§ 4-7. License - Required; fees; disposition of revenue.

• (a) Dog license required. Every person who owns, controls, harbors, possesses or keeps in the City any dog, shall obtain a dog license with the director of finance. The City of Oakdale may provide for the issuance of serially numbered metallic dog licenses pursuant to this section. Said license fee shall be first due when the animal reaches four months of age and before it attains five months or within thirty days after the dog is acquired, and due on the anniversary date of the original purchase date each year thereafter. New residents shall have thirty days in which to acquire such license. Persons renewing their license shall have thirty days following their due date before being delinquent and having to pay a late penalty. The fee and penalties for such license shall be set forth in § 4-7(b) OCC.

  • (1) In addition to the authority provided in Subsection (a), a license may be issued, as provided by this section, by the City Council for a period not to exceed three years for dogs that have attained the age of twelve months, or older, and who have been vaccinated against rabies.

The person to whom the license is to be issued pursuant to this section may choose a license period as established by the City Council of up to one, two or three years. However, when issuing a license pursuant to this subdivision, the license period shall not extend beyond the remaining period of validity for the current rabies vaccination. The fee for such license shall be set forth from time to time by resolution of the City Council.

A license shall be obtained, but no license fee shall be payable for the licensing of any dog which is trained for guide or hearing purposes by a resident of the City, or any dog currently being used by a local law enforcement agency for the purposes of crime prevention or control.

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City of Oakdale, CA § 4-7

ANIMALS AND FOWL

§ 4-12

The fee paid for a dog license is not refundable.

• (b) Fees and penalties. The annual license fee for keeping the dog within the City shall be set from time to time by resolution of the City Council. Any dog owner who fails to procure such dog license shall, in addition to any other penalty provided in this Code be subject to a penalty of ten dollars and shall be collected herewith.

• (c) Disposition of revenue. Funds collected for dog licenses under this chapter shall be available for the payment of expenditures in accordance with the provisions of Division 3, Chapter 3, Sections 1900 to 2000, of the California Health and Safety Code and Chapter 4, Subchapter 1, Sections 2604 and 2060.6, of the California Administrative Code, Title 17, Public Health. [Ord. No. 1000, § 1; Ord. No. 1045, § 2.]

§ 4-8. Same - Nontransferable. [Ord. No. 1000, § 1.]

No dog license issued under the provisions of this article shall be transferable.

§ 4-9. Same - Tags; duplicates. [Ord. No. 1000, § 1.]

The owner of a dog obtaining a dog license shall attach the license tag to the collar, harness or other device of the dog for which the license was obtained and keep the license on such dog at all times while such license is in force. In the event that any dog license shall have been lost or destroyed, the owner of such dog shall immediately apply for and procure, from the finance director of the City, a duplicate license for such dog. A fee as set from time to time by the Oakdale City Council shall be charged for such duplicate license.

§ 4-10. Same -Exhibiting to police officer; right of entry of police officers. [Ord. No. 1000, § 1.]

The owner of any dog kept or harbored in the City shall upon the request of any police officer of the City exhibit to him the license of such dog. The police officers are each authorized and directed, in order to carry out the provisions of this article and of the laws of this state insofar as they are applicable to such police officers, to enter upon any premises upon which any dog is kept or harbored or upon which the police officers have reason to believe any dog is kept or harbored, and to demand the exhibition to any such officer by the person owning, harboring, keeping or having charge or control of any such dog, of any dog license provided for by this article for the current year.

§ 4-11. Same-Counterfeiting. [Ord. No. 1000, § 1.]

It shall be unlawful for any person to imitate or counterfeit the dog license provided for in this article or to have in his possession in the City any imitation or counterfeit dog license.