People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1896 — Ordinance No. 42. [ARTICLE]

Ordinance No. 42.

Dog Ordinance. An Ordinance restraing viscious dogs and requiring all dogs to be muzzled during the months of July and August and declaring an emergency. (Ordained and Established June 29, 1896.) Be it ordained by the Common Council of the City of Rensselaer, Jaspea County, Indiana: Sec. 1. That it shall be unlawful for the owner of any dog, male or female, to allow the same to run at large without a muzzle during the months of July and August. Sec. 2. That any dog male or female, having any malignant or contagous disease, or that attacks or attempts to attack any parson or persons or runs at or barks at any child in a viscious manner shall be deemed a vicious and dangerous dog and it shall be unlawful for such viscious and dangerous dog to run at large in the street or alleys of the City of Rensselaer, without a muzzle at any time of the year. And the owner of any such daugerous or vicious dog who shall refuse or neglect to keep tied or muzzled any such dog, after notice from the Marshal, that such dog is vicious or dangerous, shall upon conviction be fined in any sum not exceeding twenty five dollars. Sec. 3. That it shall be lawful for the Marshal to kill any dog found off the premises of the owner and running at large in the streets of the City of Rensselaer, during the months of July and August, the same not being muzzled or accompanied by the owner; or any dangerous or vicious dog, after having notified the owner thereof that snch dog is dangerous, at any time during the year. Sec. 4. Whereas: an emergency exists, this ordinance, shall be in force from and after its publication according to law.