HomeMy WebLinkAboutNS-1183ORDINANCE NO. NS-1183
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF SANTA ANA AMENDING SECTION 5-7
OF THE SANTA ANA MUNICIPAL CODE.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA DOES ORDAIN
AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1: That Section 5-7 of the Santa Ana Municipal
Code is hereby amended to read as follows:
Sec. 5-7. Wild Animals; prohibited in city; exceptions.
It shall be unlawful for any person to keep or maintain,
or cause to be kept or maintained, within the city any wild
animal, except that the following wild animals may be kept
or maintained: canaries, parakeets, chinchillas, chipmunks,
cockateels, finches, gopher snakes, guina pigs, hamsters,
king snakes, marmoset monkeys, parrots, and like birds,
squirrel monkeys, turtles, tropical fish (except caribee),
white mice, and white rats. Said excepted animals are found
not to be present threats to human life or health.
The provisions of this section shall not prohibit the
keeping or maintaining of the following wild animals within
the city:
(1)
Wild animals in zoos or museums. Any wild animals
which are kept confined in zoos, museums, or any
other place where they are kept as live specimens
for the public to view.
(2)
Wild animals in circuses, carnivals, exhibits or
shows. Any wild animals which are kept confined
and placed on exhibit in a circus, carnival, or
any other type of exhibit or show.
(3) Wild animals in bona fide, licensed veterinary
hospitals for treatment.
SECTION~2: The Clerk of the Council shall certify to
the passage of this ordinance and cause the same to be pub-
lished in some daily newspaper printed and published in the
City of Santa Ana.
SECTION 3: This Ordinance shall take effect thirty
days from and after the date of its adoption.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the City Council of
Santa Ana at its regular meeting held on the
August , 1973.
the City of
20 day of
ATTEST:
CLERK OF THE coUNCIL
ORDINANCE NO. NS-1183
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) ss
CITY OF SANTA ANA )
I, FLORENCE I. MALONE, do hereby certify that I am
the Clerk of the Council of the City of Santa Ana; that
the foregoing Ordinance was introduced to said Council at
its regular meeting held on the 6 day of
August , 1973 and was again considered by
said Council at its meeting held on the 20 day of
August , 1973, and was at said meeting passed and
adopted by the following vote, to wit:
AYES,
NOES,
COUNCILMEN: Evans~ ~4arkel~ Garthe~ Griset~
l~atterson~ Ward~ Yarnarnoto
COUNCILMEN: None
ABSENT, COUNCILMEN: None
CLERK OF THE COUNCIL
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
A. WITHERS, CITY ATTORNEY