§ 7-104. Requirements to manage a commercial livery stable.

(a)

Before any person may manage a commercial livery stable, such person must file with the animal shelter department a written application for registration under oath, upon a form which shall be prescribed and supplied by the department, and shall deposit with the department a registration fee, and pass an examination to be administered by the board as to fitness and qualifications to manage a stable and care for equine species or to teach others to ride and care for equine species, as provided in this article.

(b)

No person shall be permitted by the animal shelter department to take an examination to receive a certificate to operate unless such person shall be at least eighteen (18) years of age and has never been convicted of cruelty to animals and has had experience as a stable attendant for at least two (2) years; provided, however, that the animal shelter advisory board may permit a person to take an examination without prior apprenticeship as herein required, provided such person establish to the satisfaction of the board that he or she has been an operator of an active stable for at least one (1) year prior to the date of filing an application for admission to an examination.

(c)

The animal shelter advisory board shall adopt appropriate rules and regulations for the qualifications, certification and examination of applicants to operate and manage stables; and for the conduct of persons affected by this article. Rules established by the board shall be published by the board and supplied to applicants for licenses and certificates.

(d)

If the animal shelter advisory board finds that an applicant has submitted the credentials required by this article for admission to examination, and has paid the registration fee required by this article, the board shall admit such applicant to examination and shall issue a certificate of registration to practice as an operator/manager to those successfully passing the required examination; provided, that if the applicant fails to pass the examination, he or she may be eligible to take another examination no sooner than ninety (90) days without any additional fee. Every certificate of registration issued by the board shall have attached securely thereto a photograph of the person to whom the same is issued, and where a certificate is issued in the name of a corporation, it shall have attached thereto the photograph of the manager thereof. Such photographs shall be furnished by the applicant for registration and shall be of such size as the board may require. The board shall hold public examinations once every ninety (90) days on such dates and at such hours as it shall prescribe. Special examinations may be scheduled by the board upon petition by an applicant and good cause shown.

(Code 1961, § 4-15(h)—(h.3); Ord. No. 20257, § 1, 1-14-98)