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-5- receive application and issue certificates and tags for animals at the time of vaccination. Copies of all certificates issued shall be distributed and transmitted to various city agencies in accordance with arrangements made by the animal control officer with the veterinarians. The animal control officer shall maintain a central filing place for copies of the certificate. When applying for additional certificates and tags the veterinarian shall account to the animal control officer for all those previously supplied to him. At that time the veterinarian shall remit to the animal control officer all registration fees collected. He shall be ht=:l (; Cinanc:La,11y responsible for any other certificates and tags no longer in his possession that have not been issued or voided and returned to the animal control officer. The animal control officer is authorized not to supply additional certificates and tags to any veterinarian í"ho fails to account for all those previously furnished him by the animal control officer. All registration fees collected by any veterinarian are payable to the city upon demand. Sec. 3-26. Rabies vaccination required. It shall be the duty of the owner or keeper of each and every dog over the age of four (4) months kept in the city to have such dog vaccinated against rabies by a practicing veterinarian at least once each year. Sec. 3-27. Fee. There is hereby fixed and assessed as a police regulation for the protection of the public health a registration fee of two dollars ($2.ØØ) per dog per annum against the owner or keeper of each and every dog kept in the city. Sec. 3-28. Issuance. Upon payment of the registration fee required under this division and pLesentation of a certificate by a practicing veterinarian showing that the dog has been vaccinated against rabies and such vaccination is current, the animal control officer or his designee shall supply to each applicant a tag suitable to be fastened upon a collar around the dog's neck. It shall be the duty of the animal cont::ol officer or his designee to provide suitable metal tags for such dogs, which tags shall evidence the payment of the registration fee and the registration of such dogs. No registration tag shall be issued unless the application is accompanied by such veterinarian's certificate. Sec. 3-29. Term. The registration issued under this Division 2 shall run from the date of licensing for twelve (12) months. Sec. 3-39. Tag to be worn by dog. It shall be the duty of the owner or keeper of each dog to have and to keep the tag issued under this division at all times during the year securely fastened around the neck of such dog. The failure of the owner in this respect shall have the same effect as if no registration fee had been paid upon such dog. Sec. 3-31. Transfer. (a) No person shall use a registration tag for any dog other than the one for which it was issued.