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HomeMy Public PortalAboutOrd. 0166ORDINANCE NO. 166. ANORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF LYNWOOD REGULATING THE KEEPING OF DOGS AND DECLARING AN E11ERGENCY. The City Council of the City of Lynwood, do ordain as follows: SECTION 1. That it shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to suffer or permit any dog over the age of four months owned by him or it to run at large on any public,street, alley, park or public place in the City of Lynwood, unless such dog have a muzzle of such strength and shape as to prevent such dog from biting any per- son, or unless such dog shall have been inoceulated for rabies within one year previous thereto by a veterinarian authorized to practise vet- erinary medicine or surgery in this State, in which latter case such dog shall have attached to the collar thereof a metal tag bearing the in- scription (inoceulated -- Rabies and date of Inoculation ". SECTION 2. That it shall be unlawful for. any person, firm or corporation to suffer or permit any dog over the age of four months owned by him or it, to run upon any private property in the City of Lynwood, unless such dog be kept in an enclosure or securely tied up in such manner as to prevent such dog from biting any person, or unless such dog shall have been inoculated for rabies as provided in Section 1 hereof. SECTION 3. Any violation of this ordinance shall be a mis- demeanor and shall be punishable by a fine of not more than $25.00 or by imprisonment in the City or County Jail for a period not to exceed ten days, or by both such fine and imprisonment. WHEREAS the Summer months are approaching and there are num- erous cases of rabies in the County of Los Angeles, and this ordinance is urgently demanded for the preservation of the public health and'safety, u ' NOW THEREFORE the City Council does hereby declare that an emer- gency exists and this ordinance shall take effect upon the first publi- cation hereof. SECTION 4. The City Clerk of the City of Lynwood is direc- ted to certify to the adoption of this ordinance and to cause the same to be published, after its final passage and approval, once in the Lynwood Tribune, which newspaper is hereby designated for,that purpose. PASSED AND ADOPTED THIS 23rd clay of June APPROVED XOR OF THE CITY OF LYMVOOT) Y ATTEST- CLERK STATE OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF•LOS ANGELES ss CITY OF LY"%TWOOD I; the undersigned, City'Clerk of the City of Lynwood, California, do hereby certify that the above and forgoing Ordinance was duly adopted by the City Council of said City at an adjourned regular meeting thereof held in the City Hall of said City, on the 23rd day of June, 1931, and passed by the following vote: AYES: COUNCILM: — Williams, Davies, Grayson _Lnyder and Decker. NOES: COUNCILT-fEN: None. z " COIML CIUMN None.. �tZ X ai — '7TY CLERX, -CITY OF LYNWO OD.