St. John, Missouri

Section 205.030 License Fee.

An annual license fee of twenty dollars ($20.00) for each dog/cat, male or female, is hereby imposed upon every resident person who owns, controls, manages, possesses or has part interest in any dog/cat six (6) months of age or older, kept any time during the year, or upon every resident person who permits a dog/cat six (6) months of age or older to come upon, in and to remain in or about his home, place of business, or other premises in the area affected by this Chapter.

There shall be a license fee of two dollars ($2.00) for each dog/cat having been neutered/spayed. An applicant for a dog/cat license for any dog/cat shall present to the Licensing Official a certificate of inoculation against rabies signed by a licensed veterinarian, which certificate shall have been executed sometime during the previous thirty-six-month period if a three-year-type vaccine approved by the St. Louis County Health Commissioner was administered, or during the previous twelve-month period for all other vaccines, and which certificate shall bear thereon information as to the type of vaccine used, sex of the dog/cat, and if a female, whether or not it has been spayed. Said Licensing Official shall not issue a license unless such certificate shall be presented. Application for a dog/cat license shall be made, and the license obtained on or before May 1 of each year, for the succeeding twelve-month period. The full license fee shall be paid and collected for part of a year. The transfer of ownership or custody of any dog/cat shall be reported to the Licensing Official by the transferee within ten (10) days after such transfer, by written notice, at which time the transferee shall pay the Licensing Official a transfer fee of twenty-five cents ($.25). There shall be no charge for a license for a dog properly trained to assist disabled persons when any such dog is actually being used by a disabled person for the purpose of aiding or assisting such disabled person in going place to place. Any owner of a dog/cat who suffers the loss of his dog/cat license tag shall report said loss promptly to the Licensing Official and exhibit the original license at which time he shall be issued a new license tag at a cost of twenty-five cents ($.25).