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ORDINANCE NO. 162. AN ORDINANCE TO LICENSE, TAX, REGULATE AND RESTRAIN THE KEEPING OF DOGS, AND TO AUTHORIZE THE DISTRAINING, IMPOUNDING, SALE AND DESTRUCTION OF THE SAME. Approved Sept. 26, 1878. The City of Seattle does ordain as follows:
SECTION 1. -- The keeping of dogs within the limits of said city is hereby forbidden, unless the owners thereof shall procure a license for each dog or dogs as hereinafter provided for.
SEC. 2. -- An annual tax to commence on the Monday in October, is hereby levied as follows: each male dog, $2.50; on each bitch, $2.50.
SEC. 3. -- On the payment to the City Treasurer of the amount of any such tax, and the production of a certificate thereof to the City Clerk, it shall be the duty of said clerk to issue a license, numbered in the order of said issue, to the person applying for the same, and the person receiving such license shall cause to be placed upon the neck of his dog so licensed, a collar on which shall be plainly marked the number of such license.
SEC. 4. -- [As amended by Ordinance No. 168.] All dogs found running at large without having on such marked collar are declared to be public nuisances, and it shall be the duty of the Chief of Police, or of some suitable person to be by him appointed, to distrain and impound said dog or dogs, for which service
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he shall be entitled to a fee of $1, to be collected from the owner or owners of such dog or dogs together with the sum of 50 cents for every day each of said dog or dogs shall be kept in custody: Provided, That no dog shall be so kept over forty-eight hours, at the expiration of which time it shall be the duty of said Chief of Police or of his deputy, to offer each of said dogs for sale for the payment of the tax, cost, and expenses due, and in case of failure to obtain a purchaser for the full amount of said tax, cost and expenses it shall be the duty of said Chief of Police or of his deputy, to cause the destruction of said dog.
SEC. 5. -- [As amended by Ordinance No. 168.] The Chief of Police is hereby authorized to secure a suitable pound for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this Ordinance.
SEC. 6. -- If any person, the owner of any dog, shall permit said dog to wear the collar contemplated by the [this] Ordinance without said tax having been paid and license procured, he shall be liable to a penalty of $25, to be collected according to law in the name of said city.
SEC. 7. -- If any person owning the same shall knowingly permit any bitch to run at large while in heat, notwithstanding such person may have a license for such bitch as herein provided, such person shall be fined in any sum not exceeding ten dollars--the same to be collected as other fines.