360 ARTICLE 56.

263.

See notes to sec. 259.

264.

See notes to sec. 259.

1927, ch. 152, sec. 266.

266. If any part or parts of this sub-title, or of any section thereof,
shall be held to be unconstitutional, such unconstitutionality shall not
affect the validity of the remaining parts of this sub-title, or of any sec-
tion thereof. The Legislature hereby declares that it would have passed
the remaining parts of this sub-title, or of any section thereof, if it had
known that such part or parts thereof, or of any section thereof, would be
declared unconstitutional.

DOG LICENSES IN THE COUNTIES.

An. Code, 1924, art. 81, sec. 206. 1918, ch. 497, sec. 195.
1929, ch. 226, sec. 267 (p. 708).

267. On or before the first day of July, 1918, and on or before the
first day of July of each year thereafter, the owner of any dog, six months
old or over, shall apply either orally or in writing, to the County Treas-
urer or Clerk to the County Commissioners in Counties having no Treas-
urer of the county in which he or she resides or to a Justice of the Peace
of any district in said county for a license for each such dog owned, or
kept by him, and such application shall be accompanied by a fee of one
dollar ($1. 00) for each male dog or each spayed female dog, and a fee of
two dollars for each unspayed female dog, and provided that a kennel li-
cense shall be issued for ten dollars ($10. 00) to persons owning or keeping
not in excess of twenty-five dogs and that a kennel license fee of twenty
dollars ($20) shall be issued to persons keeping more than twenty-five
dogs. Provided, further, that in Talbot County the fee for a male dog
or a spayed female dog shall be $1. 50 and the fee for an unspayed female
dog shall be $3. 00. The said license or fee shall be the only license or
tax required for the ownership or keeping of said dog or dogs. Such li-
cense shall be issued on a form prepared and supplied by the County Com-
missioners. Such license shall be dated and numbered, and shall contain a
description of the dog licensed. All licenses shall be void upon the first
day of July of the following year. The County Commissioners shall also
furnish, and the county treasurer, or Justice of the Peace, issuing the li-
cense, shall issue, with each license, a metal tag. Such tag shall be affixed
to a substantial collar. The collar shall be furnished by the owner, and
with the tag attached shall at all times be kept on the dog for which the
license is issued, except when confined in the kennel or when hunting in
charge of an attendant.

This and the following sections are not applicable to Baltimore City—see sec.
273.