The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1907-04-12
Ordinance No. 46.

AN ORDINANCE REGULATING THE RUN
MING AT LARGE OF DOGS WITHIN THE
TOWN OF KENNEWICK AND PROVIDING
a PENALTY FOR VIOLATION THEREOF.
Be it ordainnd by the Council of the town OF
Kennewick:
Section 1. That it shall be unlawful for any
dog to be allowed to run at large within the
corporate limits OF the Town OF Kennewick.
unless the owner or harborer first procure Il IL
ense therefor as hereinafter provided.
Section =. The annual license fee dogs is
hereby fixed at One Dollar each per annum for
male dogs and Two Dollars each per annum
for female dogs, and upon the payment of such
amount to the town treasurer for each dog de-
sired to be licensed, the treasurer shall issue
his receipt therefor and upon the presentation
of such treasurer's receipt to the town clerk it
shall be the duty of tn. said clerk to issue Ii
| cense to the party SO applying, upon full COM
pliance OF the applicant with the provisions OF
this ordinance, which license shall be for the
period OF one year. The annual time for issu-
ing licenses as herein provided, aud the time
when each and all licenses shall expire, shall
be on the first day OF May OF each year, and no
licenee shall be issued for less than one year.
The clerk shall furnish with such license
suitable tag to be fastened to the neck OF the
dog so licensed.
Section 8. 1t shall be the duty Of the town
| clerk to promptly register all licenses issued
under this ordinance in the Book OF Licenses
| OF the town.
SectionI. All dogs found at large within the
| corporate limits of the town OF kennewick,
without having Il license tag furnished Oh
| license then III force, are hereby declared TO be
| a public nuisance and it shall be the duty of
| the town marshal to restrain and impound all
| dogs found running at large within the town
! of Kennewick, without The tag as aforesaid be-
| ing iii xed and when iinpounded such Off
csr shall feed the said dogs and treat them in a
humane manner while SO impounded.
Section 5. Any owner harborer OF dog
| or dogs SO impounded by the town marshal
may have the same released upon the payment
| of the sum of One Dollar for each male dog I'D
| the sum OF Two Dollars Tor each female dog aud
| the reasonab BILE cost OF keeping said dog while
| 50 impoulded, winch cost shall exceed til.
sum OF twenty-five cents per day, provided that
| no dogs 50 restrained impouIIded shall be
| released until the owner or harbUrer OF such
dog shall have procured license therefor and
exhibited the same to the town marshal.
| Section 6. 1t shall be the duty OF the town
marshal Immediately upon lmpounding re-
! stralning any dog found running at larg, III
said town Without having Il tag at acn. -
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. notices III three public places i'll SAID town,
| one OF which shall be posted on the city hall !;
said notice to particularly describe the said
dog and when SO taken up and the date OF the
posting OF said notice. Ii at the end of three
days after the posting of said notice no person
claims said dog, and pays the charges and ex-
penses, and procures and exhibits license as
herein prov d. d. the said dog shall be forfeited
and it shall become the duty OF the town mar
shall to Kill and destroy said dog and as com
pensation therefor shall receive from the town
treasurer the sum OF twenty five cents Tor eac h
dog so destroyed and in addition the reason.
able expense and cost of keeping said dog
| while impounded.
| Section I. All fees received under the pro
visions of this ordinance shall be paid into the
town treasury, except the reasonable cost Of