HomeMy Public PortalAboutOrd. 0228ORDINANCE NO
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AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF LYNWOOD REGULATING
THE KEEPING OF DOGS.
The City Council of the City of Lynwood, do ordain as
follows:
SECTION I: Whenever in the judgment of the Public
Health Officer the public health and safety so requires, said
officer shall declare and establish a rabies quarantine zone or
area consisting of the whole or any part of the City and maintain
such quarantine therein until such time as he may deem it advisable
to lift the same.
SECTION II: 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 person, or unless such dog shall have been inoculated for
rabies within one year previous thereto by a veterinarian authorized
to practice veterinary medicine or surgery in this State, in which
latter case such dog shall have attached to the collar thereof a metal
tag bearing the inscription (inoculated - rabies and date of inoculation).
SECTION III: 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 rabiea as provided
in Section II hereof.
SECTION IV: The pound master, or any public health
officer or police officer, is hereby authorized to persue and take
upon any public or private property any dog suspected of being a stray
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or of being dangerous to the public or of being infected with rabier�,
and to persue and take any dog from any area quarantined on account of
rabies.
SECTION V shall be unlawful for any person, firm or
corporation owning or having the control of any dog to permit the same
to run at large in any area quarantined on account of rabies or to
permit any female dog to run at large when the same is "in heat ".
SECTIOK VI: The pound master or any public health officer or
police officer is hereby authorized to enter upon any private property
while engaged in the discharge of his duties under this ordinance.
SECTION VII: Any violation of this ordinance shall be a
misdemeanor and shall be punishable by a fine of not more than $25.00
or by imprisonment in the City or County Tail for a period not to
exceed ten days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
SECTION VIII: The City Clerk shall certify to the passage
of this ordinance and cause the same to be published once in
the Lynviood Trinune , which newspaper is designated for that
purpose.
Passed and approved this 28th day of November, 1933.
ATTEST:__
City Clerk, City of Lynwood
%iayor of the City of Lynwood.
I hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance was duly
adopted by the City Council of the City of Lynwood at an adjourned
re;rular meeting thereof, held on the 28th day of November, 1933
and passed by the following vote:
AYES: Councilmen ' "ri p^ht, Chi kids nn 1 T)ani es .
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Councilmen Snyder and Daetweiler.
CITY CLERK
CITY OF LYNIjOOD.
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