§ 6.04.020. Dogs—License required—Fee

Every dog six months old or over shall be licensed pursuant to G.L. c. 140, § 137. As proof that the dog has been spayed or neutered, the owner or keeper shall present to the Director of the Animal Commission or his designee a certificate of the registered veterinarian who performed the operation. Effective June 1, 2009, the fee for such license shall, except as otherwise provided, be eight dollars for a spayed or neutered dog and twenty-five dollars for a dog that is not spayed or not neutered. If the Director is satisfied that the certificate of the veterinarian who performed the operation cannot be obtained, he may accept in lieu thereof a sworn statement of a veterinarian registered and practicing in the Commonwealth, describing the dog, and stating that he has examined the dog and that, in his opinion, it has been spayed or neutered. No fee shall be charged for a license for a dog specially trained to lead or serve a blind person, if the Division of the Blind certifies that such dog is so trained and actually in the service of a blind person. No part of the fee shall be refunded because of the subsequent death, loss, spaying, castration, removal from the Commonwealth or other disposal of the dog. Nor shall any part of the fee paid by mistake be refunded.

(Ord. 1321, 5/18/2009; Ord. 1275, 2004; 1125 § 2, 1991; Ord. 1096, 1990: Ord. 998 (part), 1983: prior code § 4-7)