The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1926-06-01
soMERs POINT ORDINANCE.


AN ORDINANCE to provide for the
annual registration of dogs. regu-
lating and prohibiting their run
ming at large and providing for the
impounding and killing or other
wise disposing of dogs and fixing
certain penalties, and to impose
taxes on the owners or keepers of
dogs.
Section 1. Be it Ordained by the
Common Council of the City of Som
ers Point. that every owner of, or
person who harbors or keeps a dog
within the limits of the City of Som
ers Point, shall report to the City
Clerk annually, within thirty DAYS
after the first day of January of each
year. his orNher name and address,
and shall give the name, breed, color
and sex Of each and every dog owned
or kept by such person, and shall
pay to the said City Clerk the sum
of one dollar for each and every dog,
and cause such dog or dogs to be
registered for license in the office of
the said City Clerk, who shall fur
nish the owner or keeper thereof
with a license tag or tags. the shape
of which shall be changed each year
and shall have stamped upon it the
year in which granted and the num-
Der of the tag. together with the
words "Somers Point Dog Ii
cenSe".
Section 2. Be it further Ordained
that the City Clerk shall keep a reg
iStry book in which he shall enter
the name and address Of the owner
or keeper Of said dog or dogs, a de-
scriptiOn of the dog, and the humber
of the license tag issued.
Section 8. Be it further Ordained
that every dog shall he provided by
its owner or keeper with a leather
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tag shall be securely fastened, and
every dog shall be muzzled if SO or
dered as hereinafter provided. No
dog shall be permitted to remain
within the city limits OF the City of
Somers Point unless registered, IL
censed and tagged. and muzzled. il
so ordered. and any owner or keep
or muzzle. If muzzle is reouired'
shall be subject to the fines or pen
atty hereinafter provided.
Section 4. Be it further Ordained
that whenever the Mayor of the CITY
of Somers Point shall deem it neces-
sary so to do. he shall issue an order
prohibiting for certain time therein
specified, all dogs from running at
large on any or all streets. highways
or other public places in the City Of
Somers Point unless such dog be led
by line or chain so as to prevent
them from biting persons upon the
said streets. highways or public pla-
ces, and said Mayor may also order
that all dogs must be muzzled during
such times as he may direct, which
orders shall be published at least
once in a newspaper circulating in
the City of Somers Point, for the
execution and observance of which
order the Mayor is hereby authoriz-
ed to take such action as he may
deem advisable and necessary.
Section 5. Be it further Ordained
that. it shall be the duty of the dog
catcher, whose compensation shall be
fixed from time to time by resolution
of Council. to take up and impound
in suitable place to be designated
by the Mayor (of which place the
Mayor shall give public notice by
posting notice designating such
pound in the City HalD any deg
found running at large contrary to
the provisions of this ordinance or
the order of the Mayor. If so direct
ed by the Mayor it shall also be the
duty of the police officers of the
City of Somers Point to take up and
impound any dog found running at
large contrary to the provisions of
this ordinance or order of the Mayor.
Section 6. Be it further Ordained