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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1940-0050 - Ordinance - 05/23/1940ORDINANCE N. 50.. AN ORDINANCE requiring the 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 city marshall to impound or kill dogs under certain conditions, providing for the'redemption of impounded dors,. and providing a penalty. BE IT ORDAINTED by the City Council of the City of College Station, Texas: 1. 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 un- less 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. 11. In order to obtain a license for a dog the following requirements must be met: a. Faking application to the city on forms provided for that purpose. b. attaching a certificate from a licensed veterinarian that the dog has been innocnlated against rabies recently enough for such innoculetion to be effective during the period for which the license is to be effective. c. raying a license fee for a fiscal year or frrection thereof, according to the following schedule: (1) one dollar for a male or spayed female. (2) five dollars for a bitch. 111. No person shall allow a bitch owned by him or in his care to run at large shile she is in heat. 1V. The City Marshall is hereby directed to capture end 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 impossible 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 cunning at large of any dogs not muz- zlwd. Upon the issuance of such proclamation the City Marshall is hereby directed to capture and impound if possible, and if not, then to kill, any dogs running at large without muzzles. V1. 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 ($ 2.50). V11. All license fees and other fees provided herein shell go into the treasury of the city to be used for paying the expenses of enforcing this ordinance. V111. Any person violating the ordinance shall be fined not to exceed fifty (50.00) dollars. Violations of Sections 1, and 111 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 23rd day of May , 1940. ivi ayo r ORDINANCE NO. 50. AN ORDINANCE Requiring the 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 city marshal to impound or kill dogs under certain conditions, providing for the redemption of impounded dogs, and providing a penalty.• IID /l/3 7 BE IT ORDAINED by the City Council of the City of College Station, Texas: 1. 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 un- less 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. 11. In order to obtain a license for a dog the following requirements 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) five dollars for a bitch. 111. No person shall allow a bitch owned by him or in his care to run at large while she is in heat. IV. The City Marshal 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 impossible 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 muz- zled. Upon the issuance of such proclamation the City Marshal 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 ($2.50): VII. All 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. VIII. Any person violating the ordinance shall be fined not to exceed fifty ($50.00) dollars. Violations of Sections 1, and 111. of this ordinance shall each constitute a separate offense, and each day such violatijt os either section continues shall also constitute a separate offense. Passed and approved this 23rd day of iky, 1940. s/ Frank G. Anderson Mayor ATTEST: s/ Lucy. L. Sneed Asst. City Secretary