17.02.050 Cat licensing – Civil violations.
The following cat licensing regulations are designed to protect public health and safety, and the welfare of cats. The owner of a cat shall license his/her cat as required in CCC 17.02.045. The violation of this section is a Class 1 civil infraction. It is unlawful for any person to violate any of the following regulations:
(1) Owning an unlicensed cat over the age of six months;
(2) Owning a cat over the age of six months that is off its owner’s property while not wearing a collar with a current valid metallic license tag attached, or is not otherwise permanently identified with a microchip that can be correlated with a license number as provided for in CCC 17.02.015(3);
(3) Owning a cat wearing a license tag registered to another cat;
(4) Removing a license tag from any cat without the authorization of the owner of the cat;
(5) Falsely representing whether any cat is neutered, nonneutered, spayed, nonspayed, or microchipped for the purpose of securing a cat license.