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ORDINANCE No. 1633
� AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF CHULFI VISTA AP�idDING
SECTIOPi 6 . 24 .050 OF THE CHULA VISTA CIlY CODE
R�LATING TO VICIOUS DOGS APID PROCEDURES FOR
QUARANTINE AND DESTRUCTZON
The City Council of the City of Chula Vista does ordain
as follows :
SECTION I : That Section 6 . 24 .050 of the Chula Vista City
Code be, and the same is hereby amended to read as follows: '
�• Sec . 6. 24 . 050 . Vicious Dogs and Procedures for
• Quarantine and Destruction.
The possession of a vicious anir.lal is unla�aful unless
it is restrained, confined, or muzzled so that it cannot
bite or attack any person or animal . Anir,ials held in
violation of this section shall be deemed a public nui-
sance, and their continued possession or ownership shall
• be unlawful .
For purposes of this section, an animal shall be
deemed vicious if it either clearly demonstrates by its
behavior, a propensity to attack or bite a person or
animal , or if it has bitten any person or animal . In the �
event that such a dog does bite any person or animal,
the quarantine provisions of Section 6 . 28 .060 shall be
applicable.
Further, it shall be unlawful for any person having
custody or control of a dog to allow or permit said dog
to bite any person or animal on property other than that
owned or demised by said person.
Any person who has been assaulted or attacked by any
dog within the limits of the city without provocation
from the person so assaulted or attacked, may make an
affidavit of such fact and file the same with the Chief
of Police, and it shall thereupon be the duty of the
Chief of Police inmediately to give notice in writing of
the filing of such affidavit to the owner or keeper of
such dog. After satisfying the requirements of the
quarantine provisions of Section 6 . 28 ,060, such owner
or keeper shall keep such dog securely confined to his
premises by line or chain, and if such owner or .keeper
shall neglect so to confine such dog, he shall be guilty
of a violation of this chapter and the Chief of Police
may have such dog killed at any time thereafter if it
is found running at large in the city and not in the
immediate care of 'its owner or keeper, or led by a chain,
line or leash.
SECTION II : This ordinance shall take effect and be in
full force and effect on the thirty-first day from and after its
adoption.
P� esented by Approved as to form by
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Wil iam J. •7lnters, C ie o George �B; Lindberg, City Aft02%C12
Police y
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ADOPTED AND APPROVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
CHULA VISTA, CALIFORNIA, this 5th day of AuguSt ,
� 197r�, by the following vote, to-wit:
AYES: Councilmen Eqddhl . Scott, Hdmilton Hyde
NAYES: Councilmen NOne
ABSENT: CounciZmen Hobel
, '��OiLEDQ� ./��Zlt.t.cl!�ni_ �Yt
Mayor of the Ciiy of Chu ilista
ATTEST
Ci�y Clerk
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF SAN DIEGO ) ss.
CZTY OF CHULA VISTA )
� I, JEIdNIE M. FULASZ, City Clerk of the City of Chula Vista,
CaZifornia, DO HEREBY CERTIFY that the above and foregoing is a full,
true and correci ecpy of and
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that the same has not been amended or repealed.
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