Ordinance 243-73 - Laserfiche WebLink

• • ORDINANCE NO.(5,24q —72 AN ORDINANCE requiring registration and restricting 1 the keeping, harboring or maintaining domestic animals and amending E .C.C. 10.24.011 2 (Ordinance No. 4027, subsection 3) . " 3 4 NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY OF EVERETT DOES ORDAIN: 5 Section 1: Everett City Code 10.24.011 (Ordinance No. 4027, 6 subsection 3) shall be amended to read hereafter as follows: 7 "10.24.011 Restriction on keeping, harboring or maintain- 8 ing domestic animals - - Exception. 9 All persons, except the City of Everett, harboring, maintain- ing or possessing any horses, cows, goats, pigs, sheep or 10 similar domestic animal or animals within the City of Everett shall register said animal or animals so maintained within 11 the city limits with the poundmaster of the City of Everett 12 within five days after acquisition. It shall be unlawful for any person to keep, harbor or maintain any of the aforesaid 13 animals for which such person does not own, hold or have in his possession a current registration certificate issued by 14 the poundmaster of the City of Everett herein provided. 15 A registration fee of ten dollars per head of livestock shall be paid to the poundmaster at the time of registration. Except 16 that the secretary or other appointed officer of any bona fide 17 riding club, 4H group or similar organization may register the animal or animals under the name of the specific organization 18 by paying a registration fee of five dollars per head of livestock and furnishing all information, hereinafter stated or deemed 19 necessary to the poundmaster of the City of Everett. 20 Upon registration, the poundmaster shall issue a registration 21 certificate containing a description of the animal, its location, the type of shelter and the name of its owner, provided the 22 owner has under his control suitable stables or shelter which at the time of its construction or commencement of use is 23 located not closer than fifty feet from any inhabitable residence, apartment house or hotel owned or occupied 24 by some person or persons other than the one maintaining 25 - such stable or shelter of said owner, unless otherwise provided for in the ordinances of the City of Everett, 26 together with a minimum land area devoted to the pasturing and/or sheltering of said animals, of twenty-two 27 thousand square feet per head of livestock. The young or issue of such animal may be kept for a period of six months 28 without registration or without providing additional land 29 area. 'Animal' as used in this section, means a horse, cow, goat, pig or sheep or other similar domestic animal. 30 Any stable or shelter which does not conform to this Ordinance 31 may not be: (1) re-established after discontinuance for one year; (2) extended except in conformity to this Ordinance; 32