HomeMy WebLinkAbout1962-08-27 212-P ORDINANCEIntroduced by Councilor Gross, Aug. 271 1962
CITY OF BANGOR
(TITLE.) (ffirDItlMIr94 Licensing and Control of Doga ..... __.
Be it orda by W City CosmoU ofthe City olBangeo as follamr:
THAT the Revised Ordinances of the City of Sargon as amended be
further amended by adding a new Article as follows:
Chapter VII, Article 9 - Licensing and Control of Dogs.
Section 1 - Definitions
As used in this ordinance, unless the context otherwise indicates,
(a) "Doge shall be intended to mesa both male and female.
(b) "Owner" shall be intended to mean any person or persons,
firm, association or corporation owning, keeping, or harboring a
dog.
(c) "At large" shall be intended to mean off the promisee of
the owner, and not under the control of the owner or a member of
his immediate family either by leash, cord, chain or otherwise.
Section 2 - License Required
On or before the let day of April of each year, the owner or
keeper of any dog 6 months old or over shall apply to the city clerk
either orally or in writing for a license for each such dog owned
or kept by him. Such application shall state the breed, s color
and markings of such dogs and the name and address of the last
previous owner.
A fee of $1.15 shall be paid the city clerk for each license
issued on male dogs, and a fee of $5.15 shall be paid for all
female dogs capable of bearing young. All female doge shall be
considered capable of producing young unless a certificate issued
by the commissioner of agriculture and signed by a licensed
veterinarian, or previous license record, Ie'. presented from a
licensed veterinarian stating that such female was made incapable
of bearing young by spaying by him. Hdsn suchcertificate accom-
panies the application, a fee of $1.15 shall then be paid on such
spayed females. In addition to the amount paid for license and tag,
each applicant stall pay the city clerk 2$e for the recording and
212–P IN CITY COUNCIL
_ Dec. 260 1962
fy� OgOINANCE Voted to remain on table.
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n. 14, 1963
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IN CITY CGUNCII, N. advertise a public hearing to be held
Avg. 27, 1962 Jan. 28, 1963. Tabled.
Referred to Public Safety
Committee, tabled.
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IN CITY COUNCIL
Sept. 10, 1962
Taken from table, retabled.
ITY ENK
IN CITY CONCIL
Sept. 24, 1962
Voted to remain on table.
TY CLYK
IN COW CIL
0tB, 1962
Voted
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CITf COUNCIL
Jan. 29, 1963963
MIS prce is ccv'acti Taken from table, 9" to"9 held, amended
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15 rt or". by deleting Me, toads llowicipel
Court or". Then Gaol by Councilors v following
_ and n Vote: n,Dnsmo Voting yes:
Barry, Conti, Delano, Dinsmore, Higgins,
Nanlett. Councilors Voting no: Bailey,
Brountes and Grose.
1.
Committee on
%rtgroSsp3 Ordnpmes.
IN CITY CU.NCIL IN CITY COUNCIL
Oct. 229 1962 Nov. 26, 1962
Voted to remain on table. Voted to remain do
CIT LINK
OUNCIL
Feb. 11, 1963
Taken from table. ■rarimgrl:rfd a motto
to pass failed by the following yes an
bable.e0 vote: Councilors voting yes: Barry,
Dinsmore, Ross. Councilors voting n
no vote:
Nov. 14, 1962 Dec. 30, 1962 aaniett. wunc llor contl voting no.
caldlinVoted to remain on table. 'Voted to xemaiv on table, e This ordinancewas then amended by
�( CITY CLINK deleting (c) f Sec. 1, Sec. 5 in its
V entirety, and all of the 3rd paragraph
of Sec. T; also, in Sec. Y, the roach
CLERK C W.ERK n the first sentence "or doge found
running at large"; Sec. 5 to xema in as
a reserve section. Tabled.
IN CITY COUNCIL
Feb. 25, 1963
Taken from table, passed tat reading by
the following yes and no vote:
Councilors voting vast Bailey, Brountas,
Conti, Delano, Dinsmore, Gross, Higgins,
Banlett. Councilor voting no: Barry.
Tabled.
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IN CITY COUNCIL
March 11, 1963
Taken from table, passed second reading
by the following yes and no vote:
Councilors voting vest EEIIE¢, Conti,
Delano, Dinsmore, Gross, Higgins, Banlett.
Councilor voting not Barry. Councilors
absent Bailey and Brountae.
CITY (BFlil:
212-P
Licensing and Control of Dogs
IN CITY COUNCIL
March 11, 1963
This ordinance having received two
readings on separate dates, being
properly certified as correctly engrossed,
as finally PASS® by the following yes
and no vote: Councilors voting yes:
Conti, Delano, Dinsmore, Gross, Higgins,
Hanlett. Councilor voting n Barry.
Councilors Bailey and Beountas absent.
making a return to the commissioner of agriculture, except that a
license and tag shall be issued by the city clerk, upon applica-
tion, for any trained gilds dog owned or kept by a blind person
without payment of any fee required under this section. When any
such dog has not been previously registered or licensed by the
city clerk to wham such application is being made, such city clerk
shall not register such dog nor issue to the owner or keeper a
license and tag therefor unless written evidence shall be exhibited
to him that the dog is trained and educated and intended in the
fact to perform such guide service for Such applicant.
Section 3 - City Clerk to Keep Records
Such license shall be made in triplicate, the original shall
be mailed to the commissioner of agriculture, 1 copy given to the
person applying for the license and 1 copy retained by the city
clerk.
Section 4 - Tag and Collar Required
A suitable tag showing the year such license is issued and
bearing such other data as the commissioner of agriculture may
prescribe shall be given to each license and must be securely
attached to a leather or metal collar which must be worn at all
times by the dog for which the license was issued and it shall be
unlawful for any person to remove such tag or to place either
collar or tag on any dog not described or for which the license
was not issued.
Section 5 - Running at Large
No person shall cause or permit any dog owned or kept by him
to run at large within the City.
Dogs while onany public way or place shall be under the
restraint, within the meaning of this ordinance, if he is con-
trolled by a leash, or at "heel", beside a competent person and
obedient to that personws commands or on Cr within a vehicle
being driven or parked on the streets, or within the property
limits of its owner or keeper. Nothing in this ordinance shall
be held to require the leashing of any dog while on private
premises.
A leash shall not be more than 8 feet long.
Section b - Bitch 1n Heat
The owner of any bitch in heat shall keep the same confined
or on a leash at all times and shall not permit such dog to be at
large within the City or on any premises other than those of the
owner. Every bitch found running at large in violation hereof is
hereby declared to be a public nuisance and shall be impounded
and the owner, keeper, or person harboring such bitch shall be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.
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Section 7 - Impoundment
Unlicensed dogs, or dogs found running at large shall be
taken up and impounded in the shelter designated by the City as
the City Animal Shelter, and there confined in a humane manner
for a period of not leas than 14 days; and may thereafter be
disposed of in a humane manner if not claimed by their owners.
The City or its duly authorized agent may transfer title of
all animals held by it at its Animal Shelter after the legal
detention period has expired and the animal has not been claimed
by its owner.
When dogs are found running at large, and their ownership is
known, such dogs need not be impounded, but the City through its
duly authorized agents may, at its discretion, cite the owners of
such dogs to appear in court to answer charges of violation of
this Ordinance.
The owner shall be entitled to resume possession of any
impounded dog upon compliance with the license provisions of
Section 2 of this Ordinance and the payment of impoundment fees
as set forth herein. Any other animal impounded under the pro-
visions of this ordinance may be reclaimed by the owner upon pay-
ment of the impoundment fees as set forth herein.
Any animal impounded under the previsions of this Ordinance
and not reclaimed by its owner within 14 days, may be humanely
destroyed or placed in the custody of some person deemed to be a
responsible and suitable owner, who will agree to comply with The
provisions of this Ordinance.
Section 8 - Impoundment Fees
Any animal impounded hereunder may be reclaimed as herein
provided upon payment by the owner of the following fees:
Impoundment fee of $2.00 for each animal, except that
upon the second impoundment the fee shanbe$5.00 and
upon the third and all subsequent impoundments of the
same animal the fee shell be $10.00, plus board in the
amount of $1.00 per day for each dog.
Section 9 - Number of Dogs Limited
It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to keep or
harbor within the City more than three doge over six months old
on April 1st, in or about any premises, house, barn or other
building, or in or about all buildings on any one premises occupied
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by any one family, and the keeping or harboring of dogs as afore-
said, is hereby declared to be a nuisance.
The payment of a license or licensee on doge shall not be
construed to allow the keeping of more than three dogs, as afore-
said, on any one premises.
This limitation shall not apply to any person, group of
persons, or corporations engaged in the commercial business of
breeding, buying, selling, or boarding of dogs, or operating a
veterinary hospital.
Section 10 - Barking or Howling Dogs
No person shall own, keep or harbor any dog which, by laud,
frequent, or habitual barking, howling, or yelping, shall disturb
the peace of any person or persona.
Section 11 - Dangerous Dogs
A dangerous dog is hereby defined to be a dog which shall
use reasonable fear of bodily injury to any person by attack-
ing or threatening to attack such person. Any such dog is hereby
declared to be a nuisance. The owner of any dangerous dog shall
keep the same confined in a secure enclosure or on a chain or
leash controlled by the owner or his agent at all times and shall
not permit such dog to be at large within the City.
Section 12 - Disposition of Doge which have Bitten Persons
It shall be unlawful for the owner or persons keeping, or
harboring any dog, when notified that such dog has bitten any
person or has so injured any person as to cause abrasion of the
skin, to sell or give away such dog or to permit or allow such
dog to be taken beyond the limits of Na City, except under the
care of a licensed veterinarian. It shall be the duty of such
owner or keeper upon receiving notice of the character aforesaid,
to immediately place such dog under confinement for a period of
at least 14 days, or to deliver such dog to the Police Department.
The Director of Public Health shall be notified immediately by
the person in charge of the death of any dog while under confine-
ment.
The City Veterinarian shall investigate all dog bites referred
to him by the Police Department or the Health Department.
Any dog which shall have been bitten by another dog having
or suspected of having rabies shall be Immediately impounded for
observation as provided in this section.
It shall be unlawful for the owner or person keeping or
harboring any dog when notified that such dog has bitten any person
or has so injured any person as to cause abrasion of the skin
to destroy such animal without permission from the City of
Bangor Department of Health.
Section 13 - Rabies ,
Open a positive diagnosis of rabies in any dog within the
City, the Chairman of the Council shall proclaim and invoke a
City-wide quarantine for a period of thirty days, and upon the
invoking of such quarantine, no animal shall be taken into the
streets, or be permitted to be in the streets., during such period
of quarantine,
During such period of rabies quarantine as herein described,
every animal bitten by an animal adjudged to be rabid, shall be
forthwith destroyed, or at the owner's expense and option, shall
be treated for rabies infection by a licensed veterinarian, or
held thirty days under quarantine by the owner in the same manner
as other animals are quarantined.
In the event there are additional positive cases of rabies
curing during the period of quarantine, such period of quarantine
may be extended by the Chairman of the Council for an additional
six months.
The carcase of any dead animal exposed to rabies shall upon
demand be surrendered to the Director of Public Health,
The Director of Public Health shall direct the disposition of
any animal found to be infected with rabies.
No person shall fail or refuse to surrender any animal for
quarantine or destruction as required herein when demand is made
therefore by the Director of Public Health.
Section 14 - When Dogs may be Killed
If any dangerous, fierce, or vicious dog cannot be safely
taken up and Impounded, such dog may be slain by any policeman
or duly authorized animal control officer. In all cases where
any dog which has bitten a person, or caused sn abrasion of the
skin of any person is slain by any policeman whether by order of
the court or otherwigoOnd a period of lees than flf teen days
has elapsed since the day on which such dog bit any person or
caused an abrasion of the skin of any person, it shall be the
duty of the policeman slaying such dog to forthwith deliver the
carcass and brain to the Chief of Police who shall forward the
brain intact to the Director of Public Health.
Section 15 - Penalty
Whoever keeps a dog contrary to the provisions of this
ordinance shall be punished by a fine of not more than $25.00 to
be recovered by complaint before any Municipal Court or District
Court in the County where such owner or keeper resides.
CITY OP RANCOR
PUBLIC NOTICE
Notice is hereby given that there in now pending before the City Council the
following ordinance, (TITLE.) MINANOE, Licensing and Control of Doge, consisting of
no following vectio s, he" se ntfond by title enl t See. 1, Definitions; Seal 2,
Limme Requiredl Sec. 3, City Clerk to Keep Records; Sec. e, Tag and Collar Required;
Sea. 59 Running at Lar"I Bet. 6, Bitch in Heatl Sec. 7, IspwMyntI Sec. 89 Tchnou;d-
sent:Feeal Sec. 9, Rather of Doge L1Mitedl Sec. 109 Barking or Hwling Donal Sec. 11,
Dangerous Dogs; Sec. 129 Disposition of Dogs which haw Bitten Peraonq Sec. 13, Rabiosl
Sec. le, When Doge My he Ki11Wl Sea. L5, Penalty.
A Public hearing will Is held in the Council Row, City Hall, January 28, 1963
at 8100 o'clock P.M. All Persons for or against the approval of this ordlnanue my
be beard, if they desire.
PER ODER CITY COUNCIL
Jan. 18, 1963 Jay E. Alley, City Clerk
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