The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1893-01-07
Dog Ordinance.
RIO. 10.

An ordinance providing for st. atiou of dogs
kept in the village of Yuma A land fixing fees
therefor, and for the punishment 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-
| Gil of said village:
DOGS TO BE REGISTERED; PENALTY SEC
TONI.
That no person shall keep dog in the village of
Yuma after such dog has reached the age of six
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 kept by
him for that purpose, and shall pay each year to
said recorder before any dog is registered regis
traton fee of dollar and fifty cents for each dog
and three dollars for each female dog, and shall
keep on the neck of each dog so registered a suit
able metallic or leather collar with metallic check
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 tax
collected.
The recorder shall keep a 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 the village of Yuma in violation of the pro-
visions of this section shall upon conviction thereof
in magistrates court be subject to fine of not
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 ?;
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 aregistered collar as provided in section
1 of this ordinance
IMPOUNDING AND DESTROYING DOGS, SEC
TON 4;
The Marshal shall capture all dogs found running
at large in any public place in said village, not
having registered collar in compliance with sec
ton one Of this ordinance, and place them in q
pound to be provided for that purpose; and if the
owner does not appear in twenty-four hours after
such impounding, and claim and register at once
such dog or dogs, then the Marshal 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 to dogs
not owned harbored in this village, unless they
be found at large without any owner or master.
1t shall be the duty Of the recorder to report and
pay over to the village Treasurer once in each
week all mOueys collected by him for registration
feetogether with the number Of and numbers of
the tags issued By him during such week, he taking
the Treasurer's receipt therefor and reporting
such receipts to the Council at each regular meet
ing.
SECTION 5.--This ordinance shall be in force after
it shall have been published three weeks success
sively in the Arizona SENTINEL. Approved Sep
TENDER q, 1892.
Attest: A. FRANK, Mayor.
]. L. REDONDO Recorder.
IL. L. Redondo Recorder of the village of Yuma,
Territory of Arizona do hereby certify that the
foregoing ordinance, No. l, was passed by ma
jority vote of the Common Council of said village
and recorded by me in book kept for that pur-
pose.
In witness my hand and the corporate seal of said
village hereunto affixed this 2Sth day of September,
1892.
lsEAL.l J. L. REDONDO, Recorder.