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ORDINANCE NO. 24
(Series of 1978)
A~ ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 5 OF THE MUNICIPAL
CODE OF THE CITY OF ASPEN BY SETTING DOG LICENSE
FEES AND PENALTY ASSESSMENTS FOR FAILURE TO LICENSE
DOGS
WHEREAS, the City Council has determined that it will
promote the public health, safety and welfare to discourage
unwanted litters (dog) within the City of Aspen, and on
recommendation of the city Dog Warden, has considered and
determined to amend the City's dog regulations to that effect,
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF
THE CITY OF ASPEN, COLORADO:
Section 1
~i'hat Section 5-27 of the Aspen Municipal Code is hereby
repealed.
Section 2
?hat Section 5-28 of the Aspen Municipal Code is hereby
repealed and reenacted to read as follows:
Sec. 3-28. Annual vaccination and licensing required;
fee; application
(a) No dog over the age of six (6) months shall be
kept, harbored or maintained within the City of Aspen,
Colorado, unless the owner, keeper or person in charge
of such animal shall have the animal inoculated against
rabies and bi-annually pay a designated agent of the
City of Aspen for collection (as may from time to time
be designated by the City) a license fee of Fifteen ($15.00)
Dollars for unneutered dogs (or Two ($2.00) for neutered
dogs) to be remitted to the City of Aspen as directed from
time to time by the City of Aspen for each and every dog
owned, kept or harbored. For purposes of this paragraph 2,
persons authorized to perform vaccinations against rabies
may be designated as agents of the city for the collection
of license fees hereunder.
(b) At the time of application for licensing of a dog,
the owner thereof shall state, upon a printed form provided
for such purposes, his name and address and the breed, color
and sex of the dog to be licensed.
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Section 3
That Paragraph 5-68(c) be
of subparagraph 2 as follows:
(2) No dog license
amended by the amendment
Neutered dog $10.00
Unneutered dog $15.00
Section 4
That Section 5-68(d) be repealed and reenacted to read as
follows:
(d) In determining the appropriate penalty assessment
for a violation of the "Dog Running at Large" section
hereof, the first offense shall be deemed the first
violation occurring after the date of issuance (and the anni-
versary date thereof) of the license tag worn by the offending
dog, or simply the first such violation in the case of an
unlicensed dog. The numbering of such offenses shall be
deemed to begin anew on the date a new bi-annual license
is issued for a dog, and, again, on the anniversary date
of issuance; provided that i~ such new license is issued
fewer than eleven (11) months from the date of issuance (or
anniversary date thereof) a former license was acquired
hereunder, the number of such offenses shall not begin anew
until the actual expiration date (or first anniversary
thereof) of the former license.
Section 5
If any provision of this ordinance or the application thereof
to any person or circumstance is held invalid, such invalidity
shall not affect other provisions or applications of the
ordinance which can be given effect without the invalid pro-
vision or application, and to this end the provisions of this
ordinance are declared to be severable.
Section 6
A public hearing on the ordinance shall be held on
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City Council Chambers,
, 1978, at 5:00 P.M. in the
Aspen City Hall, Aspen, Colorado.
INTRODUCED, READ AND ORDERED published as provided by
law by the City Council of the City of Aspen, Colorado,
its regular meeting held at
of ~_ ,
ATTEST:
at
the city of A~spen on the /~)~ day
1978.
~-Stacy S~ndley III /
Mayor / ~----~: ~/
i[athryn ~ Hauter
City Clerk
FINALLY adopted, passed and approved on the~ day
/
of ~~ , 1978.,
Stacy~tandley III /
Mayor[
ATTEST:
Kathryn S~Hauter
City Clerk
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STATE OF COLORADO )
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COUNTY OF PITKIN )
CERTIFICATE
I, Kathryn S. Hauter, City Clerk of Aspen, Colorado,
do hereby certify that the above and foregoing ordinance was
introduced, read in full, and passed on ~~
reading at a regular meeting of the City Council of the
City of Aspen on ~ /~ , 197 ~, and publish-
ed in the Aspen Times a weekly newspaper of general circul-
ation, published in the City of Aspen, Colorado, in its
issue of ~ J~ , 197~, and was finally adopted
and approved at a regular meeting of the Cit~ Council on
~~-~ , 197~, and ordered published as
~ v
Ordinance No. c~Z , Series of 197 ~, of said City, as
provided by law.
IN WITNESS W}~REOF,
the seal of said City of Aspen, Colorado,
day of ~ , 197~ .
I have hereunto set my hand and
Kathryn S~{auter., City Clerk