Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1915-08-10
LAW GOVERNING DOGS
WHAT CITY CODE SAYS
Penalty for Not Obtaining Dog
License--Cost Of Same.
TRUE TEXT OF CODE.
DOg-Catcher Must Do His Duty Or be
Removed From Office.

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the City Code governing dogs, their
license, appointment and removal oi
dog catcher, etc. etc;
Section L. Ii shall not be lawful for
| any person or persons to own or har-
Dor any dog or bitch or to allow the
same inside the limits Of the city,with-
out first obtaining a license so to do
from the Clerk of the Corporation. and
thereupon having attached to said dog
or bitch a collar on which the license
tag or number to be furnished by the
Clerk of the Corporation as hereinaf-
ter described
Section 2. All owners or harborers
OF dogs or bitches shall pay to the
Clerk of the Corporation annually the
sum of one dollar and half (S1 500
for every dog, and the sum OF three
dollars $4,000 for every bitch. kept or
allowed within the Corporate limits of
the City of Annapolis, and the evidence
of the payment of such license shall
be a receipt of the Clerk for the same.
and metal tag with the number
thereon securely fastened TO the col
lar of said dog or bitch and if any dog
or birch shall be found TO be improper
ly or falsely numbered. the owner or
owners or harborcrs of the same shall
be liable to fine of five dollars ($5.0 .00)
TO be recovered as other fines and pen
alties are now recovered.
Section 3. 1t shall be the duty OF
the city police i'm the months of Au-
gust and March in each and every year
to take an account of all dogs and all
bitches in the city limits and return TO
the Mayor, Counselor and Aldermen of
the city an alphabetical list of the
names owners and harborers. with the
number of dogs and bitches and har-
bored by each.
Section 4. If any dog or bitch be
found on any of the streets. lanes or
alleys of the City of Annapolis without
a collar with a license number there
unto attached, as required by the pro-
visions of this Article, the said dog or
bitch shall be caught and removed to
some suitable place provided for the
purpose, there to be kept until called
for and released in the manner here
matter provided; provided, however.
that if such dog or bitch shall not be
claimed or delivered up, as prescribed
by thisArticle within forty-eight hours
after being confined IL shall be killed
on the following Tuesday or Saturday
of each week, but all dogs or bitches
shall be kept in the pound for the pc
riod of not less than forty eight hours.
1T shall be the duty of a member of
the police force to be present at the
time such dogs or bitches are killed
and to count the same and report i'm
writing to the Mayor the number of
such dogs killed. The pound shall be
constructed in such a manner that all
dogs may be kept separately, and all
dogs shall be kept separately at all
times.
Section ;. If any person harbors
any dog or bitch within the corporate
limits of the city without obtaining a
license so to do, whether they allow
the same to run at large or not. he or
she shall. upon conviction thereof. be-
fore any Justice of the Peace for the
city, be fined the sum of one dollar a
day for each and every day such dog
or bitch shall be harbored. to be re-
covered as other fines and penalties
are now recoverable.
Section g. The Mayor shall appoint
annually some suitable person whose
special duty it shall be to carry out the
provisions of this Article and who
shall be known as City Dog Catcher
the person so appointed is hereby
clothed with all the powers and au-
thority of a police officer so far as il
relates to the violations of law apper.
tanning to this Article and for the pur-
pose of protecting himself in the dis
charge of his duties; and he is hereby
required to report promptly all such
violations of the provisions of this
| Article as may come to his knowledge
and TO take all proper steps to enforce
| its provisions.
He shall be the authorized agent o.
the Clerk of the Corporation in de
manding license fees from the owner.
and harborers of dogs and bitches a.
prescribed by this Article. On al
sums collected the said Dog Catcher
shall be entitled to a commission o.
twenty per cent. and of all fines col
/ lected on his complaint he shall be en-
titled to one-half, and the other hal
shall go to the City Treasurer for de
fraying the expenses of the carrying
out of this ordinance. For every do,
or bitch caught within the city limit,
without license number attached to /
and impounded by the City Dog Catch
er in the city pound until killed or re
leased under the provisions of this Ar
ticle, he shall, upon certificate of IN,
Mayor, be paid the sum of twenty-fv,
cents; for every dog or bitch kiIIe,
after being impounded as aforesaid IN,
Dog Catcher shall be entitled to IN,
sum of twenty-five cents to be paid OF
order of the Mayor upon the certidcat
OF the Chief of Police.
The owner or harborer of any do,
or bitch impounded claiming the sam
shall pay TO the Clerk of the corpor
alton the license fee as before set fortl
( and the fine of FIVE dollarc 20 e. -.