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HomeMy WebLinkAboutBy-law 3136 THE CORPORATION OF THE O' NSHIP OF PICKERING A By-law to prohibit the running at large of dogs within the Township of Picketing, to licence dogs, to provide for regulations of Dog Pound services, and to repeal By-law Number 2504° 1. In this By-law (a) ~dog~' means any dog, male or female. (b) ~'owner" of a dog includes any person who possesses or harbours a dog and "owna""and "owhed" 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 place and not under the control of any person.~.' (d) "Spayed Female" means a female dog which has been operated on by a licenced veterinarian to prevent conception. (e) ~Dog Kennel~ shall mean a kennel of pure-bred dogs registered in the Register of The Canadian Kennel Club, Incorporated. ~ 2. NO dog shall run at large and no person shall permit a dog owned by him to run at large in the Township of Pickering. ~ 3. No person shall keep or maintain any dog in the Township of Pickering unless such dog has been licenced and registered under this by-law and subject to the provisions of the Dog Tax and Live Stock and Poultry Protection Act wears a collar to which is affixed a dog tag issued for the current year for the said dog. 4. The owner of every dog in the Township of Pickering shall on or before the fifteenth day of February in each year pay to the Township of Picketing a licence fee in accordance with the following schedule: (a) licence fee for first male dog ............... $5.00 licence fee for a second male dog in a household ........ $7.50 licence fee for each additional male dog over two in a household ............ $15.00 (b) licence fee for first female dog ............. $8.00 licence fee for a second female dog in a household ....... $15.00 licence fee for each additional female over two in a household ............ $25.00 (c) Licence fee to cover all dogs in a dog kennel of pure-bred dogs in a registered kennel ......... $10.00 ~t~ (d) dogs shall be registered by their owners on or before the 15th day of February in each year on registration forms provided for the purpose° Dog owners shall provide the following information: (1) The name and address of the owner of the dog; (2) Name and description of the dog to be licenced; (3) Such further or other information as may be required by Council of the Township of Picketing. -2- II ,~ (e) the issuer of li cenc~s, upon payment of the proper licence fee, shall issue to the owner of every dog a tag having inscribed upon it s serial number and the year for which it was issued, and the said issuer of licences shall also i~sue to the owner of a dog so licenced a receipt for the licence fee so paid and the licence shall expire on the thirty-first day of December of the year for which it was issued. ~l~ (f) the licence fee paid pursuant to subsections (a) or (b) or (c) of this section shall be applied only in respect to the dog licence for which the said fee was paid and shall not be transferable, nor shall the dog tag issued for a dog be used for or affixed to the collar of any dog other than the dog for which it was issued. I/ ~ (g) the owner of a dog which has been duly licenced and registered under this by-.law may obtain a dog tag to replace a dog tag which has been lost upon payment of a fee of twenty-five cents° M 5. No person shall allow his doE to become a nuisance nor permit it to howl or bark excessively. Any person so aggrieved may appear before a Justice of the Peace and swear out an Information on charging the owner with a breach of this section. l~ 6. Any person shall be entitled to take charge of any dog found running at large and deliver the same to the Dog Control Officer of the Township of Pickering. ~ 7. Any unlicenced dog or any dog found running at large contrary to any provisions of this By-law shall be impounded. (a) the dog pound of the Township of Pickering shall be open for the purpose of returning and retrieving dogs between the hours of ~:00 p.m. and 2:00 p.m. and also between 8:O0 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. Monday to Friday and between 9:00 a.m~ and 11:OO a.m. on Saturdays. (b) the dog pound shall be closed on Sundays. ~ 8. Any dog found running at large may be lodged in the dog pound and shall be fed and watered for a period of not more than seventy-two (72) hours plus days that the pound is closed, after the owner has been notified~ wherever possible, that the dog bas boen com_mittnd to the pound. 9. The Control Officer of the Township of Picketing shall ~3~g within twenty-four (24) hours f~om the seizure of any dog bearing a tag, or within twenty-four (24) hours from the time any dog bearing a tag is taken into the dog pound, when possible, notify the owner of the seizure with the exception of Sundays. ~/ ~ (a) if the owner of any dog impounded that bears a tag fails to claim his or her dog or dogs ~nd pay the Townsh~~ of Pickering a Three Dollar ($3.OO) impounding fee together with a charge of Two Dollars and Fifty Cents ~$2.50) per day or any part of a day such dog or dogs shall be held for not more than twenty-four (24) hours and shall be disposed of and the owner shall have no recourse against the Municipality or the Dog Control Officer.  (b) should dog be impounded by the Dog Control Officer any more than once in any one calender year, the owner, shall pay to the Township of Picker~ng an impounding fee of Five Dollars ($5.00) and Five Dollars ($5.OO) for each day or part of a day that the said dog is held by the Dog Control Officer before the dog is released to him. -3- '~ (c) the fee for picking up a dog and disposing of, or selling same through the services of the Dog Control Officer shall be Five Dollars ($5.00). 10. If there is no tag on any dog seized or taken or put into the dog pound, the Dog Control Officer shall destroy it at the end of a seventy-two (72) hours period plus days that the pound is closed, if same has not in the meantime been sold or claimed. 11. Dogs that have to be destroyed at the end of the seventy-two (72) hours period shall be destroyed or disposed of in such manner as Council may from time to time by resolution direct. 12. No dog shall be returned to the owner unless it has been licenced in accordance with the provisions of this by-law, and 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. 13. A penalty of not more than Fifty Dollars ($50.00) exclusive of costs shall be imposed upon every person who contravenes any of the provisions of this by-law and every such penalty shall be recoverable under the provisions of the Summa~ Convictions Act. lt. This by-law shall be effective as of the First day of April, 1966. 15. By-law Number 2504 is hereby repealed. READ A THIRD TIME AND FINALLY PASSED THIS /~ day of ~~ 1966. Reeve. ~