HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinances - No. 60ORDINANCE NO. 60
An Ordinance Giving the Board of Health Authority to Make
it Unlawful for Dogs To be upon or in Public Streets or ViaYs,or
to Run at Large Without Being Muzzled,
Ths Board of Trustees of the City of Lodi do ordain
as follows:
Sec.1-The Board of Health of the City of Lodi are hereby
empowered and directed,when in their judgment the public health
and safety demand,to require all dogs in the City of Lodi to be --
muzzled. -. '-.
Sec a.-lnIhen the Board of Health by resolution shall declare
that the public health and safety demand that all dogs in the City
of Lodi be muzzlcd,said Board must immediately post or oause to be
posted in at least ten public places in the City of Lodi a notice
stating the public necessity and requiring all dogs to be mluzzled
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hours wiihibn twenty-f.our fiom the posting of said notice. -
I_ After the expiratign of such time ,It
shall be unlawful and a misderfleanor for any person being the owner,
or having charge,care or control of any dog,to suffer,allow or
permit the same to be upon or in any public sireet,way,alley,park,
common or square in the said City of Lodi,or to run at large within
the corporate limits of said City,unless there is securely fastened
on the head of said dog a muzzle or contrivance sufficiently cover-
ing and enclosing the mouth of such dog to prevent the same from
biting,lace-?ting,or otherwise inflieting injury upon any person or
persons wltH %ts mouth or teeth.
Sec.3-The Board of Health may by resolution declare that
the necessity for the muzzling of dogs has ceased to exist,and shall
publish such resolution by posting ihe same in three public place#
in the City of Lodi.Thereupon it shall be lawful to permit dogs to
be at large without being muzzled.
Sec.4- Any dog found on or in any such public street,way,
alley, park,common or square,or running at large within the corporate
limits of said City,in violation of this ordinance may and shall be
impounded by the City Marshal or Pound Ma$ter,and held and disposed
of by him in acgordance with Sections 5,6,and 7 of Ordinance No 6
. of said City,and such Marshal or Pound Master shall receive the
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compensation therein named for his services rendered hereunder.
Sec,%Any violation of this Ordinance shall be punishable . .
by a fine not to exceed one hundred dollars,or by imprisonment not
exceeding one hundred days,or by both such fine and imprisonment.
See.6-This ordinance is hereby declared to be an ordinance
for the immediate preservation of the public peace,health and safety,
and shall take effect immediately after its passage,approval and
publication. /
Scc.’I-The City Clerk of the City of Lodi shall oertify to
the passage and approval 00 this ordinance and. cause this ordinance
to be published once in The Lodi Sentine1,a newspaper of general
circulation published in the City of Lodl..
---- I hereby sign and approve the foregoing ordinance this
I hereby raertify that the foregoing orclinance was read and
introduced for passage at an adjourned regular meeting of the Board
of Trustees of the City of LOdi,held on t!ie 26th.ddy of August,l912.
reafter,at a regular meeting of sald Board held on the
eptember,lY12,duly passed by the following vote:
dgett ,Hale,Lawrsnce and Rich. Noes: None. Absent :Black