Ordinance No. 95-61-4 v ORDINANCE NO. 9 S-to /- 9-
AN ORDINANCE Regulating the keeping of
dogs in the City of Atlantic Beach,
Florida; Providing for the Registration
and Tagging of all Dogs kept within the
limits of said City; Authorizing the
Impounding of Unregistered and Untagged
Dogs and the Dispossession and Destruc-
tion of unredeemed impounded Dogs; and
Providing Penalty for Violation of the
Provisions of this Ordinance
BE IT ENACTED by the People of the City of Atlantic
Beach, Florida:
Section 1. No dogs, Male or Female, shall be owned
or kept in the City unless properly registered and tagged
as hereinafter provided. The City Clerk shall require,
prerequisite to registration, proof showing that such dog
has been inoculated against rabies within one year imme-
diately prior to any application for such registration.
The certificate of a veterinarian, licensee to practice
veterinary medicine and surgery by the Board of Veterinary
Examiners of the State of Florida, shall be accepted as
conclusive evidence to the fact and time of such inocu-
lation.
Section 2. No person shall be allowed to keep any
dog, Male or Female, in the city unless the person shall
first register such dog with the City and purchase from
the City an identification tag for each dog for the sum
of two dollars per annum. The tag is to be attached to
each dog's collar and worn continuously. The City shall
upon issuance of the tag, make a record of the name and
address of the owner of :'he dog, the number of the tag,
the physical description of the dog, and the date the
tag was issued. The tags shall be metal and be numbered
and issued in regular sequence. Licenses shall be due
and payable the first day of June of each year.
Section 3. Any unlicensed or untagged dog found
running at large on any of _the public streets, parks,
playgrounds, alleys, beaches or vacant lots in the city
shall be picked up by a designated authorized agent and
placed in a shelter for a period not to exceed seven days.
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Any licensed dog that may be committing a nuisance,
• and found running at large on any of the public streets,
parks, playgrounds, alleys, beaches, or vacant lots in
the city is subject to being picked up by the designated
authorized agent and placed in a shelter for a period
not to exceed seven days.
The dog or dogs may be redeemed by the owner thereof
upon identifying same and by paying the cost of feeding
for the period confined and any other expenses including
compliance with the license requirement before the dog
is released. The License fee will be double the fee in
effect on the date the dog is picked up. At the expiration
of seven days, if the dog has not been redeemed by the
owner, then the dog or dogs shall become the property of
the authorized agent, who may arrange for the disposition
of the dog or dogs in a humane manner. The owner of any
licensed and tagged dog picked up will be notified.
Section 4. If a dog is suspected of having rabies,
or has been bitten by another animal suspected of having
rabies, such dog shall be confined on the owner 's pre-
mises and the Humane Society or a licensed veterinarian
notified at once. The dog shall then be removed to the
proper place for observation for a period of two weeks
at the expense of the owner.
Section 5. It shall be unlawful for any person who
shall own or be in control of or in charge of any dog, to
allow or permit such dog to wander or stray upon the pro-
perty of another and damage such property.
In the event any such dog shall wander or stray upon
the property of any person within the corporate limits of
the city and shall cause damage thereon, proof of such
damage and the ident-=ty of the dog shall be sufficient to
convict the person owning or having charge of or control
of the dog of violating the terms and provisions of this
article.
Section 6. In the event any person is bitten by a
dog within the corporate limits of the city then it shall
become the duty of such person and the owner of the dog,
with knowledge thereof, to immediately report such incident
to the police department of the city, who in turn must
notify the Duval County Health Officer.
Section 7 . It shall be unlawful for any owner or
keeper of any vicious dog to permit such dog to run at
large or without the enclosure of the owner or keeper
thereof within the corporate limits of the city without
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being properly muzzled. Any dog known to have bitten
any person is hereby defined as a "vicious dog" but the
term "vicious dog" shall not be limited to only these
dogs who are known to have bitten any person.
Section 8. No person shall in any manner inter-
fere with, prevent or hinder any officer or person
mentioned in this ordinance in the performance of any
duty required by this ordinance, and no person, not
being required by this ordinance, and no person, not
being the owner or possessor of such dog, shall re-
move or take off, or cause to be removed or taken off,
the collar or tag of any dog within the city.
Section 9. Any person violating any of the provi-
sions of this ordinance, shall upon conviction be punish-
ed by a fine not to exceed $100.00, or by imprisonment
in the City Jail not to exceed 30 days, or by both
such fine and imprisonment.
Section 10. This Ordinance shall become effective
immediately upon its passage.
Passed by the City Commission on first reading,
/,li4.,.is 3 ;e(N., 1961.
Passed by the City Commission on second and final
reading, /-724 1961.
Attest:
A
City Clerk
(SEAL)