Imperial Valley press., 1908-05-16
ORDINANCE NO. 4.
Imposing License Tax on Dogs, and for Collecting the Same.

Collecting the same
 The Board of Trustees of the City of El Centro do ordain as follows: Sec. l. Every person owning or harbor- ing a dog or dogs in this city shall pay an annual tax thereof as follows: For each male dog, two dollars year; for each female dog, four dollars year, and for a tag for each dog as hereinafter pro- vided, the sum of ten cents.
 | Section g. Each dog owned or harbor- ed in this city shall have a collar secure ! ly fastened upon it's neck and metal tag to be procured from the marshal attached to said collar with number cut, engrav- ed or stamped thereon.
 Sec. g. The City Clerk shall procure, to be made at the expense of the city, a sufficient number of such metallic tags, numbered consecutively from one up- wards, and issue the same in their num- erical order to the marshal in such quan- titles from time to time as may be re- quired, keeping an account thereof.
 Sec. A. The marshal shall collect all li- cense taxes for dogs under this ordinance, and on payment of any such tax, with 1 the fee for the tag as aforesaid, he shall l deliver to the person paying the same one of such tags for each dog; provided, how ever, that after person has procured a ! tag, the same may be used on the same i dog on payment of all subsequent taxes thereon. The marshal shall keep a reg | ster of all dogs for which such license tax shall be paid, with the respective numbers of the dogs and by whom paid with a general description of each dog i and showing which for male and which for female dogs, with the amount of each tax and date of payment thereof, and he shall make monthly returns from his said register to the City Clerk on the first l Monday in each month, showing for each preceding month the like items of taxes paid and by whom and of tags issued, and to whom, with the respective num- bers thereof and sex of dogs, and at the same time he shall pay to the Treasurer the amount so collected by him for such license taxes and for tags, and the Treas urer shall give him receipts for which sums so paid.
 Sec. D. The Clerk shall keep a register similar to that of the marshal from the said returns made to him; at least once every three months shall count the tags in the hands of the marshal and examine
 
 the marshal at ten cents each, all tags delivered to him and not then produced
 Sec. 6. No tag shall be issued by the Marshal except upon payment of the li- cense tax and for the tag as aforesaid and every dog owned, kept or harbored in this city and found loose or running at large in the city without such collar and tag as required by this ordinance 4 sr. T lN11 be taken in charge by the marshal and kept for forty-eight hours iii some safe and comfortable place and not allowed to suffer for food or drink, and if not re- deemed at the expiration of that time by paying the license tax on such dog to the marshal with fifty cents as and foI his charges and services for seizure and keeping, and ten cents for a tag shall Dy the marshal be killed or otherwise dis posed of so as to prevent its running al large in the city without such tag and payment of license tax.
 Sec '. Every person who shall make or cause to be made or shall procure, sell transfer or have in his or her possession charge or control, with intent to use or be used as and for genuine tag or tags any tag or tags in imitation of or similar to the tags authorized by this ordinance but which shall not be made, issued and procured under such authority, or who shall use or cause to be used such spuri- ous or unauthorized tag as and for gen. uine tag as provided or authorized by this ordinance, knowing 1t not to be gen. uine shall be guilty of a misdemeanoi and upon conviction thereof, shall be pun ished by fine not exceeding $10O.0O or by imprisonment not exceeding one hundred days, or by both such fine and imprison- ment.
 Sec. 8. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after its adop' ton and publication, and the Clerk ii hereby instructed and directed to certify this ordinance and the adoption thereof and to cause the same to be published once in the Imperial Valley Press, { newspaper of general circulation, printed published and circulated in the City of E Centro.
 Adopted this 7th day of May 1908. IT. B. PEARSON, President of the Board of Trustees. ' Attest:
 F. G. RAVENS, City Clerk.