The Arizona sentinel., 1893-03-18
Dog Ordinance.
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An ordinance providing for st atiou of dogs kept in the village of Yuma, A ,and fixing fees therefor and fer the punishmen of offenders, and to prevent 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
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 That no person shall keepa 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 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 tration fee of one 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 suit able metallic leather collar, with metallic check or tag, to be furnished by the village and the number and year of gistry 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 t2x 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 tho village of Yuma in violation of the pro-
  in Q magistrates court be subject to Q fine of not | less than four dollars 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 1 Of this ordinance, shall expire on the thrtieth day Of September of each year, after the registration of such das.
 AT LARGE WITHOUT COLLAR, U1;LAwFUL,
 g., .1T3i3 3; It shall De unllw;u for any person to permit his or her dog to run at large in any public plavo in this village at any time without providing such dog with aregstered collar as provided in section l of this ordinance.
 IMPoUNDI7G AND DEsTECTI.;o O09S, SEC TON 4; | The Marshal 5hai! capt.r3 all logs founl running at large in any public place in said village, not having registered collar in compliance with sec tion 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 inpounding, and claim anl register at once, such dog or dogs, then the Marshal shall kill and bury the same and he shall be allowed such for each dog so killed and buried as tiie Council may 1 fix;
 PROVIDED that this secsion shall not apply 10 dogs not owned or harborei in this village unless they be found at large without any owner 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 of, and numbers of the tags issued by him during such week, he taking the Treasurer's eipt therefor and reporting such receipts to the Council at each regular meet ing.
 SECTION 5---This ordinance shali be in force after it shall have been published three weeks success sively in the Arizona SENTINEL. Approved Sep | tember 27, 1892.
 Attest 4. FRANK, Mayor. J. L. REDONDO, Recorder.
 ILL Redondo, Recorder of the village of Yuma Territory of Arizona, do hereby certify that tho foregoing ordinance, No. l, was passei by ma ior:ty vote of the Common Council of said village and recorded by me in a book kept for. that pur pose.
 In witness my hand and the corporate seal of sait village hereunto affixed this 18th day of September 1892.
 l SEAL.l J. L. RED0ND0, Recorder.