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THE CORPORATION OF THE TOWNSHIP OF PICKERING
A By-Law to prohibit the running at large of dogs within the
Township of Pickering, to appoint a dog catcher, to establish a
dog pound and regulations required in connection therewith.
WHEREAS the Council of the Township of Pickering
deems it advisable that the running at large of dogs be
prohibited in the Township of Pickering, save as hereinafter provided.
AND WHEREAS the Council of the Township of
Pickering deems it advisable to appoint a dog catcher, to
establish a dog pound and to provide proper regulations in
connection therewith.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT ENACTED AND IT IS HEREBY ENACTED,
as a by-law of the Corporation of the Township of Pickering by the
Council thereof as follows:
1. In this By-Law
(a) "dog" means any dog male or female.
(b) "owner" of a dog includes any person who
possess or harbours a dog and "owns" and
"owned" have a corresponding meaning.
(c) "running at large" a dog shall be deemed
to be running at large when found on a
highway or other public or private place
and not being under the control of any
person.
2. No owner of any female dog shall allow or permit, while in
/?' heat, such dog to run at large within the limits of the Township
of Pickering.
3. No owner shall allow or permit any dog to run at large within
the limits of the Township of Pickering save and except farm dogs
used or employed in the care of cattle or sheep.
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4. No person shall allow their dog to become a nuisance (such
as by excessive barking, howling or unduly bothering pedestrians
,{1 or bicyclists on any road way). Any person so aggrieved may appear
before a Justice of Peace and swear out an information charging the
owner thereof with a breach of this section.
5. Any person shall be entitled to take charge of any dog found
running at large and deliver the same to the pound keeper in the
Township of Pickering or to a constable of the Township of
Pickering.
6. Any dog found breaking any of the provisions of this by-law
may be impounded.
7. (1) Clifford Schwalm is and he is hereby appointed dog catcher
for the Township of Pickering.
(2) The salary of the said dog catcher shall be fixed by the
Council of the Township of Pickering by by-law, from time to time,
n together with the mileage which shall be permitted him for the use
of his car when on Township business.
(3) The said dog catcher shall provide a dog pound located
in his present barn on the south half of Lot Number Thirty-two (32)
of the First Concession of the Township of Pickering. The manner
in which the dogs are kept and attended to in the said building shall
be as specified by the Sanitary Inspector or as may be directed by
the Board of Health.
(4) The said dog pound shall be opened daily between the
hours of six p.m. and eight p.m, local time, for receiving or
delivering of dogs.
$. All dogs found by the said dog catcher running at large on
public or private property not owned by the owner of the said dogs
and dogs not under control of any person, may be lodged in the dog
pound by the said dog catcher and he shall feed and water the said
dogs for a period of seventy-two (72) hours after he has notified
the owner that said dog or dogs have been committed to the pound.
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9. The dog catcher shall, within twenty-four (24) hours from
seizure of any dog or within twenty-four (24) hours from the time
00- any dog is taken into the dog pound, notify the owner of any dog
bearing a tag.
10. If the owner of said dogs impounded that bear tags fails to
claim his, or her, dog or dogs and pay the dog catcher one dollar
41 ($1.00) per day or part thereof, said dog or dogs shall be disposed
of at the end of the said seventy-two (72) hour period as herein-
after provided and the owner shall have no recourse against the
Municipality or dog catcher.
11. If there is no tag on any dog seized or taken or put in the
pound, the pound keeper shall dispose of any dog so seized or
00 impounded at the end of ninety-six (96) hours in the manner
hereinafter provided.
12. The pound keeper shall post up on a notice board in his
premises, a description of any dog seized or taken into the pound#
together with the name of the owner if known. He shall also notify
the Clerk of all seizures and the Clerk shall post up a similar
notice in or on the Municipal Building.
13. (1) Dogs that have to be destroyed shall be disposed of in
such manner as the Council may from time to time by resolution
direct.
(2) Dogs are to be destroyed at the end of the seventy-two
` (72) hour or ninety-six (96) hour period as above mentioned unless
a sale has been arranged or unless the pound keeper for any other
reason, with the approval of the Clerk in writing, decides that
the period should be extended.
14. Any dog believed to be vicious found in a public place or on
pa property other than that of the owner of the dog, may be shot by
'J the dog catcher in the presence of the chief constable of the
Township of Pickering, or his deputy, between sun-up and sun-down.
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15. (1) The dog catcher shall charge one dollar ($1.00) per
day for food for each dog reclaimed, of which amount he shall be
entitled to seventy-five (75) cents per day for dog food and remit
twenty-five (25) cents per day to the Municipality. If the dog or
dogs are not claimed, the dog catcher shall be paid fifty (50) cents
per day by the Municipality for each dog for food supplied.
(2) The dog catcher shall send a report by the end of each
month giving the details of dogs seized or taken into the pound,
the disposition made of the dogs and of any charges made and any
monies received and such further or other information as the Clerk
may require.
16. No dog shall be returned to the owner if it has not a tag
n for the current year. Any owner of a dog without a tag and any
purchaser of a dog shall obtain a tag for the current year before
delivery is made.
17. A penalty of not more than fifty dollars 050.00) exclusive
of costs shall be imposed upon every person who contravenes the
o provisions of this by-law and every such penalty shall be recoverable
under the provisions of The Summary Convictions Act.
18. This by-law shall be effective as of the date of the passing
of this by-law.
19. By-Laws numbers 1750 and 1$30 are hereby repealed.
By-law read a first, second and third time and finally passed this
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Twentieth day of A, 1954.
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