HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrd. No. 1971-489ORDINANCE N0. 489
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF ELSINORE, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING
SECTION VIII OF ORDINANCE NUMBER 396 PERTAINING TO THE
ESTABLISHMENT OF A CITY POUND AND PROSCRIBING THE POLdERS
AND. DUTIES OF POUND MASTER OF SAID CITY.
THE MAYOR APSD CITY COUNCIL OF fiHE CITY OF ELSINORE DO ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1; Section VIII of Ordinance Number 396 is hereby amended to read as
follows:
"Section VIII: City Pound; the appointment of a_City Pound Master and
proscribing his rights and duties.
"(a) The City shall, at its own expense, maintain a City Pound. The
maintenance of the City Pound shall be a legal charge against the City,
and the City Council shall appropriate necessary funds to maintain said
City Pound.
"(b) The Pound Master shall have the duty to enforce the provisions of
Ordinance Number 396 and any amendments thereto.. In order to carry out
the enforcement of the provisions of said ordinance, the City Pound
Plaster is hereby empowered with police powers to carry out the enforce-
ment of said ordinance and is given the authority> among others to issue
citations to persons in violation of said ordinance. Said citations shall
require said person or persons charged"orith violation of said ordinance
to appear in a court of competent jurisdiction, and in the event that
said person or persons fail to respond to said citation, the Pound PRaster
shall be empowered to sign complaints against said person or persons
charged with a violation of said ordinance. The City Council:shall set
the rate of compensation for. said Pound Master and shall do such other things
that may be necessary for the enforcement of said ordinance.
"(c) The City Pound P9aster shall be under the direction and control
of the Director of Publio Works, or, if there be established an office
of City PBanager, then the Pound Master shall be under the direction
and control of said City Manager."
SECTION 2: This ordinance-shall take effect immediately upon its adoption
being. necessary and urgently required for the immediate preservation of the
public peace, health and safety of the City of Elsinore, California:
SECTION 3: The City. Clerk is hereby ordered and directed to certify to the
passage of this ordinance:and to cause the same to be published in accordance
with the law.
ADOPTED by the City Council and signed by the Mayor and attested to by the
City Clerk this 25th day of January, 1971,
s~ Norman L. Chaffin
Mayor of the City of Elsinore
ATTEST:
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s~ Florene Marshall
City Clerk of the City.. of Elsinore.