The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1918-02-21
LEGAL PUBLICATIONS
ORDINANCE NO. 2o2

ORDINANCE NO. 202
AN ORDINANCE REGULATING
THE OWNING AND HARBORING
AND PROHIBITING THE RUN
MING AT LARGE OF DOGS
WITHIN THE CITY OF KENNE-
WICK, PROVIDING A PENALTY
FOR THE VIOLATION THEREOF
AND FIXING A LICENSE FEE.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF KENNEWICK DO ORDAIN AS
FOLLOWS:
Section THAT it shall be unlawful
for any person or persons to own or
harbor any dog within the corporate
limits of the City of Kennewick, un-
less such person or persons shall first
procure license therefor, as herein
after provided.
Section Pit shall be unlawful for
any person or persons to permit any
dog to run at large within the corpor-
ate limits of the City of Kennewick
Section 3The annual license fee
for the license required in Section /
hereof is hereby fixed at two dollars
per annum for each dog. Upon the
payment of such license fee to the City
Clerk, it shall be the duty of said City
Clerk to issue a license to the party
making the application therefor. Said
license shall expire on the first day of
March next succeeding the date of the
issuance thereof. The annual time for
issuing of licenses hereunder shall be-
gin on the second day of March of each
year and no license shall be issued to
expire at any other time than the
above date.
The City Clerk shall furnish with
shall be worn by the dog for which
such license is issued.
Section All dogs owned or har-
bored within the corporate limits of
the City of Kennewick without IL
cense tag for the current year as
herein provided, and all dogs found
running at large within said corporate
limits, are hereby declared to be a
public nuisance and it shall be the duty
of the Chief of Police to kill such dog
or dogs.
Section Sit shall be the duty of
the City Clerk to promptly register all
licenses issued under this ordinance
in the License Book of the City, fur
nished for this purpose.
Section 6-The Board of Health of
the City of Kennewick may, in its
discretion and for the public safety,
require any or all dogs owned or har-
bored in the City of Kennewick to be
muzzled. The said Board of Health
shall give notice in writing to any per-
son or persons owning or harboring
any dog or dogs, in which notice they
shall specify their requirements under
this section. In the event that such
requirement applies to all dogs in the
said City, notice may be given by pub
LEGATION at least once in the official
newspaper of the said City, or by post
ing notices in three public places
therein. The owner or harborer of
any dog or dogs shall Immediately
comply with the provisions of such
order of the Board of Health.
Section Amy person who owns
or harbors any dog or dogs or permits
the same to run at large in violation
Of sections 1, 2 and hereof, shall be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and
upon conviction thereof, shall be fined
in any sum not less than five dollars
nor more than fifty dollars, and the
cost Of such prosecution.
Section 89This ordinance shall be
in full force and effect five days from
and after its passage, approval and
publication in the official newspaper
Of said City.
PASSED by the City Council this
18th day of. February, 1918.
APPROVED this 10th day Of Feb
ruary, 1918.
GEO. w. SHERK, Mayor.
Attest: M. E. SOTH, City Clerk.
fSEAL)
NOTICE OF SPECIAL. EIrc.r1oN