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ORDINANCE NO. 150 107 AN ORDINANCE LICENSING AND REGULATING DOGS, PROVIDING FOR IMPOmmING nOGS ArfD PRESCRIBING A PENALTY FOR VIOLATION. The Council of the Village of Roseville ordains: SECTIon I Definitions (a) As used in this ordinance, "owner" means any person, firm, or corpor- ation owning, harboring or keeping a dog. (b) "It lar~elt means off the premises of the OYlner and not under the control of the owner or a member of his immediate family, either by leash or otherwise. SECTION 2 License Required - No dog owner shall keep any doe over three months of age l'Tithin the Village after the first da.y of April, 1953, unless a license therefor has first been secured. Licenses shall be issued by the Village Clerk for a fee of $2.00 for each male or spayed female dog and $5.00 for each un- spayed female dog. An applicant for a license for a spayed female dog shall present a statement from a qualified veterinarian indicating that the dog has been spayed and givini the date of the operation. Licenses shall expire on the 31st day of March next following their issuance. SECTION 3 Date of payment - It shall be the duty of each owner of a dog to pay the license fee imposed in Section 2 to the Village Clerk on or before the first day of April in each year, or upon acquiring ownership or possession of any unlicensed dog or upon establishing residence in the Village. The Clerk shall cause a notice of the necessity of paying such license fee to be printed in the official paper one time before the 15th day of March, in each year. .. SECTION 4 Receipts and Tags - Upon the pa;yment of the license fee, the Clerk shall execute a receipt in duplicat~. He shall deliver the original receipt to the person who pays the fee and retain the duplica.te. He shall also procure a sufficient number of suitable metallic tags, the shape of which shall be differ- ent for each license year; and he shall deliver one appropriate tag to the owner when the fee is paid. SECTION 5 Affixing Tags - The owner shall cause said tag to be affixed by a permanent metal fastening to the collar of the dog so licenserl in such a manner that the tag may be easily seen by the officers of the Village. The owner shall see that the tag is constantly worn by such dog. SECTION 6 J Impounding - After the first day of April of each year, the police officers of the Village shall take up and impound any dogs found in the Village without the tag provided for in Section 4 hereof; and to enforce this ordinance said officers are empowered p"nd instructed to enter upon any private premises where they have reasonable cause to believe there is an unlicensed dog.