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AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND ORDINANCE NO. 1633, THE SAME BEING AN ORDINANCE PRESCRIBING CERTAIN RULES AND REGULATIONS WITH RESPECT TO CARE AND KEEPING OF ANIMALS WITHIN THE CITY OF JONESBORO; AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.
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BE IT ORDAINED by the City Council of the City of Jonesboro, Arkansas that Ordinance 1633, Section 1, be amended as follows:
SECTION 1: Section 1 of No. 1633 are amended as follows: any person owing, possessing or keeping an animal which has been allowed to run at large and which has been impounded may retrieve such animal from the City Pound by payment of a fee of thirty-five dollars (35.00) which fee shall be assessed for the purpose of vaccination of impounded animal prior to their retrieval and reclamation by owners. The cost of reclamation shall increase to fifty dollars ($50.00) for the second (2nd) offense, and upon the third (3rd) offense the penalty shall be one hundred dollars ($100.00) and the Animal Control Officer shall issue a citation to Jonesboro Municipal Court. The reclamation of two or more animals by the same owner or household shall constitute separate charges.
SECTION 2: All ordinances and or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are hereby repealed to the extent of such conflict.
SECTION 3: It is found and declared by the City Council of the City of Jonesboro that the increased operational expenses of the Animal Control Office of the City of Jonesboro requires an immediate increase in the assessed vaccination fee to offset the cost of vaccinating impounded animals. Therefore, an emergency is declared to exist and this ordinance being necessary for the protection of the public peace, health, and safety shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage and approval.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 6th day of June, 1988.