The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1926-05-18
soMERs POINT ORDINANCE

lating and prohibiting Their run
ming at large and providing Tor the
lmpoundlng and killing or other
wise disposing of dogs and fixing
certain penalties, and to impose
taxes on the owners or keepers OF
dogs.
Section l. 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 or her name and address,
n 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
nlSh the owner or keeper thereof
with a license tag or tags, the shane
OF which shall be changed each year
and shall have stamped upon 1.-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
lStry book IN which he shall enter
the. name and address of the owner
or keeper OF said dog OF dogs, a de-
scriptlon OF the dog, am the number
OF n license tag issued.
Section 3. Be it further Ordained
h a every dog shall be provided by
It's owner or keeper with a leather
or chain collar to which said license
tag shall be securely fastened. and
every dog shall be muzzled if SO Or
dered az hereinafter provided. No
dog shall be permitted to remain
Somers Point unless registered, Ii
censed and tagged, and muzzIed, if
so ordered, and my owner or keep
er failing to provide such collar, tag
or muzzle, If muzzle is required.
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 DIN shall deem it neces-
sary so to do, he shall issue an order
prohibiting for a 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 a 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 s.. Be it further Ordained
hat it shall be the duty of the dog
lnatnhar NhnCa GO fjnn shall h.
fixed from time to time by resolution
of Council, to take up and impound
in a suitable place to be designated
by the Mayor (of which place the
Mayor shall give public notice by
posting a notice designating such
pound in the City HalD any d,g
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
Section 6. Be it further Ordained
that the said Poundkeeper shall, up
on receiving any dog at the pound,
make a registry of it's breed, color,
sex and whether licensed or not, and
il licensed shall forthwith enter in a
JUN VI IS6iSleT lHe NUMBER OF the
said dog shown upon the said license
tag, and a list of the numbers of all
licensed dogs impounded shall be
sent to the City Clerk within twenty
four hours after any dog is received,
and the City Clerk shall therGypon
give notice through the post office
to such owner or keeper of said dog
that the said dog is impounded.
Section 7. Be it further Ordained
that for every dog taken up and inn
pounded for which no license tag
shall have been issued, a redemption
fee of n dollar together with the
amount required to be paid for a IL
cense to the City Clerk as provided
in section n hereof, shall be paid
to the City Clerk for the use of the
City, upon the payment of which a
certificate setting forth such pay
ment, shall be issued by the said
Clerk; and the pound keeper, upon
the presentation thereof and the pay
ment to him of the cost of keeping
such dog, which shall not exceed one
dollar per day, and the cost of adver-
Using, if any, shall deliver said dog
to said owner or keeper thereof, pro-
vided such certificate be presented
within five days from the date of i'm
pounding. and may deliver said dog
to any other person or persons pre-
senting such certificate after the ex-
piration of said five days: and if the
said dog shall not be redeemed with
in five days after such impounding
said pound keeper shall kill such dos
in a humane manner; provided, fur
Their. however, that no licensed dog
shall be killed until five days after
keeper of licensed dogs impounded
in a newspaper circulating in the
City of Somers Point.
Section s. Be it further Ordained
that if any dog for which license
shall have been paid. has been i'm
pounded for being at large without a
license tag, and it appears by affida
Wit of the owner or keeper that a
license was taken out and a collar
put on said dog to which the license
tag was attached, but that such col
lar or tag had been accidentally lost,
the owner or keeper of said dog may
redeem the same upon the payment
to the City Clerk of the sum of sew
enty-five cents and the further sum
of fifty cents for another tag.
Section 8. Be it further Ordained
that any police officer shall have
power to kill any dog which may be
found in the City of Somers Poin
which may be found running at large
without a license or which may be
found running at large afflicted with
rabies; provided that no dog shall be
subject to molestation under this or
dinance or under any order of the
Mayor while on the premises of its
owner or keeper or while held or led
by a chain or line by n person.
Section 10. Be it further Ordained
that upon complaint to the Police
Justice of the City of Somers Point
that any dog has in any tanner dis
turbed the quiet of any %person-or
neighborhood, or has bitten a person
within this City, which person so
bitten was not trespassing upon the
nremises of the owner II keeper OF
the dog. the said Police Justice shall
issue a summons returnable in not
less than two nor more than fifteen
DAYS. and upon the return thereof
the said Police Justice shall hear and
determine the matter. and if it shall