8.04.810 - License and permit fees—Debts—Legal liability.

The amount of any license or permit fees imposed by this chapter, and by a city council resolution, shall be deemed a debt to the city and any person keeping any animal without having obtained a license or permit and registration certificate from the city shall be liable to an action in the name of the city in any court of competent jurisdiction for the amount of the license fees and penalties imposed and required by this chapter to be paid for the privilege of keeping such animal and it shall be the duty of the chief animal control officer to cause a complaint to be filed against any person violating any of the provisions of this chapter. Such action shall be cumulative and shall not be deemed a bar to, or a waiver of, the right of the city to prosecute any person for a violation of any applicable provisions of this chapter.

(Ord. 255 §1(part), 1978).