(a)   The owner of a cat over four months of age shall register with the city clerk his or her name and address with the name, sex, and description of each cat owned and kept within the city.

(b)   The owner of any cat four months of age or older shall present a current, completed certificate of immunization against rabies. Registration shall be void without evidence of this document, and it shall be unlawful for the owner of any cat described in (a) above to fail to maintain effective rabies immunization of such cat.

(c)   The city clerk shall collect an annual registration fee of $2 for each cat.

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

(e)   Every owner/keeper of a cat who fails to register the cat prior to the 1st day of March of each year shall pay, in addition to the registration fee hereinabove provided, a penalty fee for late registration of $10. There shall be a registration grace period of 30 days given to new residents and newly acquired cats.

(Code 2003; Ord. 853; Ord. 866; Code 2018)

It shall be the duty of the city clerk or designated agent, upon a showing of current rabies immunization and receipt of the registration fee hereinbefore required, to keep in a book suitable for the registration of cats, 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 cat a certificate in writing, stating that the person has registered the cat and the number by which the cat is registered, and shall also deliver to the owner or keeper of the cat a tag with the registration number and the registration year thereon, which shall be, by the owner or keeper, attached to the collar to be used on the cat so registered. When it shall be made to appear to the city clerk that tag has become lost, he or she shall, upon presentation of the certificate, issue a duplicate of such tag upon the payment of a $1 fee. It shall be unlawful for any person to take off or remove the city registration tag from any cat belonging to another, or remove the strap or collar on which the same is fastened.

(Code 2003)

It shall be unlawful for any person to place on any cat a tag issued for any other cat, or to make or use any false, forged or counterfeited tag or imitation thereof.

(Code 2003)

(a)   Abandoned cats located within the city limits are declared a nuisance and menace to the public health, which is to be abated by the animal control officer.

(b)   A cat that has reverted to a feral state or has no identification tags and is not identifiable as to owner is presumed to be an abandoned cat. Such cat may be confined by a person on whose property such cat strays for pick-up by the animal control officer, or be trapped by the animal control officer.

(c)   The animal control officer may utilize humane-type cage traps to apprehend any abandoned cat with such humane trap being placed by the animal control officer on public property or private property with the written consent of the owner.

(d)   The animal control officer shall transport cats that have been trapped or confined as herein specified to the animal shelter with such cat being impounded as provided by K.S.A. 47-1701 et seq., as amended, unless sooner redeemed by an owner upon payment of an impounding charge. Identification information, if available on a trapped cat, shall be utilized by the animal control officer to inform such owner that his or her cat has been impounded.

(Code 2003)

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

(Ord. 853; Code 2018)

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

(Ord. 853; Code 2018)

(a)   No person or household shall own or harbor more than six (6) cats of six (6) months of age or older or engage in the commercial business of breeding, buying selling, trading, training, or boarding cats without having obtained a kennel license from the city clerk.

(b)   Kennel licenses must be renewed 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 by the zoning code enforcement officer has been issued certifying 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 and zoning code enforcement officer. If the animal control officer or the zoning code enforcement officer finds that the holder of any kennel license is violating any zoning law, or any other law of the State of Kansas, or of the city, or is maintaining the facility in a manner detrimental to the health, safety or peace 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 governing body.

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

(d)   The governing body 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 of the city.

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

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

(e)   The annual kennel license fee shall be $25. Payment of such license fee is in addition to, and not in lieu of, the cat license fees otherwise required under 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.

(g)   In addition to any fine allowed by Section 1-116 for a conviction of section 2-307(a), the municipal judge shall order the relinquishment of ownership to the city and impoundment of all cats in excess of the number allowed by section 2-307(a), subject to disposition as deemed appropriate by the city.

(Ord. 853; Ord. 866; Code 2018)

Any unspayed female cat 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 cat or cats may gain voluntary access to the confined animal except for purposes of planned breeding. Any animal that is in the state of estrus (heat) and that is not properly confined, or any such animal that is creating a neighborhood nuisances, shall be removed to a boarding kennel, to a veterinary hospital or to the animal shelter. All expenses incurred as a result of the confinement shall be paid by the owner. The owner of animals removed to the animal shelter shall be charged the rate established from time to time by the animal shelter for routine confinement.

(Ord. 853; Code 2018)