Amend Section 1 of Ordinance No. 2865 for Establishing of a Dog Pound and Registration of Dogs and othe Animals

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ORDINANCE NO. J 0 /0_ AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND SECTION ONE OF ORDINANCE NO. 2865 BEING AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR THE ESTABLISHING OF A DOG POUND AND FOR THE REGISTRATION OF DOGS,BITCHES AND OTHER ANIhIALS OF THE CANINE SPECIES; FOR THE INOCULATION OF SUCH DOGS WITH AN APPROV- ED AND RECOGNIZED ANTI - RABIES SERUM; PROHIBITING ALL DOGS FROI? RUNNING AT LARGE IN THE CITY OF SOUTH BEND, INDIANA, UNLESS SO INOCULATED OR T!UZZLED; PROVIDING I^_EANS FOR IDENTIFYING DOGS SO REGISTERED AND INOCULATED; PROVIDING THAT DOGS SO INOCULATED 11AY UNDER CERTAIN CONDITIONS RUN AT LARGE; PROVIDING THAT ANY DOG RUNNING AT LARGE AND NOT SO INOCULATED AND PROPERLY TAGGED OR INZZLED IIfAY BE IITPOUNDED UPON FAILURE OF THE OWNER TO REDEEM THE SAME; AND APPROPRIATING TWENTY -FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS FROH 'ME GENERAL FUND OF THE CITY OF SOUTH BEND, INDIANA, AND THE BOARD OF PUBLIC SAFETY FOR THE SALARY OF A DOG POUND nASTER, AND FOR THE EC,UIPP,4ENT AND OPERATION OF SAID POUND, AND PROVIDING A PENALTY FOR THE VIOLATION OF THIS ORDINANCE AND REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT HEREWITH. ADOPTED June 231 1930. BE IT ORDAINED by the Common Council of the City of South Bend, Indiana, as follows: SECTION 1. That Section 1 of the above said ordinance, No. TTU , passed on 23rd day of June, 1930, be amended to read as follows: Section 1. That it shall be the duty of every person own- ing any Tog within the corporate limits of the City of South Bend, Indiana, over the age of three months, and desiring to permit said dog to ran at large, to register said animal with the Board of Public Safety of the City of South Bend, Indiana; and it shall be the duty of the said official to record, in a book kept for that purpose, the name and address of the owner of said dog, a brief description of said animal and the registration number assigned to said animal; provided that when any dog is registered in the office of the Board of Public Safety after said animal has been inoculated by a licensed .veterinarian with an approved and recognized anti - rabies selu m, and a certificate certifying to such inoculation shall be presented to the clerk of said Board signed by such licensed veterinarian showing that said animal has been inoculated. The clerk of said Board of Public Safety shall furnish the owner of such animal at the time of registration with registration receipt, and with a metal tag bearing a serial number which shall be attached to said animal's collar; which shall in- dicate the registration year for which said license has been issued. The license and registration fee shall be One Dollar 41.00) per year for each dog, Provided that the said Board shall charge, in addition to the above sum, the sum of Twenty - five Cents (0.25) for each duplicate metal tag issued as here - inbefore provided. Said metal tag shall have stamped thereon a number correspond- ing to the registration number of the dog so licensed, as shown on said record book. For each registration year the tag shall be of a different shape. Said license and tag shall not be transferable to any other animal than the one registered. On or before the first day of January, 1934, and the first day of January of each year thereafter, dogs within the City of South Bend shall be licensed for the twelve months following such date which is defined as the registration year; provided that dogs becoming of the age of three months in any registra- tion year or which shall be brought into the city by their owner during any registration year shall be licensed within