Ordinance 2595r
0006.16003
WSS/naa
12/02/86
R: 12/09/86
ORDINANCE NO. 2595
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EDMONDS, WASHINGTON,
AMENDING ECC 5.05.020 RELATING TO DOG LICENSING
TO ESTABLISH NEW AND INCREASED FEES FOR LICENSES
AND AN INCREASED LATE PENALTY FEE, AND FIXING A
TIME WHEN THE SAME SHALL BECOME EFFECTIVE
WHEREAS, the City of Edmonds has established license
fees for the licensing of dogs, and
WHEREAS, it is the Council's intention in establishing
such fees to recoup all or a substantial portion of the costs of
licensing, and
WHEREAS, the Council finds that the current fees as
established are insufficient to provide such reimbursement to the
City for its actual costs incurred, NOW, THEREFORE,
FOLLOWS:
THE CITY COUNCIL OF EDMONDS, WASHINGTON, DO ORDAIN AS
Section 1. ECC Section 5.05.020 DOG LICENSING,
subparagraph (C) License Tags Issued and Fees, is hereby amended
to read as follows:
5.05.020 DOG LICENSING
C. License Tags Issued and Fees. The Police
Department, or such other person, firm or entity as
shall be designated by the City Council by contract or
otherwise, shall issue a dog license upon the payment
of a fee as provided for by this subsection. Upon
issuance of the license, a metal tag with the number
corresponding to the number of the application shall be
furnished to the applicant.
1) The applicant shall cause the same to be
attached to the dog. The tag shall not be
transferable from one dog to another.
2) The following fees shall be paid for license
required under this Chapter:
a. For spayed females or neutered males
with a veterinarian certificate or signed
affidavit - an annual license fee of $5.00,
provided that a $3.00 fee shall be charged
persons over the age of 65;
b. For dogs less than six months, but over
three months of age, temporary tags shall be
issued, - a license fee of $5.00. Persons
over the age of 65 shall receive a rebate of
$2.00 at the time of relicensing, upon
certification by a veterinarian that they
have been spayed or neutered.
C. Unspayed females and unneutered males
over six months of age - $18.00.
Section 2. ECC 5.05.020 DOG LICENSING, subsection E.
Fee Due Dates, Penalty, is hereby amended to read as follows:
5.05.020 DOG LICENSING
E. Fee Due Dates, Penalty. All licenses granted under
this section shall be due and fees therefore payable on
or before the first business day of January in each
year. If the license fees provided for in this Chapter
are not paid on or before March 1 of each year, the
applicant shall pay a penalty fee of $18.00 for each
license in addition to the regular fee as set forth in
subsection (C) of this section. Whenever any person
shall come into charge, care or control of any dog, the
original license application and fee therefore shall
become due and payable within thirty (30) days of said
date, and the penalty fee above provided shall be
imposed sixty (60) days after the date said license fee
and application became due and payable.
Section 3. This ordinance, being an administrative
action, is not subject to referendum and shall take effect five
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(5) days after publication of the attached summary which is
hereby approved.
APPROVED:
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MAYOR, LAR S. NAUGHTEN
ATTEST/AUTHENTICATED:
JACQUELINE PARRETT, CITY CLERK
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
OFFICE OF THE CITY ATTORNEY
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FILED WITH THE CITY CLERK: December 9, 1986
PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL: December 16,1.986
PUBLISHED: December 21, 1986
EFFECTIVE DATE: December 26, 1986
ORDINANCE NO. 2595
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STATE OF WASHINGTON,
COUNTY OF SNOHOIXILISH,
,ESTABLISH NEW AND
INCREASED FEES FOR
LICENSES AND AN
INCREASED LATE
PENALTY FEE AND
FIXING A TIME WPEN THE
SAME SHALL BECOME
EFFECTIVE
On December 16, 1986, the
City [Council of the City of
Edmdnds passed Ordinance No.
2595 which provides as follows:
Section 1. Amending ECC
o provide for a $5.00
license fee for spayed female or
neutered male dogs, with a
reduced fee of $3.00 for persons
over the qye of 65 a $5.00 fee
for dogs Tess than six months but
over three months of age; and
on 518.00 fee for unspayed and
unneutered male dogs over six
months of age.'
Section 2. Amending ECC
5'O=U(E)—to Increase the
penalty fee to $19.00 for each
license.
Section 3. Establishing an
effe rvc�fi a date of 5 days after
publication of this approved
- ordinance summary.
The full text of this ordinance
will be mailed without charge to
anyone who submits a written
request to the City Clerk of the
City of Edmonds for a copy of
the text.
APPROVED by the City
Council at their meeting of
December 16, 1986.
JACQUELINE G. PARRETT
City Clerk
Published: Dec. 21, 1986.
Ss.
Affidavit of Publication
The undersigned, being first duly sworn on oath deposes and says
that she is Principal Clerk of THE HERALD, . a daily newspaper
printed and published in the City of Everett, County of Snohomish,
and State of Washington; that said newspaper is a newspaper of
general circulation in said County and State; that said newspaper
has been approved as a legal newspaper by order of the Superior
Court of Snohomish County and that the notice ........................................
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a printed copy of which is hereunto attached, was published in said
newspaper proper and not in supplement form, in the regular and
entire edition of said paper on the following days and times, namely:
DECEMBER 21, 1986
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and that said newspaper was regularly distributed to its subscribers
during all of said period.
Principal Clerk
Subscribed and sworn to before me this....22nd
dayof ...... -DE MBER.........................................
No r Public ' and for the State of Washington,
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