The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1899-07-28
DOG DAYS
Proposed Ordinance Of the City to Ii
cenSe and Regulate.
To Provide for the Taxing. Impoundine
Selling, Killing and Burying
of Dogs.
BE it ordained by the common council of
the CITY OF Salem OrnOnn.

own or care for, within the corporat,
limits of the city of Salem, Oregon. an,
dog or dogs, of the age of more thai
} four months, without first having oh
tanned from the city marshal of said CITY
a license for each and every dog as
specified in this ordinance.
Sec. 2. The owner, keeper or care.
taker of any dog or dogs as hereinafter
described, within this city, shall, ON or
before the first day of July of each year.
pay to the city marshal of Salem Oregon,
the sum of one dollar and fifty cents
l.5O) in gold or silver coin, as and for
a licence fee for each and every male and
female dog and spayed dog so kept or
owned; and said payment shall
entitle said owner, keeper or care
taker to a receipt from said city
marshal designating the name of such
owner, keeper or caretaker, the number
OF such license, the name of the dog or
dogs If possible, the date of payment
and brief description of the licensed
animal or animals; and the number of
said license shall correspond with the
number of metal tag which shall be
given by said city marshal To such owner
Keeper or caretaker, to be placed by the
latter, at his own expense, upon said
dog or dogs. And the license fees aris-
ing under this section shall be paid into
the city treasury of Salem, Oregon, bv
said city marshal.
Section 3. Ii shall be lawful for the
City Marshal, with the consent of the
Common Council, to appoint a capable
and trustworthy person to seize, inn
pound, maintain, post publish, sell,
XIII and bury any dog or dogs as afore-
SAID, under the terms and conditions of
this ordinance, found by him running
at large within the corporate limits of
tins city, the owner, keeper or caretaker
OF which has failed to procure and pay
for the license herein prescribed. And
upon the impounding ofany such ami
NAL or animals as aforesaid, the City
Marshal or his said appointee, shall inn
mediately post written notice of such
impoundment upon the bulletin board
at the door of the office of saidCity
Marshal, at the city hall, and shall mail
a similar notice 10 the owner, keeper or
caretaker, of ouch animal or animals,
provided such address is known with
any degree OF certainty, and said no
| tices shall contain brief but careful
description of the animal or animals
! impounded hereunder, the date OF i'm.
less the owner keeper or caretaker of
said animal or animals, shall, within
seven days from the date of said notice,
appear and claim possession of said dog
or dogs, and pay the prescribed license
fee, together with the costs of keeping
and posting said animal or animals, the
! City Marshal will sell the same at pub
lie sale, mt n certain day and hour, at
! the city pound, TO the highest bidder for
cash. And no bid shall he received at
any such sale, that shall be less than
the aggregate sum of such license fee,
the cost of maintenance Of said dog or
dogs, mt 25 cents per day each, and the
| fee for posting and mailing notices
hereby fixed at the sum OF 25 cents for
each and every dog impOund-
ed; said fees as herein pro-
vided TO accrue and belong 10 the
| City Marshal for his services in this be-
half. And upon payment of the afore-
said fees the purchaser or purchasers of
such dog or dogs, shall be entitled to
and receive from the City Marshal a Ii
cense and tag as provided for i'm Section
OF this ordinance.
Section 4:-lt shall be lawful for the
city marshal to postpone the sale or
| sales provided for in section hereof,
| from day TO day, for a period not greater
| than three consecutive days, II the bids
at same are not sufficient TO cover the
aggregate OF fees and expenses herein
| specified and il at the final sale herein
under, the bid or bids shall not reach
such aggregate sums of fees and expenses
! then it shall be lawful for the city
marshall 10 kill and bury any or all of
said impounded animals and the fee for
such killing and burying OF said dog or
dogs, and accruing 10 the city marshall
aforesaid, is hereby fixed at the sum of
81 80 for each and every dog so killed
and buried; said last named fee 30 be
paid by warrant, drawn by order of the
common council, on the city treasury,
upon the approyPl by said common
council, OF the report OF said city
marshall Of his acts had and done under
the provisions OF this ordinance said re-
port TO be filed by said marshall at the
first regular meeting Of said council i'm
each month OF the year.
Sec. 3. No slut or female dog, ~
time of heat, nor any vicious dog, oI
mad dog, shall be permitted to run at
large upon the or i'm the streets, alleys
: parks or public places Of the City Of Sa'
lem Oregon, licensed or unlicensed, IN
less dnly muzzled and led by the owner
keeper or caretaker of such animal anC
il shall be lawful for any person or per
sons 10 kill any such female dog in time
OF heat, or yiciOns, or mad dog, 50 fOunC
running at large, unmuzzled and unat
tended: and the owner, keeper ar care
taker of any such female dog in time o
heat, or vicious or mad dog, permitting
such animal 10 so run at large, in dOla
tion OF the provisions OF this section
shall be deemed guilty OF misde
/ meanor, and upon conviction thereof
before the city recorder Of this city
shall be fined in a sum not less than $40
nor more than $50, or imprisoned in III
city jail not less than five days no
more than twenty days.
Section 6:--All dogs, licensed or mn
licensed, against which the provision
OF this ordinance are operative, ar
herby declared 10 be public nuii
a ances, and any person who shall TAI
r neglect OF refuse 10 comply fully wit
the terms of this ordinance, or wh
Il shall seek in any manner % eyade q
!. avoid any Of its provisions, shall upO
conviction thereof before the City h'
corder Of Salem, be fined in sum n'
less than ten dollars ltl'
nor more than fifty do
lars SO, OF imprisoned in the city ia
not less than five days nor more tina
twenty days.
Section Amy person who shall y
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