Ordinance 164 R-D I X"M 4
AN ORDINANCE OF THP, CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF T�IIA��I BEACH, FLORIDA, R2AKING IT UNLAWFUL
FOF. DOGS TO RUN AT LARGE WITHOUT WEARING A
TAG; PROVIDINCx F0�^ TKE ISSUATIC�+' OF SUCH TAGS
BY TIPI CITY CLERK; FIXING A FEM TO BE PAID
THEREFOR; PROVIDING FOR THE 13111 ?ISON117,11T OF
DOGS AND TT DISPOSI'iION THF MF; PROVIDING
FOR TIPP, ISSUANCE OF A PROCLA11A'-'ION BY THE
A:IAYOR PROHIBITING DOGS FRO11 RUNNING AT LARGE
AND PROVIDING A PENALTY FOR THE VIOLATION OF
THISORDINANC7,i, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
BE IT OFDAINED BY 'H' CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF MIAMI
BEACH, FL OR IDA :
R. Section 1. No dogs shall be permitted to run at large
unless such dog shall wear a tag or plate such as is hereinafter
provided for and any dog found without such tag may be caught by
the chief of police, any member of the police force, or anyone
acting under their direction, and imprisoned or impounded at a
place kept for that purpose.
Section 2, The City Clerk shall have prepared small
tags or plates of tin, copper or brass, with the words A.liami
Beach, and the year for which the same is issued and the number
of the tag stamped thereon on or before the first day of January
of each year hereafter, which tam may be obtained by owners of
dogs by paying to the City Clerk a fee of One Dollar ji where the
tag is for a male dog, and a fee of Two Dollars where such tag
is for a female dog. Such tags shall be good and shall license
the dog wearing the same for the year only for which it is issued.
Section 3. The owner of any dog caught or imprisoned
or impounded as aforesaid shall be entitled to the possession
together
of said animal upon proof of ownership and payment of One Dollar,
with the accrued cost of feeding, to the City Clerk.
Section 4. The City Clerk shall keep a record of all
persons who shall procure such tags and if any person shall
counterfeit or shall use any tag not purchased as aforesaid,
he or she shall, upon conviction, be fined not exceeding Fifty
Dollars or be imprisoned in the City Jail not exceeding thirty
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days.
Section 5.- Any dog which shall remain impounded
or imprisoned or unclaimed by an owner for a period of five
days may 'be sold, x xxxxxxxxx y xxxx xXXXT.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
after advertising by pasting for a period of two
days, giving notice of the time and place when such sale shall
be made and the description of the dog as well as the amount
due for costs.
Section 6. The chief of police shall receive the sum
of Twenty-five Cents per day for feeding all dogs impounded,
a fee of Fifty Cents for impounding the same, and a like fee
for killing the same when they are killed. In the event a dog
is sold, the proceeds from such sale shall be paid to and re-
tained by the City Clerk for the use of the City. The City
Clerk shall conduct all such sales. Posting as hereinbefore
required shall be by posting at the City Hall only.
Section 7. Whenever the Elayor shall deem it necessary
to insure public health and safety, he may issue his proclama-
general cir u ati
tion by notice in some newspaper of n the 1-Gy o?nTvliami
-beach and by posting at the City Hall prohibiting all dogs
from running at large or under leash within the limits of the
City of Miami Beach whether provided with license tag or not
unless the same shall be securely muzzled. Such muzzling to
be approved by the mayor, and such prohibition shall continue
until a public notice of the discontinuance thereof given in the
same manner as aforesaid by the Rlayor of said City.
Section 8. Any dog running a.t large in violation of any
such proclamation of the Mayor shall be deemed a public nuisance
and it shall be t pie duty of the chief of police or any member
of the police force or any person acting under their direction,
to cause such dogs to be taken up and impounded or if such dogs
are of apparent dangerous character, to be killed where found
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and such dogs taken up and impounded shall be disposed of
as hereinbefore provided for dogs not wearing a tag.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 5th day of Octobgr A.D. , 1921.
/Ac-+trt President of the City Council
ATTEST:
City Clerk
APPROVT D: this 5th !lay., of Oct -ber, Ae D. 1921.
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