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ORDINANCE NO.' 120
AN ORDINANCE DECLARING THE KEEPING OF ANIMALS AND BIRDS AND ALSO KEEPING DOGS
EXCEPT THOSE KEPT STRICTLY AS PETS, WITHIN THE CORPORATE LIMITS OF THE CITY
OF COLLEGE STATION TO BE A PUBLIC NUISANCE, PROVIDING THAT. DOING SO IS UNLAWFUL,
.AND PROVIDING A FINE FOR VIOLATION.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS
SECTION 1. The keeping of animals and birds within the corporate limits of the
City of College Station results in flies, abnoxious odors and annoying noises,
and hence endangers health and conflicts with peaceful living, and therefore is
hereby deolared to be a public nuisance.
SECTION 2. It shall be unalwful for any owner, lessee, occupant or any other
person in charge of any premises within the corporate limits of the City of
College Station, Texas, to keep or allow to be kept on said promises any horses,
mules, jacks, jennets, swine, cattle, sheep, goats, rabbits, chickens, guinea
pigs, ducks, geese, guineas, turkeys, or any other domesticated or wild live-
stock or birds, or any dogs unless such dogs be kept strictly as pets by the
000upant of the premises.
SECTION 3. Any person violating this ordinanoe shall be fined not less than ten
($10.00) dollars nor more than fifty 050.00) dollarsfor each offense. Each
day this ordinance is violated shall oonstttute a separate offense.
SECTION 4. This ordinance shall become effective upon passage by the City
Council.
SECTION 5. Emergency Clause. The faot that the present ordinances of the City
of College Station are inadequate, and the further fact that many insanitary
oonditions exist within the City due to the existance within the City of
animals and birds named herein creates an emergency and an imperative public
necessity that the rule requiring ordinanoes to be read at more than one meeting
of the City Council before final passage be suspended, and said rule is hereby
suspended, and that this ordinance take effeot and be in full force and effect
immediately from and after its passage at this meeting, and it is so ordained.
Passed and approved, this the 16th day of June, 1948 A. D.
Attests:
14/•)4-C'M
City eoretary
Mayor
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