Chapter 8.04
ANIMAL CONTROL1
Sections:
8.04.010 Animal control – County code adopted by reference.
8.04.010 Animal control – County code adopted by reference.
This chapter is intended to authorize the city manager of the city of Solana Beach or his or her designee to perform animal control services within the jurisdictional limits of the city of Solana Beach. Title 6, Division 2, Chapter 6 of the San Diego County Code, relating to animal control, adopted by the county board of supervisors on January 27, 2010, and effective on February 26, 2010, is adopted by reference and incorporated as a part of the municipal code of the city of Solana Beach. Whenever Title 6, Division 2, Chapter 6 of the County Code refers to the unincorporated area of the county, the jurisdictional limits of the city of Solana Beach shall be deemed to be substituted for the county unincorporated area. Whenever that county code chapter authorizes the county department of animal services or any of its employees to perform services in the county, this chapter authorizes the city manager of the city of Solana Beach or his or her designee to perform those services in the city of Solana Beach. (Ord. 486 § 3, 2018; Ord. 416 § 2, 2010)
8.04.020 Penalty.
Whenever any act is prohibited or made or declared to be unlawful, or an offense, or doing of any act is required, or the failure to do any act is declared unlawful or a misdemeanor by the provisions of SBMC 8.04.010 or the laws incorporated therein by reference, the violation of any such provision is a misdemeanor and shall be punishable by a fine not to exceed $1,000 or imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment unless some other fine or penalty is specifically stated in SBMC 8.04.010 or in the laws incorporated therein by reference. However, if the comparable section of the county code charges the violation as an infraction, then the violation shall be charged as an infraction. (Ord. 486 § 3, 2018; Ord. 416 § 3, 2010; Ord. 274 § 2, 2001; Ord. 257 § 2, 1999; Ord. 227 § 1, 1996; Ord. 57 § 1, 1988; 1987 Code § 6.48.020)
8.04.030 Animal control fees.
The fees for animal control services pursuant to this chapter shall be the same as those fees that the city council for the city of Solana Beach establishes by resolution as may be amended from time to time. (Ord. 486 § 3, 2018; Ord. 416 § 4, 2010)
Prior legislation: Ord. 17.