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b. Any Owner or Keeper of ten (10) or be seventy-five dollars ($75.00). The more dogs, six (6) months of age or Town Clerk shall, upon application, older; or a Commercial boarding or issue without charge a Commercial training kennel; or a Commercial Kennel License to any domestic charita. Breeder Kennel; or a Domestic charita- ble corporation, incorporated exclu. ble corporation kennel shall obtain a sively for the purpose of protecting ani. Commercial Kennel License. The mals from cruelty, neglect or abuse,and Town Clerk shall not issue a Personal for the relief of suffering among ani. Kennel License unless the owner or mals. A veterinary hospital shall not be keeper provides the Town Clerk with a considered a kennel unless it contains veterinarian's certificate verifying that an area for the boarding of dogs for each dog six (6) months of age or older other than medical purposes, in which is currently vaccinated against rabies. case it shall apply for a Commercial Application for a Commercial Kennel Kennel License. The license period for license shall also require a special per- a kennel license shall be from January 1 mit from the Zoning Board of Appeals. to December 31, inclusive. i' c. Issuance of a Personal or Commercial f. The Animal Control Officer, or any Kennel License shall be contingent agent authorized by the Town Manager, upon inspection and approval by the may, at any time during the hours of 9 Animal Control Officer to ensure that a.m. to 5:00 p.m., inspect any kennel or basic standards of cleanliness and premises for which a Personal or proper care and confinement of said Commercial Kennel License has been dogs exist on the premises. The name issued upon his/her reasonable and and address of the owner of each dog articulable belief that there has been a kept in any kennel, if other than the per- violation of this bi-law or that the basic son maintaining the kennel, and a vet- standards of cleanliness and proper care erinarian's certificate verifying that and confinement of said dogs no longer each dog six (6) months of age or older exist on the premises is currently vaccinated against rabies, shall be kept on file thereat and avail- g. If the Animal Control Officer or other able for inspection by the Animal authorized agent, after inspection, Control Officer or any authorized per- determines that the kennel or premises sons. that are the subject of a kennel license are not kept in a sanitary or humane j d. Such license shall be in a form pre- condition, or if records are not kept as scribed by the Town Clerk. Such required by law, the Town Manager license shall be in lieu of any other may, by order after hearing, revoke or license for any dog while kept at such suspend such license. If a license has kennel during any portion of the period been revoked or suspended, the license for which such kennel license is issued. may be reinstated after inspection. The holder of a license for a kennel shall cause each dog kept therein to h. Upon written petition of twenty-five wear, while it is at large, a collar or har- (25) neighbors of the kennel who are ness of leather or other suitable mater- residents, filed with the Town Manger, ial,to which shall be securely attached a setting forth that they are aggrieved or tag upon which shall appear the number annoyed to an unreasonable extent by of such kennel license,theear of issue, one or more dogs at the kennel because Y g and the inscription "Mashpee". of excessive barking or vicious disposi- tion of said dogs, or other conditions e. The Personal Kennel License fee shall connected with such kennel constituting be fifty dollars ($50.00). The a public nuisance, the Town Manager, Commercial Kennel License fee shall within seven (7) days after the filing of 64