The Virginia enterprise., 1908-05-15
Ordinance No. 70.

| An Ordinance relating to the running at
| large of Dogs and the Licensing of
same:
The City Council of the City Of Virginia
| do Ordain as follows:
Section !. That every owner or keeper of
dog or animal of the dog kind. within the
limits of the City of Virginia, shall cause
| the same to be registered numbered. des-
cribed and licensed in the office of the City
Clerk of said City. Such licensing shall
he tor the whole or unexpired portion of
the year ending on the ensuing first of May.
Provided that no license shall be required
for dog or animal of the dog kind while it
is less than three months old.
Such owner or keeper shall pay therefor
| to the City Clerk the sum of one ID dollar
for each male dog. and three 80 dollars for
each female dog. and &c for issuing each
license and tag.
Section =. The City Clerk shall on the first
Monday of each month pay to the City
Treasurer all money received by him on
| account of such licenses, save and except
ing the Clerk S fee for issuing such licenses.
Section 3. The City Clerk of said city
shall, in the matter of issuing such lie
| enses. perform all duties fixed by the gen
| eral laws of the state. He shall, at an ex-
pense not exceeding five (5) cents each pro-
vide and furnish for each licensed dog a
| metallic tag upon which he shall have
| stamped or engraved the register number
of the dog and the year when registered; ;
| the design of such natalie tag to be
changed each year.
ANY person who shall make. sell. plr-
| chase. possess. or shall place or allow to be
| placed on their dog any metallic tag of the
| same form. shape, or intend to be like the
official tag. or shall attempt in any way to
| counterfeit the design adopted for such
official tag shall be guilty of nisde-
| meanOr.
In case the said metallic tag is lost or
stolen. after having been regularly issued
as herein provided. the owner or keeper of
| dog. upon presenting and surrendering
to the City Clerk the license or receipt
| issued when the dog was registered, num-
| bered. described and licensed, as herein
provided, shall receive another tag and
| license upon the payment of twenty-five
| (25) cents to THE City Clerk. which said re-
newal license shall be registered. number
ed. described and issued as the original
| license.
But no person shall be granted new tag
and license unless the original tag has
actually been lost or stolen and the City
Clerk. may before issuing such new license
require an affidavit to be made and furn-
ish by such applicant for a new license and
tag, setting forth the fact that such tag
has been stolen and is not at the time in
their possession.
Section 4. Every owner or keeper of a
dog or animal of the dog kind within said
said city. shall place and keep around the
neck of the dog or animal owned by or kept
by him. a collar, on which shall be securely
fixed the metallic tag above mentioned.-
Section s. No person having the custody
or control of any dog or animal of the dog
kind shall permit the same to go upon any
street in said city or to run at large within
the limits of said city unless it wears the
collar and tag above described.
Section g. No person shall. within said
city. permit or suffer any dog owned or
kept by him. and which 10 known to him
to be of a vicious or dangerous disposition.