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Chapter 6.05 — ANIMAL CONTROL

Portola Municipal Code · 2026-09 edition · updated 2026-09-27 · Portola

6.05.010 - Title.

6.05.011 - Purpose.

6.05.020 - Definitions.

6.05.030 - Responsibility of the animal control officer.

6.05.040 - Officer's status, arrests, and citations.

6.05.050 - Entry of premises.

6.05.060 - Authority to carry firearm.

6.05.070 - Authority to use tranquilizer gun.

6.05.080 - Impoundment.

6.05.090 - Period of impoundment.

6.05.100 - Animals not redeemed.

6.05.110 - Redemption of impounded animals.

6.05.120 - Voluntary surrender of animals.

6.05.130 - Adoption or destruction authority.

6.05.140 - Adoption of animals.

6.05.150 - Records of impounded or voluntarily surrendered animals.

6.05.160 - Deposit and potentially dangerous dog fees.

6.05.170 - Fees.

6.05.180 - Vaccination required.

6.05.190 - Licensing of dogs required.

6.05.200 - Exemption to dog license requirements.

6.05.210 - Licensing term.

6.05.220 - Late penalties.

6.05.230 - License application.

6.05.240 - Issuance of tags and license certificate.

6.05.250 - Lost tags.

6.05.260 - Transfer of license.

6.05.270 - Maintaining records of dog licenses.

6.05.280 - Display of metallic license tag required.

6.05.290 - Display of license.

6.05.300 - Removal of license tag.

6.05.310 - Unlawful use of rabies or license tag.

6.05.320 - Kennel license required.

6.05.330 - Kennel license term.

6.05.340 - Applications for and processing of kennel licenses.

6.05.350 - Issuance or denial of a kennel license.

6.05.360 - Kennel license renewal.

6.05.370 - Kennel standards.

6.05.380 - Revocation of kennel license.

6.05.390 - Resisting an animal control officer.

6.05.400 - Unlawful removal of animals.

6.05.410 - Animals prohibited from food establishments.

6.05.420 - Animals running at large prohibited.

6.05.430 - Dogs running at large on farm prohibited.

6.05.440 - Dogs pursuing livestock, protected animals or game animals.

6.05.450 - Female dog in heat—Running at large/accessibility prohibited.

6.05.460 - Nuisances by animals.

6.05.470 - Vicious or dangerous animal.

6.05.480 - Authority to declare animals vicious or dangerous.

6.05.490 - Potentially dangerous or vicious dog.

6.05.500 - Wild, exotic, or nondomestic animals.

6.05.510 - Animal abandonment prohibited.

6.05.520 - Dead animals and fowl.

6.05.530 - Authority to capture or kill dogs pursuing livestock, game animals or fully…

6.05.540 - Holding of animals.

6.05.550 - Isolation of rabid animals or clinically suspected rabid animals.

6.05.560 - Isolation (quarantine) of biting animals.

6.05.570 - Animal contacts.

6.05.580 - Appeals.

6.05.590 - Absence of liability.

6.05.600 - Penalties for violations of provisions of this chapter.

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