Ord 0521- ADOPTING BY REFERENCE AND MODIFYING ORDINANCE NO. NS-403 OF THE COUNTY OF SANTA CLARAORDINANCE NO.
AN ORDINANCE ADOPTING BY REFERENCE AND MODIFYING
ORDINANCE NO. NS-403 OF THE COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA
ENTITLED B° AN ORDINANCE ADDING CHAPTER 3 TO TITLE
4 OF THE SANTA CLARA COUNTY ORDINANCE CODE AND
REPEALING ARTICLES 1 AND 2 OF TITLE 6 OF THIS SAID
CODE AND SECTIONS 3.1.26-12.1 THROUGH. 3.1.26-12.10
OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE CODE OF THE COUNTY OF SANTA
CLARA AND REGULATING THE KEEPING AND LICENSING OF
DOGS AND OTHER ANIMALS" AND PROVIDING FOR PENALTIES
THE TOWN COUNCIL OF TIE TOWN OF LOS GATOS DOES ORDAIN
A S FOLLOWS
3ECTI0N 1:
(a) The Board of Supervisors of the County of Santa Clara
having on March 23, 1959 passed and adopted Ordinance No. NS-433
providing for and regulating the keeping and licensing of dogs
and other animals, which said ordinance has been published and
printed as required by law, and not less than three copies thereof
all certified to be true copies by the Town Clerk of the Town of
Los Gatos having been for at least fifteen days preceding the
public hearing on this ordinance and continuously since, and
are now, and shall be kept on file in the office of the Town Clerk
of the Town of Los Gatos for public inspection thereof; reference
being hereby made to said ordinance for all the regulations,
provisions, conditions, terms and requirements therein shown,
and said regulations, provisions, conditions, terms and require-
ments of said Ordinance No. NS-403 are, and each is, hereby
adopted by reference and made a part hereof the same as if fully
set forth in this ordinance, and are and each is by such reference
adopted as sections of this ordinance; bearing the same numerical.
section designations as appear in said Santa Clara County Ordinance
with exceptions as are hereinafter set forth in Subsection "(b)",
and as such are and each is adopted as and for an Ordinance of
the Town of Los Gatos.
(b)
(1)
therefrom.
Sections 2, 4 and 5 are hereby omitted and deleted
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(2) Thenever the word "County" or "Co." is used in
Sections 4.3.1-7 44.3.1-11; 4.3.2-2; 4.3.2-3; 4.3.2-6; 4.3.2-3.1;
4.3.2-9; 4.3.2-10; 4.3.3-1, 4.3.3-4; 4.3.3-5, it shall be deemed
to include the words "Tovtn of Los Gatos".
3ECTION 2:
The word °tperson" as used in this ordinance includes
any individuals, firm, association,.organization, partnership,
company and corporation,, whether acting as principal agent
_-..gr-officer, servant or employee for himself, itself or for
any other person.
SECTION 3
The words "Director" and "Director of Public Health" as
used in this ordinance is the duly appointed Director of Public
Health of the County of Santa Clara.
SECTION 4:
The words "Rabies Control Operator" as used in this
ordinance shall mean the duly appointed Rabies Control Operator
of the County of Santa Clara, his assistants or deputies.
SECTION 5:
It shall; be unlawful for'any person owning, having an interest
in, harboring, or having charge, care, control, custody, or possession
of any dog to cause or permit such dog to he in or upon any public
street, alley, or other public place, or in or upon any unenclosed
lot or premises, unless such dog be securely confined by a strong
leash, securely and continuously held by the person owning, having
an interest in, harboring, or having charge, care, control, custody,
or possession of such dog, or unless such dog be confined within an
automobile.
SECTION E:,:
No person owning, or having care, charge, custody or control
of any dog shall cause, permit or allow the same to go to, nor shall
it be taken to, or into a place where food is handled, prepared,
served or sold, nor in any pudic or private school building or
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school ground in the incorporated area of the Town of Los Gatos.
SECTION 7
It shall be unlawful for any person to have, maintain or
harbor within the Town of Los Gatos more than two dogs. I1:- both
of said dogs be females, then one of said dogs shall be rendered
neuter.
SECTION 61':
The Town Council shall have the power to establish rules
and regulations by resolution consistent with the provisions
o: this ordinance, and to enter into written contracts with the
County of Santa Clara for the purpose of enforcement and administra-
tion of this ordinance.
SECTION 9:
Any person, firm or corporation, or otherwise, violating
or causing the violation of any of the provisions of this ordinance
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall
be punishable by a fine of not more than Five Hundred Dollars
($500.00) or by imprisonment in the County jail of the County of
Santa Clara for a term not exceeding six (f) months, or by both
such fine and imprisonment. Such person, f-r_rm or corporation shall
be deemed guilty of a separate offense for each and every day during
any portion of which any violation of this ordinance is committed,
continued or permitted by such person, firm or corporation, and shall
be punishable as herein provided.
SECTION 10
It is the intention of the Town Council of the Town of
Los Gatos that each separate provision of this Ordinance shall be
deemed independent of all other provisions herein, and it is further
the intention of the Town Council of the Toren of Los Gatos that if
any provision of this Ordinance be declared invalid, all other
provisions thereof shall remain valid and enforceable.
SECTION 11:
This Guy~din,.ance is herelf-Dy declared to ~ an urgency
measure and shall take effect i_mmedi_atel-V and t'ee following
_i_s a declaration of =~C:> constituting the urgency.
The Department of Health of the State of California
has declared the County of Santa Clara, agate o-F- Cali_forn i a
to be a rabies endemic area; the County of an't.a Clara is
better equipped t.o control dogs and stray animals within the
Tc;TiTn of Los Gatos and to make proper provisions for diseased.,
vicious or dead animals, than the Town of Los Gatos, and the
County of Santa Clara lha agreed to perform this service for
and on behalf of the ToT,7n of Los Gatos; that legislation is
immediately required, and this ordinance is therefore passed
for the immediate preservation of the public health and safety.
T'he above and foregoing Ordinance was duly and regularly
introduced at a regular meeting of the Town Council of the
Town of Los Gatos held on the l6th day of 'November 1959, and
thereafter at a regular meeting held on the 23rd day of November
1959, duly and regularly passed and adopted by the following vot
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NOES: COtTNCILIvC, N
ABSENT: CGJd'NCIUro]N ~
ATTEST:
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