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ORDINANCE NO. *
AN ORDINANCE to provide revenue and imposing and previdin~ for
the cellection of an annual license not exceeding Two Dollars($2.00) on
every dog owned or harbored within the limits of the City of Auburn,
providing for the killing of all dogs not duly licensed fO\l.nd at large
within the limits of said city and prescribing a penalty for permittUg
any female dog to run at large within the limits of said city when in
heat. _ __'
VlliEREAS Section 9127 of Remington's Compiled Statutes of
Washington gives and grants to a city council of a city of the third
class power "to impose and collect an annual license not exceeding
Two Dollars on every dog owned or harbored within the limits of the
city; to prohibit dogs running at large and to Pf_Qvidefor the killing
of all dogs not duly licensed found at large";
NOW THEREFORE, The City Council of the City of Auburn do
ordain as follows:
Section 1. That there is hereby imposed and shall be collected
an annual license of One Dellar ($1.00) on every male dog or:spayed female
dog owned or harbored within the limits of the City of Auburn; and there
is hereby imposed and shall be collected an annual license of Two Dollars
($2.00) on every unspayed female dog owned or harbored wi thin the limi ts
ef said ci ty.
Section 2. That it .hall be the duty of every owner of any
dog or having possession of any dog or harboring any dog within the
corporate limits ef said city to procure from the City Clerk the license
herein provided for; and that the termination of such license shall be
at the end of the calendar year in which such license shall be issued.
Section 3. That on payment to the City Clerk of the amount
of said license fee or tax it shall be the duty of the City Clerk\of
the City of Auburn to issue a license to the person applying for the
same, which license shall remain in force for one year from and after
the first day of January in the year in which such license is issued
and not lenger. Such license shall be denominated a "dog license".
The City Clerk shall furnish and provide to each licensee a metal tag
and upon such tag shall be the inscription "AUBURN" tegether with the
year in which the license is issued and the number corresponding with
the number of the license; and that such tag shall be appended to and
at all times kept upon a; cellar which the owner of such dog or the per-
son having possession of or harboring such dog shall pre vide and place
and at all times keep upon the neck of the dog se licensed.
Section 4. That it~shallbe the duty of the City Clerk to
keep a list of the names and addresses of all persons to whom such
licenses are issued with the number and character of the license issued
to each person.
Section 5. That all dogs owned or harbored within the limits
of the City of Auburn, not having thereon a collar and license tag as here-
in provided, are hereby declared to be a public nuisance, and that it shall
be the duty of the Chief of Police of the City of Auburn, or some other
person by him appointed for that purpose to distrain and impound all such
dogs; and that the Chief of Police of the City of Auburn or any police
officer of said city or any person appointed by the Police Department of said
city to enforce the provisions of this ordinance may in his discretion
kill forthwith all dogs not licensed as herein provided and found r\l.nning
at large within the limits of said city.
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Section 6. That the Chief of Police or any police officer of
the City of Auburn or any person authorized ~y the Police Department of
said city to enforce the provisions of this ordinance may in his
discretion keep any dog distrained or impoundedlas herein provided for a
period ef forty-eight (48)" hours, at the end of which period it shall
be discretionary with the person so distraining or impounding such deg
whether he will sell such dog in an effort to defray the expenses of
keeping it, or to kill it.
Sectien 7. That any owner or keeper of a dog so impounded
and not killed as hereinbefore provided may redeem the same within 48
hours after the d1str~ining_or_~mppunging of the same as herein provided
by paying to the City Clerk the prescribed license tax together with a
penalty of One Dollar ($1.00) and obtaining from the City Clerk a license
in the manner above prescribed, and that upon the presentation of such
license, also license tag and collar as herein provided, together with
a receipt for payment of such penalty of $1.00 as aforesaid to the
Chief of Police or other. proper officer, the dog so ddstrained or
impounded shall be released. -
Section 8. That all moneys received for licenses issued as
herein provided shall be paid at once into the City Treasury of the City
of Auburn; and that all moneys received from the sale of dogs or on
account of penalties as herein provided shall be paid into the City
Treasury of said city.
Section 9. That it shall be the duty of the Chief of Police
or other police officer or person authorized by the Police Department
to enforce the provisions of this ordinance to cause all dogs impounded
under the provisions of this ordinance and not forthwith killed as herein
provided to be fed and treated in a humane manner while so impounded.
Section 10. That if any dog shall have been distrained or
impounded under the provisions of this ordinance for a period of 48
hours, it shall be the duty of the Chief of Police or other police
officer of the city of Auburn or other person duly autherized by the
Police Department of the City of Auburn to at once kill such dog in
case he shall deem it improbable that the same can be sold for the sum
of $2.00.
Section 11. That any owner or person harboring or keeping any
female dog who shall permit the same to run at large when in heat within
the corporate limits of the City of AUburn, notwithstanding such person
may have a license for such female dog as herein provided, shall on
conviction thereof, for each and every such offense be fined in any sum
not exceeding Twenty Dollars ($20.00) to which may be added the costs of
prosecution.
Section 12. That if any owner or person harboring or keeping
any dog shall permit such dog to wear a collar a license tag without the
license tax herein imposed having been paid-and a license procured as
herein provided, such person shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor
and, on conviction thereof, for each and every such effense, shall be
fined in any sum not exceeding Twenty Dollars ($20.00), to which may be
added the costs of prosecution.
Section 13. That if any provision contained in this ordinance
shall be held to be invalid or unconstitutional, such holding of invalidity
or unconstitutionality shall not affect or impair the remaining previsions
of this ordinance.
Section 14. That ordinances numbered 110, 211 and 266 of the
ordinances of the City of Auburn are hereby repealed.
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Section 15. That this ordinance shall take effect and be in force
five (5) days from and after its passage and publication as required by
law.
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INTRODUCED
PASSED
APPROVED
March 7,
March 7,
March 7,
1933
1933
1933
Attest:
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ORDINANCE No. 740 '
AN Oll.t>INANCE ',0 prO\'ide rfY&,o.1..
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STATE OF WASHINGTON,
COUNTY OF KING,
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City ClerK of the City of Auburn, a municipal corporation of the third class, situate in
the County of King, State of Washington, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a full,
true and correct copy of Ordinance N 0....'140.o.o.m..' of the ordinances of the said The City of
Auburn, entitled "AN ORDINANCE .to...Pl'O.y~.~eo.!:'.\l.v.elN.eo.~J14o.."lJ!P~t~lng,.~.ml,..p~.QJr.1!l,J~o."
for the collection of an annual l1cena. not e:a:ceeding Two Dollars {$2.ool
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for the kill1ng of all dogs not duly l1censed tolllld at large within the limits
ot said City aDd prescribing a penalty tor permitting any female dog to run at
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I further certify that said Ordinance No. m7.4IL......o.. was duly passed by the Council and
approved by the Mayor of the said The City of Auburn, and published as provided by law in
_The Auburn.Glabs.,.Republ1clUIm".."mm .."".m....m""...", a weekly newspaper published in the
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"J ~.' City_of -A~burn, and of general circulation therein, on the m" ".....""lO.thm.m.........."".... day of
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S '7 Witness !'Iy hand and the official seal of the City of Auburn, this "".""
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Published March 10, 1933.
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