1913 ORD PROHIBITING ANIMALS RUNNING AT LARGE WITHIN COP

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ORDINANCE NO. 1913 ANORDINANCE PROHIBITING ANIMALS RUNNING AT LARGE WITHIN THE CITY OF PARIS, TEXAS; PROHIBITING NOISY ANIMALS; PRESCRIB- ING SANITARY CONDITIONS; DECLARING A NUISANCE; PROVIDING FOR THE IMPOUNDING OF ANIMALS RUNNING AT LARGE; PROVIDING PROCE- DURE WHEN ANIMALS BITE OR SCRATCH PERSON; PROVIDING FOR POUNDAGE FEES; PROVIDING FOR DESTRUCTION OF ANIMALS; PROVIDING FOR SALE OF DOGS AND CATS IMPOUNDED; PROHIBITING CRUELTY TO ANIMALS; PROVIDING FOR SALE OF LIVESTOCK IMPOUNDED; REGULATING STAKING AND GRAZING; REGULATING HARBORING OF LIVESTOCK, HOGS OR SWIN9, FOWLS, GUINEA PIGS AND RABBITS; PROVIDING FOR RESTRAIN- ING OF DOGS; PROVIDING FOR VACCINATION OF DOGS; PROVIDING FOR DISPOSITION OF DOGS RUNNING AT LARGE; PROHIBITING DANGEROUS ANIMALS; PROVIDING FOR A FINE NOT TO EXCEED $200.00; REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT HEREWITH; PROVIDING FOR A SAVING CLAUSE; AND PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE OF AUGUST 1, 1969. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PARIS, PARIS, TEXAS: Section 1. Running at large prohibited. It animal public of the shall be unlawful for any person owning or keeping any to suffer or permit such animal to run at large upon the streets, avenues, alleys,ra.rks or other city, or to suffer or permit any animal or go upon the premises owned or in possession person in the city. The term "animal", as use through 9 shall also include, and such provis! apply to, fowl and reptiles, and the term may changeably. Section 2. Noise prohibited. public property to run at large of any other in sections 1 ns shall also e used inter - No person shall wilfully or knowingly keep or harbor on his premises any animal that makes or creates loud and obnoxious noises by whatever method created, thereby disturbing the peace of the neighborhood or disturbing the occupant of adjacent pre- mises or people living in the vicinity of such loud and obnox- ious noise. A person shall be deemed to have wilfully and knowingly violated the terms of this section if such person shall have been notified by the chief of police, animal control officer or any police officer of such disturbance and shall have re- fused for a period of twenty-four (24) hours to correct such disturbance and prevent its recurrence.