The Arizona sentinel., 1893-02-11
Dog Ordinance.
 No, G9.

An ordinance providing for st atiou 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 cil of said village:
 DOGS TO BE REGISTERED; PENALTY SEC
 TION1.
 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, CT harborer of any dog shall cause the name of the owner, with the name and description of the g, to be registered with the recorder of said village, in book to be kept by him for that purpose, and shall pay ca:h year to said recorder tefore any dog is registered regis traon fee of dollar and fifty cents for each dog and three dollars for ea:h female dog, and shall keep on the neck of each dNgs registered suit able metallic or leather collar with metallic check CT tag, to be furnished by the village, and the number and year of gstry 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 tie dogs upon which such fee is paid. Any person owning, keeping hdrboring 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 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 l of this ordinance, shall expire the thirtieth day of September of each year, after the registration of such dog.
 AT LARGE WTTHOUT COLLAR, UNLAWFUL,
 SECTION 3; It shall be unlawful for any person to permit his or her dog to at large in any public place ill this village at any time without providing such dog with aregistered collar provided in section l of this ordinance.
 IMpoUNDING AND DESTROYING DOGS, SEC FIONA;
 The Marshal shall capture all dogs found running at large in any public place in said village, not h. ns registered collar in compliance with sec tion one of this ordinance, and place them in a pound to be provided for that purpose and if the owner does not appear in twentyfour 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 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 oi, and numbers of the tags issued by him during such week, he taking She Trea:urer's re eipt ther9for and reporting such roceiI;s to the Council at eae! regular meet iHg.
 SECTION 5---This ordinance shall be n force after it shall have been published tlree weeks success sively in the Arizona SENTINEL. Approved Sep teInber 2, 1892.
 Attest: A. FRANK, Mayor. ,. l.. kEDONDO, Recorder.
 l, J. L. Redondo, Recorder of the village of Yuma, Territory of Arizona, do hereby certify that the foregoing ordinance, No l, was passed by ma icr'ty vote o the Conlmon Council of said village and rocartlcl by me in book kept for that pur ,c,e.
 In nwi;nes my head ri the e r.orate seal of said ti5ge horeurto 2 xe. this 25ti day of 5 ptember, 1892.
 ..u. J. L. SD ,,n,,. t!e.order.