The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1898-04-07
A DOG ORDINANCE
Passed by the City Council
Last Week,
GOES INTO EFFECT NEXT MONDAY,
One Dollar for Male Dogs and Three
Dollars for Female Dogs.
Check Your Deg.
Marietta, Ca. March 3Oth. 1909

Calleu lneetlnS OF council. Present,
Mayor protein Morris presiding. and
full board of council except Mcintosh.
Meeting called by Mayor to pass an ordi
nance to regulate the keeping of dogs in
the city. The following ordinance bv
Alderman Foster was by unanimous con-
sent introduced and unanimously passed.
The Mayor and Council of the CITY of
Marietta do hereby ordain:
l. No person shall be allowed to keen
or harbor about his or her premises. III
said City, or suffer it to be done by anv
person remaining thereon, any dog.
unless the same is registered and licensed
under the authority of the Mayor and
Council of the City of Marietta, as here
matter provided, by this Ordinance
2. Every person desiring to keep with
in said City, one or more dogs shall pre-
vious to the tenth day of April, 1898, and
annually thereafter report the same to
the Clerk of Council, and all dogs so re-
ported shall be registered by consecutive
numbers, and said report and register
shall show the sex, and name of the
owner, of each dog, and metal check
shall be issued for each dog so register
ed; for the year beginning April 10th,
1898, the check issued for and placed
upon each male dog shall be star shaped,
and the check issued for and placed upon
each female dog shall be bell shaped,
and annually thereafter different form
of check from that used in either of the
previous years shall be selected and pro-
vided by the Clerk of Council, provided
always that the checks issued for male
dogs shall be of different shape from
fhnCn faY nj l.
check shall have stamped thereon the fol-
lowing words: MARIETTA DOG CHECK,
and also the number of the check and
the figures denoting the year the same
was issued, and the owner of each dog
shall pay for such registration and check
the sum OF one dollar for each male dog
and the sum of three dollars for each
female dog. Dogs registered and wear.
ing the check as provided in this ordi
nance, shall be regarded as duly licens
ed, and no other.
8. On and after the tenth day of April
1893, any dog found within the limits OF
the City not licensed or not wear.
ing the check, as provided in this ordi-
nance, shall be taken up and impounded
by the Marshal or other person author
lied by him, and if the cost as hereinaf-
ter provided is not paid, and the provis-
ions of this ordinance as to license and
check complied with, within twenty-four
hours from the time of such impound-
ing, it shall be killed by such officer or
authorized person.
4. 1t shall be the duty of the Marshal
or other person authorized by him, to
examine the premises of any person who,
they or either of them, shall have reason
to believe is keeping or harboring dog,
contrary to the provisions of this ordi-
nance; ard no person shall in any way
resist said officer or such authorized per-
son in the discharge of this duty, nor
shall any person, upon whose premises
any unlicensed dog is found, fail or re-
fuse to deliver up said dog to the Mar
shall or other person authorized by him,
when such delivery is demanded by said
officer or such authorized person.
5. If any dog check shall be lost or
destroyed, the owner may make affidavit
of such loss before the Clerk of Council,
and upon the payment of fifty cents to
the said Clerk receive from him another
check, and the number of the check,
reported lost, shall be reported to the
Marshal and all such lost numbers shall
be designated on the register and list
of them kept in the Office of the Clerk
of Council.
6. No person shall place or cause to be
placed on any dog check which has
been lost, provided that when a check,
which has been lost, and in lieu of which
no other check has been issued, is re-
gained by its purchaser, it may beused
by such person for the dog or one of like
sex for which it was purchased. Any
person finding Il lost check, in lieu of
which another check has been issued,
shall deliver the same to the Clerk of
Council, whose duty it shall be to de-
stroy it.
:. Any person who shall bring dog
into the city at a later time of the year
than April 10th, shall at once, make re-
port of and register said dog, as required
by the provisions of this ordinance, and
upon the payment of one dollar less
twenty-five cents, for male dog, and
three dollars less seventy-fve cents for
female dog, for each three months, at
that time fully expired, reckoning from
April 10th of such year, shall be furnish
ed by the Clerk of Council with a check
for such dog.
Q. Inc PROVISIONS Oh IliS ordnance
shall not apply to any dog which is not
kept in the city and which only casually
follows it's owner therein, nor shall they
apply to any dog within the city less
than sixty days Of age.
8. The checks required by this ordi-
nance shall be procured by the Clerk of
Council, and the cost of the same shall
be paid by the city. And no person
shall receive check from any authority
other than the Clerk of Council, except
when the same is attached to a licensed
dog, which is delivered into the possess
ion of such person, and no person shall
deliver check to any person other than
said Clerk, except when the same is at
tached to licensed dog, which is deliv-
cred into the possession of such person
provided that any person by agent Or