HomeMy WebLinkAboutNS-1987 - Adding Section 31-2.2e and Section 31-2.2f to the Santa Ana Municipal Code Pertaining to Dogs on Park PropertyORDINANCE NO. NS-1987
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AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA ADDING
SECTION 31-2.2(e) AND SECTION 31-2.2(f) TO THE
SANTA ANA MUNICIPAL CODE PERTAINING TO DOGS ON
PARK PROPERTY
The City Council of the City of Santa Ana does or-
dain as follows:
SECTION 1: The Santa Ana Municipal Code is hereby
amended to read as follows:
"Sec. 31-2.2. Animals and pets.
"(a) No person in a park shall ride a horse,
mule, donkey, pony or bovine animal except on
designated paths or trails.
"(b) No person shall abandon or bring into
any park, except on leash, any animal, reptile
or fowl of any kind. This prohibition shall not
apply to seeing eye dogs used by a visually handi-
capped person, provided that the dog is at all
times kept under control.
"(c) No person shall willfully frighten,
molest, injure, chase, capture or annoy any
animal or bird in any park or zoo. No person
shall throw or propel anything of any kind
into any animal area at a zoo.
"(d) No person shall feed or offer food
to any mammal, reptile or fowl in a zoo, unless
such food is an approved type obtained from a
dispenser within such zoo for that purpose.
"(e). No person owning or having charge, cus-
tody or control of any dog in a park shall either
knowingly or through failure to exercise due care
and control, permit such animal to defecate and
allow such droppings to thereafter remain. A per-
son shall not be considered in violation of this
section if the person has the necessary equipment,
i.e., shovel, bag, etc., readily available and takes
immediate action to remove such droppings."
SECTION 2: If any section, subsection, sentence,
clause, phrase or portion of this ordinance is for any reason
held to be invalid or unconstitutional by the decision of any
court of competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect
the validity of the remaining portions of this ordinance. The
City Council of the City of Santa Ana hereby declares that it
would have adopted this ordinance and each section, subsection,
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sentence, clause, phrase or portion thereof irrespective of the
fact that any one or more sections, subsections, sentences,
clauses, phrases, or portions be declared invalid or unconstitu-
tional.
SECTION 3: Neither the adoption of this Ordinance nor
the repeal~ hereby of any ordinance shall in any manner affect the
prosecution for violation of ordinances, which violations were
committed prior to the effective date hereof, nor be construed to
the collection of any such license or penalty or the penal provi-
sion applicable to any cash deposit in lieu thereof, required to
be posted, filed or deposited pursuant to any ordinance and all
rights and obligations thereunder appertaining shall continue in
full force and effect.
ADOPTED this ]9th day of December , 1988.
ATTEST:
~erCE C. GUY /
k of the Council'
COUNCILMEMBERS:
Young A.ye
McGuigan A~e
Acosta A,¥e
Griset Aye
May Aye
Pulido Aye
~L~H.~, Mayor
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
City Att~y