(a)   Every owner of any dog over six month of age shall annually register with the city clerk his or her name and address with the name, sex and description of each dog owned and kept within the city. It shall be unlawful for the owner of any such dog to fail to maintain current registration of such dog.

(b)   Upon registration, the owner shall present a current, completed certificate of immunization against rabies. No registration shall follow without evidence of this document, and it shall be unlawful for the owner of any dog described in (a) above to fail to maintain effective rabies immunization of such dog.

(c)   The owner or harborer of any dog shall, at the time of applying for a registration, present to the city clerk a certificate from an accredited veterinarian showing that a male dog has been neutered or a female dog has been spayed, if the dog has been neutered or spayed.

(d)   The city clerk shall collect an annual registration fee of $3.00 for each unspayed female dog, $2.00 for each unneutered male dog, and $1.00 for each neutered or spayed dog.

(e)   The registration year shall be from January 1st through December 31st of each year. The fee shall be payable before April 1st without penalty.

(f)    Registration fees as enumerated herein above may be prorated for newly acquired dogs or for dogs owned by a person or persons moving to and establishing a home in the city during a calendar year.

(g)   Every owner or harborer of a dog or dogs who fail to register the same prior to the 1st day of April of each year shall pay in addition to the registration fee hereinabove provided a penalty fee for late registration of twice the regular fee.

(Code 2005, 3-200s; Code 2020)

It shall be the duty of the city clerk or designated agent, upon receipt of the registration fee hereinabove required, to keep in a book suitable for the registration of dogs, at the time of registration, the name of the owner or keeper, the number of the registration and the amount paid therefore, and shall deliver to the owner or keeper of the dog a certificate in writing, stating that the person has registered the dog and the number by which the dog is registered, and shall also deliver to the owner or keeper of the dog a tag with the registration number and the registration year thereon, which shall by the owner or keeper, attached to the collar to be used on the dog so registered. When it shall be made to appear to the city clerk that any tag has become lost, he or she shall, upon presentation of the certificate, issue a duplicate of such tag. It shall be unlawful for any person to take off or remove the city registration tag from any dog belonging to another, or remove the strap or collar on which the same is fastened.

(Code 2005, 3-200s; Code 2020)

The provisions of this article with respect to registration shall not apply to any dog owned by any person visiting or temporarily remaining within the city for less than 30 days. However, such dogs shall be kept under restraint by the owner thereof at all times.

(Code 2005, 3-200s; Code 2020)

(a)   It shall be unlawful for the owner or harborer of any dog to permit such dog to run at large within the city at any time.

(b)   Any dog running at large within the city shall be impounded as set out in section 2-205.

(c)   The owner of any dog impounded for running at large without the tag required in section 2-202 shall be subject to fines to be determined under section 1-117 of this code.

(d)   For the first offense of an animal running at large with a tag as required by section 2-202, the owner or harborer claiming any animal, shall, in addition to presenting a registration receipt, pay the cost of the board bill. With subsequent offenses the owner shall be subject to fines to be determined under section 1-117 of this code.

(Code 2005, 3-200s; Code 2020)

Any dog found in violation of the provisions of this article shall be subject to impoundment by the city. A record of all dogs impounded shall be kept by the city containing the following information: color, sex, weight, height, identifying marks, registration number (if any) and the date of impoundment.

(a)   If the dog impounded has a current registration tag attached to its collar, the owner of such dog, as shown by the records of the city clerk, shall be notified in writing as soon as possible. If, at the end of five days the city clerk has been unable to locate the owner, or the owner, upon having been located, refuses to claim or redeem said dog, then the dog may be sold, euthanized or otherwise disposed.

(b)   If the dog impounded has no current registration tag, it shall be kept for 72 hours. If within that time the owner does not appear to claim the dog it may be sold, euthanized or otherwise disposed.

(c)   If within the impounding period, the owner of an impounded dog does appear and redeem the dog, it shall be turned over to the person claiming it upon the payment of the actual costs of impoundment, and upon compliance with the registration provisions of this article.

(d)   Any dog impounded may not be released without a current rabies vaccination.

(e)   Impoundment hereunder shall not preclude any court from imposing and executing any fine, which might otherwise be levied under this article for violation of any of the provisions thereof; nor shall impoundment be defense in any prosecution commended hereunder.

(Code 2005, 3-200s; Code 2020)

(a)   No person or household shall own or harbor more than four dogs of six months of age or older or more than one litter of pups, or more than four cats of more than six months of age or more than one litter of kittens, or more that a total of four dogs and cars more than six months of age in any combination, or engage in the commercial business of breeding, buying, selling, trading, training, or boarding cats or dogs or both cats and dogs, without having obtained a kennel license from the city clerk.

(b)   Kennel licenses must be reviewed annually. No kennel license shall be issued until an inspection certificate has been issued by the animal control officer certifying approval of the kennel and compliance with the applicable laws of the city and the State of Kansas, and a certificate issued by the zoning administrator stating that the applicant for the kennel license is not violating zoning laws of the city. If the city clerk has not received any protest against the kennel, the city clerk may issue a renewal of an existing kennel license at the same location without any report from the animal control officer or the zoning administrator. If the city clerk receives a complaint about the kennel, the animal control officer and the zoning administrator shall inspect the kennel. If the officers find that the holder of the kennel license is violating any laws of the city or State of Kansas, or is maintaining the facility in a manner detrimental to the health, safety, or piece of mind of any person residing in the immediate vicinity, he or she shall report such fact to the city clerk, and the license shall not be renewed, except after a public hearing before the city council.

(c)   The animal control officer, the zoning administrator, or any law enforcement officer shall have the right to inspect any premises licensed under this section at any time and nothing shall prevent the entry onto private property for the purpose of inspection. The application for a kennel shall consent to such entry and inspection.

(d)   The city council may suspend or revoke a kennel license if, pursuant to a public hearing, it finds any of the following:

(1)   The kennel is maintained in violation of any applicable law of the State of Kansas, or the city.

(2)   The kennel is maintained so as to be a public nuisance.

(3)   The kennel s maintained so as to be detrimental to health, safety or piece of mind of persons residing in the immediate vicinity.

(e)   The annual kennel license fee shall be $100.00. Payment of such license fee is in addition to, and not in lieu of, the dog registration fees otherwise required in this article.

(f)    This section shall not apply to and will not be construed to require a kennel license for a licensed veterinarian to operate an animal hospital.

(Code 2005, 3-200s; Code 2020)

Any unspayed female dog in the stage of estrus (heat) shall be confined during such period of time in a house, building or secure enclosure, and the area of enclosure shall be so constructed that no other dog or dogs may gain voluntary access to the confined animal except for the purposes of planned breeding. Any animal that is in the stage of estrus (heat) and that is not properly confined, or any such animal that is creating a neighborhood nuisance, shall be removed to a boarding kennel, to a veterinary hospital or to the animal shelter. The owner shall pay all expenses incurred as a result of the confinement. The owner of animals removed to the animal shelter shall be charged at the rate established by the animal shelter for routine confinement. Failure to comply with the order of the animal control officer shall be a violation of this article, and the animal will then be impounded.

(Code 2005, 3-200s; Code 2020)