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HomeMy WebLinkAboutORDINANCES - 03071921 - 0159 /1 or ORDINANCE NoO, 159 1 An Ordinance providing for the Con- having an interest in, harboring or trol and Eradication of Rabies in the having the care„ charge or control, custody or possession of a dog of the County of Contra Costa, levying tax age of ninety days or over, outside of on all dogs, and prescribing penal- any incorporated city in said County II ties for the violation of its provi- of Contra Costa, State of California. must, after the taking effect of this slops. ordinance, procure a license from the The Board of Supervisors of the Tax or License Collector of the said County of Contra Costa do ordain as County of Contra Costa for each dog follows: or dogs owned or kept within said Section 1. It shall be unlawful for county and pay therefor the following any person owning, h ving an interest annual tax or fee, towit• For each in, harboring or have the care, charge, male dog, $1.50; for -each female dog, control, custody or possession of a dog, --$2.50, for each neuter'dog, $1.50, to allow or permit such dog to go free Section 12. The license as provided and to run at large in or upon any in Section 11 of this ordinance shall be place outside of incorporated cities in payable to and collected by the Tax the County of Contra Costa unless or License Collector of said County of such dog is muzzled with a muzzle so Contra Costa on the first day of July as to entirely prevent the said dog of each year after the taking effect from biting any person or animal. of th's ordinance, provided, however, Section 2. All such muzzles or.ap- that no licenses shall be required from paratus for muzzling dogs shall be se- the time of the adoption of this ordin- curely strapped to the dog's head, and ante until July 1st, 1921. shall be so made and applied that the same will completely surround the jaw Section 13. Upon the payment of and nose of the dog on which the same the license or tax provided in Section is fastened, and be so as to prevent of ns� . ordinance, such Tax or Li- the dog from biting any person or cense Collector shall issue and deliver , thing, but so as to allow the opening to the person making such payment a of the mouth of such animal, and allow license showing the date when paid, it to breathe and drink with freedom. the amount paid, by whom paid, and Section 3. The Sheriff and-his depu- the• address of the party paying the ties, and every constable and his depu- same, also a description of the dog for ties, and every poundkeeper, and also which the same was paid and the num- any person employed for that purpose ber of such license, and shall at the by the Board of Supervisors, must, and same time deliver to such party a are hereby authorized and empowered leather, tin or metal tag bearing the to capture any dogs not muzzled, as serial number .and the year for which required by this ordinance, and found the same is issued. going free or running at large in or It is provided, further, that such upon any place within the County of leather, tin or metal license tag must, Contra Costa outside of incorporated in all cases and at all times, be fas- cities, or such officer or person shall tened to a substantial collar and worn be authorized and empowered to killaround the neck of the dog for which and destroy such dog. the tax or license is paid, said collar Section 4. Officers or persons cap- to be furnished by the party in posses- turing -dogs under the provisions of cion of the dog. If such leather, tin Section 3 may separately confine each or metal license tag is lost, it shall be dog captured by them in some safe replaced by the Tax or License Col- place, and shall report the capture to lector upon application by the person the County Health Officer, and shall to whom the original license was is- submit such dog to the examination of sued ,and upon the production of such the County Health Officer, or his reP- license and the payment of a fee of resentative, and it shall be the duty of twenty-five (25c) therefor. the County Health Officer, when call- Section 14. The Tax or License Col- ed upon, to examine or have examined lector shall pay over to the County such dog, and to ascertain whether or Treasurer the taxes or fees collected not such dog is affected with' rabies. unuer this system at the time and in Dogs captured under Section 3 shall the same manner as other license fees not be killed, but shall be kept in con- collected by him.finement until the Health Officer, or his representative, 'will find that fur- Section 15. Any dog upon which ther observation of the animal is not such license is unpaid, or upon which necessary for the determination of the the owner, claimant or keeper refuses presence or absence of rabies. or fails to pay such license may be Section 5.. Whenever the owner or lawfully killed by -any health officer, person having the custody or posses- euucy health officer or any peacContrae of- sion of the animal shall observe or fiver in tee such County of found running Cos- learn that such animal has shown ta, wheth h dog b symptoms of rabies, or has acted in a at large or upon private premises, and manner which would lead a reasonable it shall be lawful for any such officer ' man to a suspicion that it might havian have to son enter whomsoeveron the formises of the purpose eof rabies, such owner or persong the custody or possession of such ani- enforcing this ordinance. mal shall immediately notify Section tshall be cur Health Officer or his representative, any to er tosuch oandffiallcer or ps feacealth shall allow the Heexamwith- iinat on of in the ill limits of said dogontra ound Cos a make an inspection or such animal and to quarantine such County not wearing a license tag as animal until it shall be established to provided in Section 13. the satisfaction of said official that Section 17. Any person violating such animal has or has not rabies. any of the provisions of this ordinance Section 6, Whenever it is shown shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and that any dog has bitten any person, upon conviction thereof shall be pun- the owner or person having the cus- ished by a fine of not less than $25.00 tody or possession the shall, upon or not more than $200,00, or by impris- order of the Health Officer, quarantine onment in the county jail for a period it and keep it tied up or confined for of not more than 100 days, or by both a period of three weeks, and shall al- such fine and imprisonment. low the Health Officer or other offi- Section 18. Every health or peace tial of the Board of Health to make officer who kills any dog, as herein an inspection or examination thereof provided, shall bury or destroy the at any time during said period. same. Section 7. if it shall appear to the .Section 19. If any section, sub-sec- Section Health Officer or other official of the tion, sentence, clause, phrase or words Board of Health, upon examination of in this ordinance for any reason is the aforesaid or'otherwise, that a dog held unconstitutional or invalid, such or other animal has rabies, he shall decision shall not affect the validity kill it forthwith. of the remaining portions of this or- Section 8. Whenever any mal haul dinance, The Board of Supervisors shall be bitten by another a hereby declare that they have passed the owner or person having ing rabies, this ordinance and each section, sub- the custody or possession of the ani- section, sentence, clause, phrase and mal so bitten shall, upon being inword thereof, irrespective of the fact ed thereof, either kill such animal or that any one or more sections, sub- quarantine it, and keep it confined or sections, sentence, clause, phrase or +-Pry ��n fir a period of six months, and world be declared unconstitutional or j the Health Officer or other official of invalid. the Board of Health shall have power, Section 20. This ordinance is here- in his discretion, to kill or quarantine by declared to be an ordinance for the the animal so bitten, in case the owner immediate preservation of the public or person having custody or possession health and safety, and shall take ef- thereof shall fail to do so immediately, fect immediately, and prior to the ex- or in case the owner or person having iration of thirty days after the pas- the custody or possession thereof is sage thereof shall be published one not rurage a dog readily accessible. week in the Contra Costa Standard, a Section 9. No person shall take o newspaper of general circulation, pub- dog, or permit or encolished in said County of Contra Costa. go from a city or town in which rabieess The foregoing ordinance was passed exists, or has existed within six and adopted by the Board of Supervis- months previously, or from a place in ors of said County of Contra Costa at the county within five miles of which a regular session of said Board held rabies exists, or has existed within silt on the 7th day of March, 1921, by the ' months previously, to any county in or has following vote, towit` which rabies does not existresent�wit n Ayes-Supervisors Knott, Casey, not been known to be p Hayden, Buchanan and Trembath. six months. Noes-None. Section 10. No person shall bring a i Absent-None. dog into the county from a noun been (Seal) which rabies is �rresent or W. J. BUCHANAN, Chairman. known to be present within sig Attest:months. firm, co- J. H. WELLS, Clerk, Section 11. Every person, partnership or corporation owning or By Deputy Clerk.