HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD 099 1988 0817ORDINANCE NO. 99
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF MOORPARK, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING
THE MOORPARK MUNICIPAL CODE BY ADDING
CHAPTER 10.02 RELATIVE TO ANIMAL CONTROL
WHEREAS, pursuant to the police power, the City of
Moorpark may adopt ordinances for the public health, safety
or welfare.
NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
MOORPARK DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. The Moorpark Municipal Code is hereby
amended by adding Chapter 10.02 to read as follows:
"Chapter 10.02
Animal Control
Section 10.02.02 Dog Defecation
A. It shall be unlawful for the
owner or person having custody of any dog
to suffer, permit or allow such dog to
defecate on any private property in the
city without the consent of the owner or
person in lawful possession of the
property or on any public property in the
city.
B. It shall be unlawful for the
owner or person having custody of any dog
that defecates on any private property in
the city without the consent of the owner
or person in lawful possession of the
property or on any public property in the
city to fail to immediately remove the
feces by placing it in a closed container
or to thereafter fail to deposit the
feces in a trash receptacle.
C. Every person who violates any
provision of this section is guilty of an
infraction, punishable in accordance with
subsection (b) of Section 1.01.220 of
this code. The provisions of this
section shall not apply to a legally
blind person who is accompanied by a
seeing eye dog which has been trained by
a person licensed under section 7200 et
seq. of the Business and Professions
Code, and on -duty City police dogs.
SECTION 2. CONSTITUTIONALITY. If any part of this
Ordinance is held invalid or unconstitutional for any
reason, such shall not affect the validity or
constitutionality of the remaining portion of this
Ordinance. The Moorpark City Council declares that each
part of this Ordinance would have been adopted irrespective
of the fact that a part thereof may be declared invalid or
unconstitutional.
SECTION 3. This Ordinance shall take effect thirty
(30) days after its passage and adoption.
SECTION 4. The City Clerk shall certify to the
passage and adoption of this Ordinance; shall enter the same
in the book of original ordinances of said City; shall make
a minute of the passage and adoption thereof in the records
of the proceedings of the City Council at which the same is
passed and adopted; and shall cause the same to be published
once in the Moorpark News, a weekly newspaper of general
circulation, as defined in Section 6008 of the Government
Code, for the City of Moorpark, and which is hereby
designated for that purpose.
APPROVED AND ADOPTED this 17th day
of August 1988.
a or of the City of M orpark, CalifornLa
ATTEST:
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF VENTURA ) SS.
CITY OF MOORPARK )
I, Maureen W. Wall, City Clerk of the City of Moorpark, California, do
hereby certify under penalty of perjury, that the foregoing Ordinance No.
99 was regularly introduced and approved for first reading at a
meeting of the City Council on the 3rd day of August , 1988,
by the following vote, to wit:
AYES: Councilmembers Brown, Galloway, Harper, Perez and Mayor Lane.
NOES: None.
ABSTAIN: None.
ABSENT: None.
and, that said ordinance was duly approved for second reading and adopted at
a meeting of the City Council on the 17th day of August 1988,
by the following vote, to wit:
AYES: Councilmembers Brown, Galloway, Harper, Perez and Mayor Lane.
NOES: None.
ABSTAIN: None.
ABSENT: None.
WITNESS my hand and the official seal of said City this 19th day of
August , 1988.