The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1914-07-10
A N ORDINANCE.
Hartman l. Gaver.
june26-3t Clerk.

AN ORDINANCE to repeal and re-en-
act with amendments, Sections 3, 6, g.
and 9, of an ordinance enacted and or
dained by The Mayor and Aldermen of
Frederick, on the 18th day of June, A.
! D., 1909, entitled, IAN Ordinance to re-
peal Sections II, 49, 70, so, 81 ana 80 of
Ordinance No. 8, entitled, Health and
Nuisances, etc, relating to the keeping
| of dogs in Frederick"
! Section l. Be it Enacted and Ordained
+ by the Mayor and Aldermen of Frederick,
| That Sections, 3 6, 8 and g. of an Ordi-
nance enacted and ordained by The Mayor
and Aldermen of Frederick, ON the 10Th
| day of June, A. D.. 1909 entitled, IAN
Ordinance to repeal Sections n, IS, 10, 50,
| 81 and 81, of Ordinance No. 8, entitled,
| Health and Nuisances," ETC., relating to
the keeping of dogs in Frederick, be and
the same are hereby repealed and re-en
acted with amendments so as to read as
| follows:
Section 3. Be it Enacted and Ordained,
| That no animal of the dog kind shall be
permitted to run ut large, at any time
whatever, upon any avenue, street, lane,
alley, highway, common or public square,
or park in Frederick, unless every
| Sutll JliilLdl Sllli DC, uOI Olly octuIclN
muzzed, so as to prevent it from biting
any person or animal, but also provided
with license tag, and the owner or har
borer of any dog or bitch shall pay annu-
ally, on or before the first day of July, in
each and every year to the City Register,
the sum of One Dollar for every dog and
the sum of Two Dollars for every bitch,
upon which payment the City Register
| shall issue to any such owner or harbOrer,
! a license tag with corresponding number
on each, which said tag shall be affixed by
said owner or harbOrer to such dog or
bitch Any animal of the dog kind shall
| be considered as running at large within
the meaning of this ordinance when such
animal Is upon any avenue, street, lane,
alley, highway, common or public square
| or park, i'll Frederick, and is not led by a
/ chain, or is not in leash, or is not confined
| in such manner as to prevent it from bit
| ing any person or animal All owners and
harboreIs of dogs shall be liable for all
| damages done by them to the full amount
of the injury inflicted, and shall also be liza
BILE in such cases, to the fines and penalties
set forth in the 11th Section of said Ordi-
nance of June 10th, A. D 1909.
Section g. Be it Enacted and Ordained,
| That any animal of the dog kind found
running at large and not provided with a
license tag, though such animal be
muzzed, shall be seized and detained by
the person or persons appointed for that
purpose and unless claimed and redeemed
within the time specified in the Fourth
Section of said Ordinance of June 10th,
| 1909, by the payment of the license tag
and the additional sum of two dollars for
the expenses of taking up, impounding and
keeping, it shall be killed. In case the
records in the Office of the City Register
show that the owner or harborer of any
dog or bitch, has paid for license tag for
said animal, for the then current year, the
| owner or harborer of said animal shall not
be Obliged to pay for new license but
shall pay the sum of twenty-five cents for
a renewal of the original license, and in
such cases the person or persons taking
such animals into custody shall not re-
ceive any compensation therefore.
Section 8. Be it Enacted and Ordained,
That any animal of the dog kind found
running at large and not muzzed as re-
ouired, though said animal be provided
with a license tag, shall be seized and de-
tanned by the person or persons appointed
for that purpose, and if not claimed and
redeemed within the time specified in the
4th Section of said ordinance of June 10th,
| A. D., 1909, by the payment of the sum of
two dollars it shall be killed
Section g. Be it Enacted and Ordained,
That any animal of the dog kind found
running at large without being either muz-
zled or tagged shall be seized and detained,
and if not claimed and rede med within
forty hours, by the payment of the
license tax and the additional sum of three
dollars, it shall be killed.
Section 2. Be it Enacted and Ordained
by the authority aforesaid, that this Ordi
nance shall take effect from the date of its
passage and that all ordinances or parts of
| ordinances, inconsistent with the provis-
ions of this ordinance, be and the same
are hereby repealed, to the extent of such
inconsistency.
Passed, June 18th, A. D., 1914.
LLOYD G. CUTLER, P. B. A.
Approved, June 18th, A. D., 1914.
LEWIS H. FRALEY,