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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance No. 116Ordinance No. r b An ordinance for .Revenue and Police regulation,providing for the 1 Licensing of Dogs in the City of Azusa and providing a Penalty for 2 the Violation of the same. 3 The Board of Trustees of the City of Azusa do ordain as follows: 4 5 SECTION l: It shall be,and is hereby declared to be,unlawful for 6 any person or persons owning or having charge,care or control of 7 any dog to have or keep the same within the corporate limits of th 8 City of Azusa,on and after January 15th. 1910,unless there shall b, 9 lattached to such dog a collar on which there shall be a metal tag 10 obtained from the City Tax and License Collector as hereinafter 11 provided and inscribed as hereinafter provided and no dog shall be 12 permitted to be or remain within said corporate limits without sue' 13 tag. 14 Seaction 2: The City Tax and License Collector is hereby author - 15 ized and directed to procure every Year before the First Monday 16 in March as many metal tags as may be necessary,which tags shall 17 be plainly rAmbered and shall have the year inscribed thereon and 18 a statement of the.sex of the dog for which each such tag is 19 issued. Such tags shall be effective until the first Monday of 20 March of the year next ensuing and no longer. 21 Provided however that said tags so furnished and issued under the 22 provisions of this ordinance prior to the First Monday of March, 23 1910 shall be effective until the First Mondaq of March,1910 and 24 no longer. 25 Said Tax and License collector shall furnish a tag or tags to any 26 person or persons applying therefor and paying the sum of one 27 dollar each for tags for male dags and two dollars each for tags 28 for female dogs, and said Tax and License collector shall keep a 29 register in which shall be entered the name of the person or per - 30 sons to whom eacg tag is issued,the number of the tag, the date of 31 issuance and a general description of the dog for which each such 32 tag shall be issued giving sex,color,age and breed of the same. 8. r i 1 Section 3: It is hereby made the duty of the Marshall,Pound Master 2 and of all Police Officers of said City, to take up all dogs 3 found running at large in said City unless a proper tag as in 4 this ordinance provided,is attached thereto. All dogs taken up 5 under this ordinance shall be delivered to the Poundmaster of 6 said City and shall be kept confined by him and provided with MR 7 proper food and water until disposed of as hereinafter prop. ed. 8 Any dog impounded may be redeemed by paying one dollar pound fee, s 9 and procuring said dog a proper tag as provided in this ordinance 10 A description of all dogs impounded and not immediately redeemed 11 shall be posted in three Public places in said City for a period 12 of three days,at the expiration of said three days,all dbo.im- 13 pounded and unredeemed, shall be killed and burried by said Pound 14 master; Provided that after the expiration of the three days as 15 above specified skid Poundmaster shall have the right to dispose 16 of any unredeemed dog by gift or sale to any perilo will pay 17 the pound fee of one dollar and procure the necessafok tag for said 18 deg. 19 SECTION 4: It shall be and is hereby declared to be unlawdul for 20 any person to imitate or counterfeit the tags provided for in thi 21 ordinance or to use any imitation or counterfeit thereof. 22 SECTION 5: It shall be and is hereby declared to be unlawful for 23 any person to rescue or attempt to rescue any animal mentioned 24 herein from the possession of the Poundmaster or of any Officer of 25 said City while he may be engaged in conveying the same to the 26 City Pound. 27 SECTION 6: The City Tax and License Collector and Poundmaster 28 shall pay over to the City Treasurer all money received by them 29 respectively under this ordinance. They shall each file with the 30 I City Clerk an itemized Monthly report of their respective receipts 31 I under this ordinance. The Poundmaster shall be entitled to receive 32 fifty cents (?x.50) for each dog impounded and an additional fifty 2. r - 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 RH 29 30 31 32 r cents ($.50) for each dog killed under this ordinance,which said sums shall be in full payment for all services performed by him under this ordinance,and shall be paid out of the general fund of said City upon warrant authorized and ordered by the Board of Trustees of said City. SECTION 7: The provisions of this ordinance shall not apply to proved to be any dog or dogs„of a transient nature. SECTION 8: Any person violating any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor,and upon con- viction thereof in a Court of competent jurisdiction shall be pun— ished by a fine not exceeding fifty (50.00) dollars or by im— prisonment in the City Jail of the City of Azusa for a period of not exceeding drifty days,or by both such fine and imprisonment. SECTION 9: Ordinance number 50 of the City of Azusa, and all ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict with the provis— ions of this ordinance are hereby repealed. Section 10: The City Clerk shall certify to the passage of this ordinance and shall cause the same to be published once in the Pomotropic,a weekly Newspaper of general circulation published and circulated iri the City of Azusa. Adopted this / 0,Day of January,1910. Attest: (Seal). President of the Board of Trustees of the City of Azusa. City Clerk of the City of Azusa. 3. 1 2 3 FOE An 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 State of California, City of Azusa. SS. 1, G.E. Glover,City Clerk of the City of Azusa, State of California,do hereby certify that the foregoing ordin- ance was adopted by the Board of Trustees of the City of Azusa, State of California,at a regular meeting thereof and signed at said meeting 00 by the President of said Board on the/6Day of January,1908, and that the same was adopted by the following vote, towit: Ayes: a., C, lle ,' -1! Noes: Absent: (Seal) City Clerk of the City of Azusa.