The Arizona sentinel., 1893-02-04
Dog Ordinance.
 No. G9.

An ordinance providing for st a:iou of dogs kept in the village of Yuma, A. and fixing fees therefor, and for the punishmen of offenders, and to prevent all dogs not registered running at large, and providing for the impounding and destroying of all dogs found running at large unregistered in said village
 Be it ordained by the Mayor and Commo. Coun- cl Of said village
 DOGS TO BE REGISTERED; PENALTY SEC T!oN1.
 That no person shall keep dog in the village of Yuma after such dog has reached the age of si3, weeks unless said person shall comply with the following regulations:
 The owner, keeper, or harborer Of any dog shall cause the name of the owner, with the name and description of the dog, to be registered with the recorder of said village in book to be ke9t by him for that purpose, and shall pay ca:h year to said recorder before any dog is registered regis traton fee of dollar and fifty cents for each dog and three collars for each female dog, and shlll keep on the neck of each dog 50 registered suit able metallic or leather collar, with metallic cheek or tag, to be furnished by the village, and the number and year of registry to be distinctly marked thereon, and for such service the recorder shall receive fee Of twenty-five cents for dogs and fifty cents for female dogs to be deducted from the t1x collected.
 The recorder shall keep suitable book for the registry of dogs, and upon the payment to him Of the fee aforesaid he shall register the dogs upon which such fee is paid.
 Any person owning, keeping or harboring any dog in tho village of Yuma in violation of the pro visions of tis section shall upon conviction thereof in magistrates court be subject to a fine of net less than four dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, or by Imprisonment not exceeding thirty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment
 EXPIRATION, SECTION 2;
 That all registration of dogs, as provided in section of this ordinance, shall expire on the thirtieth day of September of each year, after the registration of such dog
 AT LARGE WITHOUT COLLAR, UNLAWFUL,
 SECTION 3;
 It shall be unlawful for any person to permit his or her dog to run at large in any public place in this village at any time without providing such dog with registered collar as provided in section 1 of this ordinance.
 LMPOUNDING AND DESTROYING DOGS, SEC
 TI0N f;
 The Marshal shall capture all dogs found running st large in any public place in said village, not hcv ng registered collar in compliauce with sec tion enc Of this ordinance, and plAce them in a pound to be provided for that purpose; and if the owner does not appear in tEenty-four hours after such impounding, and claim and register at once, such dog or dogs, then the Mar5hal shall kill and bury the same and he shall be allowed such sum for each dog so killed and buried as the Council may fix;
 PROVIDED that this section shall not apply 10 dogs not owned or harbored in this village, unless they be found at large without any owner or master
 It shall be the duty of the recorder to report and pay over to the village Treasurer once in each week all moneys collected by him for registration fee together with the number O., and numbers of tie tags issued by him during such week, he taking tlle Treasurer's r. eipt t.er>f,r and reporting sach receipts to the Council It each regular meet ing.
 SECTION 5.---This crfiu2ace snail be in force after it shall have been published three weeks success siyeIy in the Arizona SENTINEL. Approved Sep tember 27, 1892.
 E5tost: 4. FRANK, Mayor J. '. EEDONDO, Recorler.
 i.J L. Relondo, Recorder of the village of Yuma, Territory Of Arizona, do hereby certify that the foregoing ordinance, No. l. passed by ma iority vote of the Common Council of said village a.d Ioeor3.d ': lns il book kept for that pur DO c.
 |. witness ty I:a'rl nd the rgo~ate seal Of said ,;l,ss 'ls-,urto -xa .lis 235l sy os September, Is02.
 s7Ar.i J. L. 2EJo,Tfo. co-ar.ler.