Ordinance 370
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ORDINANOE NO. 370
An Ordinanoe amending the Munioipal Code of the City of
Gilroy by amending Section 167 - 168 - 169 and 170 thereof,
relative to dogs running at large on the streets, and requiring
payment of a license for them.
The Mayor and Common Council of the Oity of Gilroy do
ordain as follows:-
Section 1.
Section 167 of the MUnicipal Code of the Oity of Gilroy is
hereby amended to read as follows:
Seotion 167. It shall be unlawful for any person owning
or having any interest in, harboring or having the care, charge,
control, oustody or possession of any dog to allow such dog to
go free or to run at large in or upon any public street, alley
or other public place, or in or upon any unenolosed lot or prem-
ises in the City of Gilroy, or suffer or permit such dog to be
on any public street, alley or other public place, or in or
upon any unenclosed lot or premises in the City of Gilroy unless
such dog be held or lead by a cord, chain, or other thing, or be
confined in a vehicle, without having first procured a license tag
from the Oity Clerk for said dog as hereinafter provided.
The term lIunenclosed lot or premises" as used in this ordinance
is hereby defined to mean any lot, land or premises not enclosed
in such a manner as to prevent any dog confined therein from es-
caping therefrom.
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Seotion 2.
Seotion 168 of the Minucipal Oode of the City of Gilroy is
hereby amended to read as follows:-
Seotion 168. It shall be the duty of the Oity Marshal to
appoint and deputize a Pound Master whose duty it will be to cauae
to be captured every dog going free and running at large in or
upon any public street, alley o~ other public place, or in or
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upon any unenclosed lot or other premises within the City of
Gilroy, not wearing a license tag as herein provided for, or in
case the Pound Master or any person by the City Marshal thereto
deputized, shall upon pursuit be unable to capture such dog, it
shall be the duty of said Pound Master or such deputy, to kill
such dog.
(a) It shall be the duty of the Oity Clerk to procure at
the expense of the City such number'"o:f tags as may be necessary
and issue the same to owners of dogs upon paying a license fee
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of $2100 per year for each male dog and $4.00 per year for each
female dogs. Owners purchasing said tags must attach them in a
secure manner to their dog or dogs. Said years herein referred
to shall end on November 1st, following the issuance of the tags,
and upon the face of the tag must appear the year during which
said tag is in force.
All dogs captured under the provisions of this qrdinance shall
be securely confined until redeemed.by the owner as herein provided,
or killed.
Section 3.
Section 169 of the Municipal Code of the City of Gilroy is
hereby amended to read as follows:~
Section 169. Whenever a dog is impounded for running at
large in said City in violation of Section 167 of the COde, it
may be redeemed by the owner, or person entitled to its possession
within 36 hours after impounding1upon presenting a license tag and
the payment to the Pound Master of the sum of $1.00, ~t:1X"~"l'XXllf.<<
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~~l1e~~:t."tIscmx:xg for impounding the dog and at the rate of
25 cents per day for feeding said dog, during the time impounded.
Section 4.
Section 170 of the Mmnicipal Code of the City of Gilroy is
hereby amended to read as follows:-
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Section 170. The Pound Master shall make a monthly report
of all dogs captured and redeemed or destroyed during the month,
pursuant to Section 167, 168, and 169 of the Municipal Code of
the Oity of Gilroy.
For each dog captured and destroyed by him, the Pound Master
shall receive from the City Treasury the sum of Two Dollars, which
shall be full compensation for capturing, keeping, destroying and
disposing of said dog, and for each dog captured and redeemed by
the owner, the Pound Master shall receive the sum of One Dollar,
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togebher with Twenty-five (25) cents per day for feeding said dog.
Section 5.
All ordinances or parts of ordinances in oonflict with any
of the provisions of this ordinance are hereby repealed.
Section 6.
Any person violating or wilfully non complying with any of
the provisions of this Ordinance is guilty of a misdemeanor
and upon oonviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not exceed-
ing One Hundred DOllars, or by imprisonment in the Oity prison not
exceeding thirty days or by both suoh fine and imprisonment.
Section 7.
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This Ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and
after November 1st, 1930.
Passed this 6th day of OctOber, 1930, by the following vote:
AYES: Councilmen J.H. Rush, Geo.Easton, Fred C. Boock,
S. D. Heck, Geo. M. Lawton.
NOES: Oounoilmen None.
ABSENT: Councilmen None.
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Oity Cler
1930.
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