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STANDARD B & P
ORDINANCE NO. 248
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AN ORDINANCE REQUIRING TBE LICENSING OF DOGS, PROVIDING THE MANNER OF
SECURING LICENSES, PRESCRIBING CONDITIONS UNDER WHICH BITCHES SHALL BE
PENNED UP, AUTHORIZING THE REQUIREMENT OF ALL DOGS TO BE MUZZLED UNDER
CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES, DIRECTING THE CHIEF OF POLICE TO IMPOUND OR KILL
DOGS UNDER OEN.TAIN CONDITIONS, PROVIDING FOR THE REDEMPTION OF IMPOUNDED
DOGS, AND PROVIDING A PENALTY AND REPEALING ORDINANCES NO. 50 AND NO. 137.
BE IT ORDAINED by the City Council of the City of College Station,
Texas:
I. No person shall allow a dog owned by him or in his care to run
at large within the city unless a license for such dog has been secured and
is in effect, unless such dog is effectively immunized against rabies, and
unless evidence of both such license and immunization are indicated by a
tag or tags, provided by or under the direction of the city, attached to a
collar worn by the dog.
II. In order to obtain a license for a dog the following require-
ments must be met:
a. Making application to the city on forms provided for
that purpose.
b. Attaching a certificate from a licensed veterinarian
that the dog has been innoculated against rabies
recently enough for such innoculation to be effective
during the period for which the license is to be effective.
c. Paying a license fee for a fiscal year or fraction
thereof, according to the following schedule:
(1) one dollar for a male or spayed female.
(2) one dollar for a bitch.
III. No person shall allow a bitch owned by him or in his care to
run at large while she is in heat.
IV. The Chief of Police is hereby directed to capture and impound
any dog running at large which is not wearing an effective license and rabies
tag or tags or any bitch in heat even if wearing such tags. If it is im-
possible for him to capture such dog, he is hereby authorized to kill the
same.
V. The Mayor is hereby authorized at any time when in his judgment
there are rabid dogs in the city and the public health is thereby endangered,
to issue a proclamation forbidding the running at large of any dogs not muzzled.
Upon issuance of such proclamation, the Chief of Police is hereby directed to
capture and impound if possible, and if not, then to kill, any dogs running at
large without muzzles.
VI. Any dog impounded under the provisions of this ordinance may be
recovered by its owner or keeper within forty-eight hours from the time of such
impoundment by the payment to the city of a fee of two dollars and fifty cents
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VII. Any dog that bites any person or is suspected of having rabies
or needs to be under observation shall be placed in the animal hospital in
A. and M. College, and the owner of said dog shall be responsible for the
payment for the fees charged, and failure to pay said fees shall make the
owner of said dog subject to the fines hereinafter stated, and the t,ty.shail
have the authority to do away with any dog after proper notice has been given
to its owner.
VIII. .ill license fees and other fees provided herein shall go into
the treasury of the city to be used for paying the expenses of enforcing this
ordinance.
IX. Any person violating this ordinance shall be fined not to exceed
fifty (150.00) dollars. Violations of Sections I and III of this ordinance
shall each constitute a separate offense, and each day such violation of
either section continues shall also constitute a separate offense.
PASSED AND APPROVED this 25th day of February, A. D. 1957.
ATTEST:
City Secretary
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