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Home My WebLink About10457 ORD - 09/08/1971i BT:JKH:9 -8 -71 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE CORPUS CHRISTI CITY CODE, 1958, AS AMENDED, BY REPEALING SECTIONS 5 -5, 5 -6 AND 5-7; ADOPTING A NEW SECTION 5 -5 TO PROVIDE FOR THE ISSUANCE OF PERMITS TO KEEP CERTAIN WILD ANIMALS AND BIRDS, TO PROVIDE FOR EXHIBITION OF WILD ANIMALS BY CIRCUSES, ZOOS AND EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS; ADOPTING A NEW SECTION 5 -6 TO PROVIDE THAT NO PERMIT SHALL BE ISSUED FOR ANY ANIMAL THAT CAN CARRY RABIES OR POLIOMYELITIS UNLESS QUARANTINED FOR AT LEAST NINETY (90) DAYS AND PROOF OF RABIES AND POLIOMYELITIS VACCINATION AND QUARANT NE IS PRESENTED; ADOPTING A NEW SECTION 5 -7 TO `�ROVID? OR A PERMIT FEE; PROVIDING FOR PENALTY; PROVIDIN 'G A E BILITYIC +USE, AND PRO �,�DING FOR PUBLICATION. II � (� 1 � � iii BE IT ORDAINED'lYHE CITY COUN IL OF THE CIT �F °CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS: e SECT IONII� THAT THE COFkUS CHRISTI CI T, C, DE, 1958, AS AMENDED, BE AND THE SAME ISl HEREBY AMENDE BY REPEALING ��'E`�,, IONS 5 -5, 5 -6, AND 5 -7. ;E�T }!ON P. THAT I HORPUS CHRISTI pal TY CODE, 1958, AS AMENDED, BE AND THE�RIAME IS HERE y A�NDED BY'I4�DD A' \NEW SECTION 5 -51 TO HEREAFTER Y.: BREAD �S�fTLLOWS: "$ECTIONae5 -5. IT SHALL BE U 1LAWFUL TO HAVE, KEEP, MAINTAIN OR �HARLR ANY WILD •�MAL WITHII�^THEG1CITY LIMITS EXCEPT THE FOLLOWING AND \UNDER TH I FO� fNG CONDITI �9:�� PROVIDED A PER d HAS BEEN OBTAINED FROM THE HUMANE DEPARTMENT, U(� 'B,Lu, MONKEYS, CHIMPANZEES, SQUIRRELS, CHIPMUNKS, RACCOONS, AND DESCENTED SK �NMAY BE KEPT PRDED SUCH ANIMALS ARE SECURELY CAGED, FENCED, OR �� /Qj \�� / /bbb KEPT BY A ALEASH O StlFFIC1ENT S- NGTH AND DURABILITY TO RESTRAIN SUCH ANIMAL AT ALL TI ES. jj � fb B.I,y�NY WILD ANb /M1�1L MAY BE KEPT FOR EXHIBITION PURPOSES BY CIRCUSES, ZOOS AND ElAtltp "\ONAL.INSTITUTIONS, PROVIDED SUCH ANIMALS ARE 1 SECURELY CAGED, FENCED OR KEPT BY A LEASH OF SUFFICIENT STRENGTH AND DURABILITY TO RESTRAIN SUCH ANIMAL AT ALL TIMES." SECTION 3. THAT THE CORPUS CHRISTI CITY CODE, 1958s AS AMENDED, BE AND THE SAME IS HEREBY AMENDED BY ADDING A NEW SECTION 5 -6, TO HEREAFTER READ AS FOLLOWS: "SECTION 5 -6. NO PERMIT MAY BE ISSUED FOR ANY ANIMAL THAT CAN BE A RABIES OR POLIOMYELITIS CARRIER UNLESS IT HAS BEEN IN QUARANTINE FOR 10457 AT LEAST NINETY (90) DAYS AND UNDER RULES REGULATIONS AND CONDITIONS AS PRESCRIBED BY THE OFFICER IN CHARGE OF THE HUMANE DEPARTMENT. THE PERSON APPLYING FOR THE PERMIT MUST PRESENT A WRITTEW CERTIFICATE OF VACCINATION FROM A LICENSED VETERINARIAN ADMINISTERING THE VACCINE WITHIN THE LAST TWELVE (12) MONTHS AND WRITTEN EVIDENCE OF THE QUARANTINE FOR AT LEAST NINETY (90) DAYS PRIOR TO THE ISSUANCE OF THE PERMIT. THE PERMIT MUST BE RENEWED EVERY TWELVE (12) MONTHS." SECTION 4. THAT THE CORPUS CHRISTI CITY CODES 1958, AS AMENDED, BE AND THE SAME 15 HEREBY AMENDED BY ADDING A NEW SECTION 5 -7, TO HEREAFTER READ AS FOLLOWS: "SECTION 5 -7. THE PERMIT FEE SHALL BE TEN ($10.00) DOLLARS." SECTION 5. ANY PERSON WHO VIOLATES ANY PROVISION OF THE ORDINANCE SHALL BE GUILTY OF A MISDEMEANOR AND SHALL BE FINED AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED TWO HUNDRED ($200.00) DOLLARS. SECTION 6. ALL ORDINANCES OR PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT HEREWITH ARE HEREBY REPEALED AND IN PARTICULARS THERE IS HEREBY REPEALED SUBSECTION (3) OF SECTION 5 -19 OF THE CORPUS CHRISTI CITY CODES 1958. SECTION 7. IF FOR ANY REASON ANY SECTION, PARAGRAPHI SUBDIVISION2 CLAUSES PHRASES OR PROVISION OF THIS ORDINANCE SHALL BE HELD INVALID BY FINAL JUDGMENT OF A COURT OF COMPETENT JURISDICTIONS IT SHALL NOT AFFECT ANY VALID PROVISIONS OF THIS OR ANY OTHER ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI TO WHICH THESE RULES AND REGULATIONS RELATE. SECTION 8. PUBLICATION SHALL BE MADE ONE TIME IN THE OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, BY PUBLISHING THE CAPTION OF THIS ORDINANCES STATING IN SUBSTANCE THE PURPOSE OF THE ORDINANCE. THAT THE FOREGOING ORDINpp�N'CnE WAS READ F R THE FIRST TIME AND PASSED TO ITS SECOND READING ON THIS THE u -(•C� DAY OF '1q BY THE FOLLOWING VOTE: - RONNIE SIZEMORE CHARLES A. . BONNIWELL ROBERTO BOSOUEZ REV. HAROLD T. BRANCH THOMAS V. GONZALES GABE LOZANO, SR. J. HOWARD STARK THAT THE FOREGOING ORDINANCE WAS READ FOR THE SEC TIME AND PASSED TO ITS THIRD READING ON THIS THE DAY OF , i9_, BY THE FOLLOWING VOTE: RONNIE SIZEMORE CHARLES A. BONNIWELL ROBERTO BOSOUEZ REV. HAROLD T. BRANCH THOMAS V. GONZALES GABE LOZANO, SR. J. HOWARD STARK THAT THE FOREGOING ORDINANCE WAS READ FOR THE THIRD TIME AND PASSED FINALLY ON THIS THE DAY OF , 19 , BY THE FOLLOWING VOTE: RONNIE SIZEMORE CHARLES A. BONNIWELL ROBERTO BOSOUEZ REV. HAROLD T. BRANCH THOMAS V. GONZALES GABE LOZANO, SR. J. HOWARD STARK PASSED AND APPROVED, THIS THE DAY OF 19 ATTEST: CITY SECRETARY APPROVED: / DAY OF , 94/_ CITY /ATTORNEY MAYOR THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS