration tag to an animal other than
the animal for which the tag was issued at the time of its rabies
vaccination-registration, nor shall any person affix a registration
tag to an animal that has not been vaccinated against rabies, nor
shall any person counterfeit, alter, obliterate, or attempt to counterfeit,
alter, or obliterate any rabies registration tags.
[Ord. No. 800-12 §1(4-30), 12-19-2012]
All dogs and cats brought into the City shall comply with rabies
vaccination requirements. If such animal remains more than thirty
(30) days, such animal shall be registered in accordance with the
provisions of this Article. Any legally acceptable certificate of
rabies vaccination, the initial and residual efficiency of which has
been approved by the Health Department, shall be exchanged for a current
vaccination-registration certificate and tag upon payment of any applicable
fee.
[Ord. No. 800-12 §1(4-31), 12-19-2012; Ord. No. 804-13, 1-16-2013]
Persons who fail to vaccinate and register their animal as required
within the time period specified in this Article shall be subjected
to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars ($500.00) or imprisonment
for not more than ninety (90) days, or both.
