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Chapter 5 — ANIMALS AND FOWL›Article III — DOGS

South Pasadena Municipal Code Div. I Generally

South Pasadena Municipal Code · 2026-09 edition · updated 2026-10-04 · South Pasadena

Cite as: South Pasadena Municipal Code Division I · Text as of 2026-10-04

5.24 Definitions.
5.25 Who deemed owner.
5.26 Number of dogs which may be kept by an individual.
5.27 License required.
5.28 Issuance of license tag.
5.29 Duration of license.
5.30 Date license fees due.
5.31 Affixing and wearing tag.
5.32 Repealed by Ordinance No. 1338.
5.33 Repealed by Ordinance No. 1338.
5.34 Amount of license fees.
5.35 Repealed by Ordinance No. 2056.
5.36 Service dogs exempt from fee provisions.
5.37 Dogs discharged from armed forces exempt from fee provisions.
5.38 Disposition of fees collected.
5.39 Licensing provisions not applicable to transients or dogs brought to city for exhibitions.
5.40 Repealed by Ordinance No. 1338.
5.41 Certificate of vaccination.
5.42 Dogs defecating on property.
5.43 Sanitary requirements.
5.43A Penalty for violation of Sections 5.42 and 5.43.
5.44 Running at large.
5.45 Officers to enforce article; right of entry; fees.
5.46 Killing vicious dogs.
5.47 Report of biting dogs; confinement of such dogs.
5.48 Vicious or dangerous dogs.
5.49 Female dogs in heat.
5.50 Commercial breeding dogs; more than one not to be kept within three hundred feet of dwelling of another.
5.51 Barking dogs.
5.52 Holding dog of another for more than twenty-four hours.
5.53 Interference with officers.
DIVISION 2. RABID DOGS
5.54 Notice to police or health officer; examination of dog.
5.55 Quarantine of suspected dogs.
5.56 Duty of veterinarians and kennel operators.

5.57 Surrender of carcass after death of rabid dog.

5.58 Animals bitten by rabid dogs.

5.59 Bringing dog into city from place where rabies is present.

— 5.60 Quarantine in case of epidemic Generally.

— 5.61 Same Dogs to be confined.

5.62 Humane officers’ authority, citation and arrest.

  • As to covering of garbage receptacles, to prevent entry of animals, see § 16.22. As to prohibition against livestock in public parks, see § 21.3. As to riding animals in parks, see § 21.11.

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