THEODORE R. McKELDIN, GOVERNOR                     599

In order to secure a license for a spayed female, the applicant must
present for the inspection at the time of application, a certificate in
writing signed by a duly licensed veterinarian describing the dog
and stating that to his knowledge it has been spayed and the inspec-
tion of this certificate shall be noted on the license certificate and stub
for future reference by recording the veterinarian's name and ad-
dress thereon.

The above license is due and payable as follows:

(1)  On or before January 1st and not later than the first day of
February in each year, the owner or harborer of any dog four
months or older shall pay the license tax as above prescribed.

(2)  If a dog shall become four months of age or an unlicensed dog
of license age shall come into the possession of any person between
January 1st and November 1st of any year, the full license tax for
the current calendar year shall be paid forthwith by said owner.

(3)  If a dog shall become four months of age or an unlicensed dog
of license age shall come into the possession of any person between
October 31st and December 31st of any year, the license tag for the
succeeding calendar year shall be paid forthwith by said owner, and
owners of any other dogs subject to license may, at their option, on
and after November 1st renew such license for the succeeding cal-
endar year and such license shall protect all such dogs from the date
of such purchase.

A kennel license is meant to cover a pack or collection of dogs on
a single premises or location, however owned, whether maintained
for breeding, treatment, boarding, sale, training, hunting or other
purposes, and including pet shops where dogs and other animals are
on sale and the one license and the one tag securely fastened at a
prominent place on the enclosure shall cover all dogs there with the
limit of the license issued. Such license warrants, when under close
supervision, hunting dogs, or dogs for breeding purposes or sale, to
be taken from the kennel in similar manner but does not warrant any
dog kept at the kennel otherwise to leave its limits without an indi-
vidual license tag.

Kennel licenses are due and payable on or before January 1st and
not later than the February 1st in each year, or when beginning oper-
ations as a kennel and the license fee for kennels owning or keeping
not more than twenty dogs shall be fifteen dollars ($15.00) and for
each additional ten dogs or fraction thereof over twenty, the license
fee shall be increased five dollars ($5.00), and the names of all per-
sons and/or corporations owning, operating or interested in the
kennel at the time of taking the licenses shall be written on the back
of the certificate and the stub; and the name and address of the
owner of each dog kept in such kennel and a record giving full data
concerning sales or other disposition of dogs from such kennels or
shops shall be kept on file thereat and available for inspection by the
Warden or other peace officers at all times.

A kennel shall not be operated in such manner as to defraud the
Dog License Commission of the license fee applying to dogs which
cannot legally be covered thereunder or in any manner to violate
other provisions of this sub-title; the primary purpose of a kennel
license being to relieve owners of dogs kept at a kennel and never
being allowed to run at large from the necessity of taking out in-
dividual licenses for such dogs.