HomeMy Public PortalAboutMinutes - 2/7/1927THE HERALD,
ORDINANCE No. 76 ;
DOG LICENSE
AN ORDINANCE,
Providing for the License of Dogs
to Run at Large and Prescribing
Penalties for Violation.
Be it ordained by the council of the
Town of Wellsburg,
Iowa-
r lThat
be considered owS owner of a dogwhoshall own, or have in charge or harbor
l ,the same or allow it to remain in, on,
or about his premises to exceed three'
clays.
SECTION 2. No dog over three
Imonths old shall run at large, unless a
license to run at large has been pro
cured and the license paid, which I
license shall be Two Dollars for all
male dog, or spayed bitch, and Five
Dollars for a female dog, nor unless
such dog shall wear a metallic or
leather dog collar bearing the license I
{ tar. Such license shall not be issued'
i for a dog known to be vicious or dan-
gerous, and no vicious dog whether lic
ensed or not, shall be allowed to run at
large.
SECTION 3. The owner shall
annually, before the first day of
March, pay the License for that year'
and secure a license tag from the
Clerk for each dog owned. I
SECTION 4. The owner of any dog,
after paying such license, shall place
upon every animal a collar, with a
tag supplied by the Clerk, attached; I
stating the number and year given by
the Clerk, and such collar and tag
shall be kept on such dog during the i
5•ear for which the license is paid, and!
no person shall place any such collar
on any dog for which the license has
not been paid.
SECTION 5. The Marshal from
and after the first day of May in each'
Year, shall make or cause to be made,
personal demand of the owner of any l
dog for which the license has not been
paid, for the license for that year, and,
notify the owner to put and keep a
collar with the license tag around the l
neck of each dog owned. The Mar-
shal or person collecting the license'I
shall receive Fifty Cents for each dog
on which he collects thelicense after
May first of each year, which fifty,
cents shall be in addition to the license 1
above provided for, and lvhich shall be I
I paid by the owner of the dog.
I SECTION 6. The ➢larshal or any
lother, person appointed by the Mayor
in writing, shall kill any dog running
'at large on and after July first of
each year, for which the owner has not
paid the license, or which dog does not
have the collar on, as above required.
Any person appointed by the Marshall
shall receive a fee to be paid by the
city, of Fifty Cents for each dog kill-
e( under the provisions of this or
other sections of this Ordinance.
SECTION 7. It shall be unlawful
for any person owing a female dog to
permit or suffer her to run at large;
when she is in heat, with or without a
muzzle, or with or without a license,
and every such female dog found run-
ning at large, shall be killed by the
Marshal or other person designated
in writing by the Mayor to kill the 11
.same.
SECTION 8. It shall be lawful for
.any person to kill any dcvz caught in'
the act of worryhiz, maiming, or kill-
ing* any domestic animal or domestic!
fuwl, or attempting to bite or attack
any person, outside the enclosure of
the owner of such dog.
SECTION 1). Upon the written
complaint of one or more persons, i
l filed with the Mayor, that any dog;
owned by the person named in the
complaint is committing injury to per-
sons or property, or is an annoyance,
dangerous, offensive or unhealthy,;
the Mayor shall notify the owner to i
restrain such dog from running at
large, and keep such dog upon thel
promises of the owner, even though
the license has been paid.
SECTION 10. Whenever the Mayor
deems it expedient, or whenever in-!
structed to do so by the council, he
shall issue his proclamation requiring
all persons owning clogs to confine
same from running at large, without l
being securely muzzled, for a specified,
stated, not exceeding ninety days, and
it shall be the duty of every person'
upon publication of such proclamation,
owning a dog, to confine the same by:.
,Good =,efficient means, or cause the j
same to be properly muzzled so as
to prevent the same from biting any;
person or animal.
SECTION 11. It shall bl" the duty;1
of the Marshal, or other person ap-
pointed by the Mayor. to kill any dog
1 found running at large after the issu-;
ing of said proclamation not properly''
muzzled; whether the owner of such';
dog has paid the licon3e or not. i
SECTION 12. This Ordinance shall
not apply to clogs of farmers and I
others coming into, or passing through
the Town, but only to such dogs as
are owned or harbored or remain
within the limits.
SECTION 13. Anyone violating;
any of the provisions of this Ord-
inance, shall, upon conviction, be sub-
ject to imprisonment, not to exceed
thirty days, or to a fine not exceed-
ing One Hundred Dollars. Whenever
a fine and costs imposed for the viola-
tion of this Ordinance are not paid,
the person may be committed to jail
until the fine and costs are paid, not
to exceed thirty days.
SECTION 14. All Ordinances or
its of Ordinances in conflict with
e provisiong of this Ordinance are
SECTION 15. This Ordinance shall
in force and effect from and after
R passage and publication in the
rellsburg Herald, a Newspaper pub-
Rbcd in the town of Wellsburg, Iowa.
Passed and adopted by the council
f the Regular Council meeting this
Venth day of February, 1927.
Approved by W. T. CHINK, Mayor,
Attest, G. H. GEERDES, Clerk.
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