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HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD 433 2015 0520 ORDINANCE NO. 433 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF MOORPARK, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING SECTION 6.16.030, LICENSING PERIOD OF CHAPTER 6.16, LICENSING OF DOGS AND CATS OF TITLE 6, ANIMAL REGULATIONS OF THE MOORPARK MUNICIPAL CODE WHEREAS, in 1983, the City Council adopted Moorpark Municipal Code Title 6 Animal Regulations; and WHEREAS, state law proscribes that the term of an animal license may not extend beyond the term of the animal's rabies vaccination; and WHEREAS, the term of a rabies vaccination may be as long as three years; and WHEREAS, the term of a City of Moorpark animal license is no longer than two (2) years; and WHEREAS, it is a priority of the City Council to provide convenient and cost effective service to the public whenever possible; and WHEREAS, the City Council wishes to update its Animal Regulations Ordinance to permit closer coordination of the term for a rabies vaccination and a City animal license. NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF MOORPARK DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. Section 6.16.030 License Period, of the Moorpark Municipal Code is hereby amended in its entirety to read as shown: "6.16.030 Licensing period. A. The period of time any license issued pursuant to this chapter is valid must be specified on the license application. B. The license period specified may be whatever period the city council may adopt by Resolution for that particular license application, provided that the period does not extend beyond the expiration date of the applicable rabies vaccination. A license and corresponding license tag cease to be current when the applicable license period expires." Ordinance No. 433 Page 2 SECTION 2. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase, part or portion of this Ordinance is for any reason held to be invalid or unconstitutional by any court of competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this Ordinance. The City Council declares that it would have adopted this Ordinance and each section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase, part or portion thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more section, subsections, sentences, clauses, phrases, parts or portions be declared invalid or unconstitutional. SECTION 3. This Ordinance shall become effective 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 publish notice of adoption in the manner required by law. PASSED AND ADOPTED this 20th day of May, 2015. 4. - /),,Q4,,_prt., ce S. Parvin, Mayor ATTEST: 4.11 ` )(124(-40--- k— 'MaureeCityCl ;. .-14„.„07,10. Ordinance No. 433 Page 3 STATE OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF VENTURA ) ss. CITY OF MOORPARK I, Maureen Benson, City Clerk of the City of Moorpark, California, do hereby certify under penalty of perjury that the foregoing Ordinance No. 433 was adopted by the City Council of the City of Moorpark at a regular meeting held on the 20th day of May, 2015, and that the same was adopted by the following vote: AYES: Councilmembers Mikos, Millhouse, Pollock, Van Dam, and Mayor Parvin NOES: None ABSENT: None ABSTAIN: None WITNESS my hand and the official seal of said City this 20th day of May, 2015. Maureen Benson, City Clerk Aar . w,moi: