Chapter 8.04 — ANIMALS AND POUND
Duarte Municipal Code · 2026-09 edition · updated 2026-10-02 · Duarte
8.04.010 - Title.¶
8.04.020 - Definitions of terms.¶
8.04.030 - Animal control officer.¶
8.04.040 - Deputies.¶
8.04.050 - Police powers.¶
8.04.060 - License and tax powers.¶
8.04.070 - Duties.¶
8.04.080 - Interference with duty.¶
8.04.090 - Entering upon premises.¶
8.04.100 - Exhibition of license.¶
8.04.110 - City animal shelter provided.¶
8.04.120 - Impounding.¶
8.04.130 - Care of animals.¶
8.04.140 - Reclaiming of animals.¶
8.04.150 - Fees for impounding.¶
8.04.160 - Destruction of impounded unfit animals.¶
8.04.170 - License and registration required.¶
8.04.180 - Transfer.¶
8.04.190 - Procurement of license certificates.¶
8.04.200 - Issuance of license tags and certificates.¶
8.04.210 - Time limit—License fee.¶
8.04.220 - Penalty fees.¶
8.04.230 - License fee exemption.¶
8.04.240 - Optional identification license for cats.¶
8.04.250 - Tag must be shown.¶
8.04.260 - Removal of registration tags.¶
8.04.270 - Counterfeiting tags.¶
8.04.280 - Running at large prohibited.¶
8.04.290 - Impounding and quarantine.¶
8.04.300 - Giving notice of captured animals.¶
8.04.310 - Rabies—Vaccination.¶
8.04.320 - Rabies—Revaccination.¶
8.04.330 - Rabies—Certificate.¶
8.04.340 - Rabies—Licensing requirements.¶
8.04.350 - License—Evidence.¶
8.04.360 - Health officer or animal control officer to have dog examined for rabies.¶
8.04.370 - Unlawful for any person to fail to notify health officer, his deputies or…¶
8.04.380 - Dogs and other animals to be quarantined for ten days.¶
8.04.390 - Knowledge of bite—Duty to report.¶
8.04.400 - Notice and redemption of impounded dog.¶
8.04.410 - Fee for recovery of dog or cat, feeding.¶
8.04.420 - Minimum period of impounding dog.¶
8.04.430 - Minimum period of impounding cat.¶
8.04.440 - Sale of impounded dogs, cats and other animals—Summary destruction.¶
8.04.450 - Spaying or altering required.¶
8.04.460 - Breeding of dogs and dog kennels.¶
8.04.470 - Breeding of cats and cat kennels.¶
8.04.480 - Cat or dog breeding permit.¶
8.04.490 - Limitation on number of dogs and cats kept; limitation on number of pot bellied pigs kept.¶
8.04.500 - Animal feces.¶
8.04.510 - Running at large prohibited—Other animals.¶
8.04.520 - Fowls and rabbits not to run at large.¶
8.04.530 - Artificial treatment.¶
8.04.540 - Sale of young.¶
8.04.550 - Miscellaneous animals—Monkeys, horses, chickens and ducks.¶
8.04.560 - Bees.¶
8.04.570 - Slaughter of animals.¶
8.04.580 - Allowing wild or vicious animals to run at large prohibited.¶
8.04.590 - Keeping wild or vicious animal within or upon own premises.¶
8.04.600 - Permit required.¶
8.04.610 - Appeal.¶
8.04.620 - Permit conditions.¶
8.04.630 - Temporary permit.¶
8.04.640 - Possession and custody.¶
8.04.650 - Application for permit.¶
8.04.660 - Review of application for permits.¶
8.04.670 - Exception for transportation of animals through city.¶
8.04.680 - Permit fee.¶
8.04.690 - Commercial establishments.¶
8.04.700 - Term and renewal of permits.¶
8.04.710 - Revocation of permits.¶
8.04.720 - Appeal.¶
8.04.730 - Cleanliness of premises where animals are kept.¶
8.04.740 - Veterinary hospital—Notice of death of animals.¶
8.04.750 - Veterinary hospital—Retention of dead animals.¶
8.04.760 - Carcass of animal.¶
8.04.770 - Manure bins and removal of manure.¶
8.04.780 - Health officer of the city or animal control officer may order premises and…¶
8.04.790 - Dogs in stores or conveyances.¶
8.04.800 - Transporting animals on motor vehicles.¶
8.04.810 - License and permit fees—Debts—Legal liability.¶
8.04.820 - Keeping diseased animals prohibited—Exception.¶
8.04.830 - Rabies.¶
8.04.840 - Noisy animals.¶
8.04.850 - Horses—Speed restricted.¶
8.04.860 - Traps prohibited.¶
8.04.865 - Feeding of wildlife prohibited.¶
8.04.870 - Application by reference.¶
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