Ord 1420 - URGENCY ORDINANCE OF THE TOWN OF LOS GATOS CHANGING THE MANNER OF SETTING ANIMAL LICENSING AND CONTROL FEES.

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r ORDINANCE NO.1420 URGENCY ORDINANCE OF THE TOWN OF LOS GATOS CHANGING THE MANNER OF SETTING ANIMAL LICENSING AND CONTROL FEES. THE TOWN COUNCIL OF THE TOWN OF LOS GATOS does ordain as follows: SECTION 1. The portion of section 5 -2 of the Town Code concerning section B4 -41 of the County of Santa Clara Ordinance Code is repealed. SECTION 2. Section 5 -2 of the Town Code is amended by adding: Whenever Division B4 of the County of Santa Clara Ordinance Code provides that the Board of Supervisors sets fees by resolution, as to such matters in the Town, the Town Council sets the fees, also by resolution. SECTION 3. This is an urgency ordinance. It takes effect immediately on adoption. The facts justifying its adoption as an urgency ordinance are: (1) Practically all safety- and health - related functions of animal control are performed for the Town by the County of Santa Clara, (2) The County's animal control activities are funded principally by license and similar fees, (3) the County's system for collecting and accounting for the fees necessitates that the fees be uniform in the unincorporated and incorporated areas, (4) if the fees are not uniform it will be impractical or unreasonably expensive to collect them, and (5) the County may have to reduce or withdraw its essential animal control services. SECTION 4. The Town Clerk of the Town of Los Gatos shall cause this ordinance to be published once within 15 days after its adoption in a