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Sec. 14-35. Annual licensing/permit fee; penalty for nonpayment.

(a) The dog permit fee is established at $5.00 for either male or female dogs covering a period of 12 months from the date of vaccination; provided, that a person owning, keeping or harboring a dog which has been retired from the U.S. Armed Forces, a dog trained to lead a blind person which is registered as a seeing eye dog, or police department or sheriff's dog shall be not be required to pay the permit fee upon the registration of such dog, but shall be subject to all other regulations and requirements. The city clerk shall impose a 25 percent per month penalty on all dog permit renewals beginning 30 days following the expiration of the previous permit, and on all dogs not previously or currently covered by permit.

(b) There is an annual animal licensing/permit fee in the amount stated above provided on each dog or cat owned or kept within the city. The fee shall be paid to the city or to a licensed veterinarian. It shall be the duty of any licensed veterinarian collecting a fee under this subsection to remit the fee to the city by the 10th of the month next following the month in which said fee is collected. The issuing veterinarian shall be permitted to keep $1.00 of the $5.00 permit/licensing fee collected as a handling fee.

(Ord. No. 2943, 10-26-99; Ord. No. 4092, § 1, 8-14-07)

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