|
|
CHAP. 649
Title vested in
Mayor and
Council,
|
and Council, who shall have full power and authority to pro-
tect and preserve the same, and to proceed at law or in
equity as may be right, to recover the possession thereof or
recover damages for trespass upon or injury to the same or
to prevent injury thereto, and as well as by ordinance to
provide penalties for injuries thereto.
Section 215 I. For every male dog and for every female
dog which may be kept or harbored within the corporate
|
|
|
|
Yearly tax to
be paid on
dogs.
|
limits of Pocomoke City a yearly tax shall be paid; for every
male dog a yearly tax of one dollar and for every female dog
a yearly tax of two dollars shall be imposed; and on and
after the passage of this Act no dog, male or female, shall
be kept or harbored within said town unless a permit or
license shall be applied for and obtained authorizing the
keeping or harboring thereof; the year for which permits
or license are to be issued shall be reckoned from the
first day of May, inclusive, in one year, to the first day
of May, exclusive, in the next year. The owner of a dog
kept and harbored in said town, and when a different
person, the tenant or controlling occupant of a premises
where the dog is kept or harbored, shall be equally
bound to take out such permit or license, and where
a married woman is the tenant or controlling occupant of
said premises and her husband resides therein with her,
the husband and wife shall both be bound. No permits or
license shall in any case be issued unless a tax is duly paid on
issuing the same. All permits or licenses shall be authenti-
cated by the signature of the town clerk and the corporate
seal. If any dog, whether male or female, shall be kept or
harbored in said town for ten days in any year, as the year
is herein defined, without a license or permit being taken out
thereof, the owner of such dog and the tenant or controlling
occupant of the premises where the same is kept or har-
|
|
|
|
Guilty of mis-
demeanor.
|
bored shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction
thereof before a justice of the peace for Worcester county,
or in the Circuit Court of said county, such parties shall be
fined three dollars for every offense, and shall be adjudged
to pay the costs and to stand committed until the fine and
costs are paid; if at the end of any such case the evidence
shows that the dog has been kept or harbored in the town
or two days, the burden shall be on the defendant of show-
ing that it has not been so kept or harbored for ten days; the
|
|
