Ordinance No. 679ORDINANCE NO. 679
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CYPRESS
AMENDING CHAPTER 3 OF THE CYPRESS CITY CODE TO ADD SECTION
3 -3 THERETO PERTAINING TO DOG CONTROL.
WHEREAS, the use and enjoyment of public parks and other pub;iic,
places has been seriously impaired as the result of the failure d`
certain individuals to control their dogs and prevent them from defe-
cating on such public properties.
NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CYPRESS DOES HEREBY
ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Chapter 3 of the Cypress City Code is hereby amended
to add Section 3 -3 thereto as follows:
"Sec. 3 -3. Dog Control.
(a) No owner or other person having the charge, custody or control
of any dog shall permit, either willfully or through failure to exercise
due care, any such dog to defecate and to allow any such feces to remain
on any public parkway, park, or other public property.
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(b) Any person violating any of the provisions of Section 3 -3
shall be deemed guilty of an infraction and upon conviction thereof
shall be punished by a fine not to exceed $100.00."
SECTION 2. Severability. If any section, subsection, subdivision,
sentence, clause, phrase or portion of this ordinance, or the application
thereof to any person or place, 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 or its application to other persons or places. The City
Council hereby declares that it would have adopted this ordinance, and each
section, subsection, subdivision, sentence, clause, phrase or portion thereof,
irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, subsections, subdivi-
sions, sentences, clauses, phrases, or portions, or the application thereof
to any person or place, be declared invalid or unconstitutional.
SECTION 3. The City Clerk is authorized and directed to certify
as to the passage of this ordinance and to give notice thereof by causing
copies of this ordinance to be posted in three public places within the
City.
FIRST READ at a regular meeting of the City Council of said City held
on the llth day of May 1981, and finally adopted and ordered posted at
a regular meeting of said City Council held on the 26th day of May 1981.
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MAYOR OF THE CITY OF CYPRESS
ATTEST:
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CITY CLERK OF THE CIT OF CYPRESS
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) SS
I, DARRELL ESSEX, City Clerk of the City of Cypress, DO HEREBY CERTIFY
that the foregoing Ordinance was duly adopted at a regular meeting of the
said City Council held on the 26th day of May 1981; by the following roll
call vote:
AYES: 3 COUNCIL MEMBERS: Lacayo, Rowan and Coronado
NOES: 0 COUNCIL MEMBERS: None
ABSENT: 1 COUNCIL MEMBERS: Mullen
CITY CLERK OF THE CITY OF CYPRESS