Suisun City Municipal Code Ch. 6.15 Kennel Regulations

All kennels or other places where dogs are kept in the city for breeding, training, sale or other commercial purpose shall be so constructed as to prevent dogs confined therein from running at large off the premises where such kennel is maintained. Any such kennel shall be maintained, operated and constructed in a sanitary and proper manner so that the same will not become a nuisance to the neighborhood thereof. Dogs may be removed from kennels, for training or treatment purposes, provided that competent control and supervision is maintained over such dogs at all times.

(Ord. 537 § 2(part), 1986)

Every person owning or controlling a kennel or place where are kept four or more dogs for breeding, training, sale or other commercial purposes, shall pay an annual license fee of thirty dollars for such kennel, which shall be the license for all dogs regularly kept therein. Such license fee shall be paid between the first day of July and the thirty-first day of August of each year and shall be a license for such kennel for the period of one year commencing the first day of July.

(Ord. 537 § 2(part), 1986)

No kennel license shall be issued until an animal control officer or the poundmaster shall have first issued a certificate that the same is operated or is to be operated in accordance with the provisions of this chapter. Such certificate shall be presented to the tax collector with an application for such kennel license.

(Ord. 537 § 2(part), 1986)

Whenever a dog is removed from any kennel licensed under the provisions of this chapter, the owner of such dog shall forthwith apply for and obtain an annual license as otherwise required by this chapter.

(Ord. 537 § 2(part), 1986)

The provisions of this chapter requiring the payment of an annual license fee shall not apply to an animal shelter maintained and operated under Title I, Division 2, Part 4 of the Corporations Code of the State.

(Ord. 537 § 2(part), 1986)