HomeMy WebLinkAboutO-276ORDINANCE # 276
AN ORDINANCE REGULATING THE KEEPING OF DOGS WITHIN THE CITY
OF FAIRHOPE AND PROVIDING.FOR THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FAIRHOFE,
ALABAMA, AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 9: When used in this Ordinance, the following words
and phrases shall have the meanings given to them by Code of
Alabama, recompiled, 1958, Title 22, Section 105: )a) "Dog"
(b) Person �c) Inoculation against rabies".
. The words at
large" shall a intended to mean off the premises of the owner
and not under control by leash, cord, chain or otherwise. The
word "dog catcher" or "ported keeper" shall include all agents or
assistants of the City that have been delegated to control dogs.
SECTION 2. No owner of any dog shall permit said dog to
run at large at any time within the corporate limits of the City
of Fairhope.
SECTION 3. if the owner of a dog carelessly manages the
dog or permits it to go at ,LQrge, and another person, without
fault on his part, suffers damages thereby, such owner shall be
liable for such damages.
SECTION 4. It shall be the duty.of every Police officer of
the City, upon discoveringa dog running at large within the City,
to promptly notify the City dog catcher. It shall be the duty
of the dog catcher when so notified, or whenever bb observes
any dog.running at large, to im»;ediately take such dog in his
possession and confine it in the City Pound, and if said dog is
licensed by the City of Fairhope, to notify the owner of said dog.
SECTION 5. If said dog exhibits pronounced symptoms of
rabies, or if the dog has bitten anyone, the pound -keeper shall
notify the Deeartment of Public Health in Baldwin County, Alabama,
and impound said dog in accordance with the instruction from the
Department of Public Health, until it is determined whether or
not said dog has rabies. /f said dog has rabies, it is to be
destroyed; if it does not have rabies, the pound keeper is to
allow said dog to be redeemed as hereinafter set out, and if it
is not redeemed, he is to destroy said dog.
SECTION 6. The owner of any impounded dog may within forty-
eight hours after said dog is impounded redeem the dog by paying
to the Clerk of the City ofF&irhope, the sum of Two Dollars and
Fifty Cents (02.50) for the impounding and Fifty Cents (50¢) a
day for the keep of said dog, and b securing a City License
and exhibiting evidence that said dog has been inoculated against
rabies.
SECTION 7. In the event the impounded dog is not redeemed
within seventy two (72) hours after same is impounded and said
dog doe4 not bear a current City license, or, if after seventy-
two (72) hours from the time notice is mailed to the owner that
his dog has been picked up and said dog bears a current Cit
license, the pound keeper may, at his discretion, sell saiYdog
if,purchaser complies with all the provisions of this Ordinance,
andsuchpurchaser shall be vested with a legal title to the dog
so purchased, or the pound keeper may destroy said dog in a
humane manner, allowing a local humane society to destroy the dog
if it so desires.
SECTION 8. The dog catcher of the City of Fairhope shall
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have the right and t shall be his duty to enter upon any property,
except a private dwelling house, for the purpose of capturing
any dog at large, in compliance with this Ordinance.
SECTION 9. ALL ordinances in conflict with this Ordinance
are hereby specifically repeated.
SECTION 10. This Ordinance shall go into effect within
sixty (60) days after passing.
Adopted this the 93th day of February,1969
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STATE OF ALABAMA
COUNTY OF BALDWIN
CITY OF FAIRHOPE
1, Marie Moore, Clerk of the City of Fai.rhope, do hereby
certify that the foregoing is a true, correct and literal copy
of Ordinance # 276 duly adopted by the City Council on the
93th day of Bebruary, 9969 as the same was entered in the Minute
Book of the City of Fairhope, that such Ordinance was duly
published as required by law.
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