Ordinance No. 30ORDINANCE NO. 30
AN ORDINANCE REGULATING THE KEEPING OF LIVE STOCK
AND DOMESTIC FOVIL IN THE CITY OF BAYTOWN; PROVIDING
PENALTIES; CONTAINING A SEVERABILITY CIAUSF,; RE-
PEALING ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT; PROVIDING FOR THE
EFFECTIVE DATE HEREOF.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF TIE CITY OF BAYTOWN::
Section 1: The running at large of horses,;, mules, jacks, jennets, cattle, sheep
goats or hogs, within the City of Baytown, is hereby declared a nuisance, and it is hereby
made unlawful for the owner or keeper of any such animals to suffer, permit or alloyr the
same to run at large within the corporate limits of the City of Baytown.
Section 2: It shall be required of every person owning or having control of any
chickens, ducks, turkeys, guineas or any other domestic fowls, to keep the same confined
vrithin his own premises, and it shall be unlawful for any }person within the city limits
® to suffer, permit or allow any chicken, duck, turkey, guinea or other domestic fowl which
they may own or have the charge of to go or be found upon any street or alley of the city
or upon the premises of another without the consent of the owner or the person in charge
of the premises, upon which such chickens, ducks, turkeys, guineas or other domestic fowl
may be found.
Section 3: The City Manager shall select and establish, with the approval of the
City Council, a place for impounding such of said animals mentioned in Section One hereof
as are found running at large.
Section 4 :- The Chief of Police, or any policeman, or other person designated by the
Chief of Police, shall take up and impound any animal found running at large in the city
limits.
• Section 5: The Chief of Police shall sell impounded animals at public auction for
cash after giving five (5) days' public notice of the time, terms and place of sale in the
official newspaper of the -city, describing the animal impounded and stating that the same
will be sold to defray costs if not reclaimed and costs paid before the day of sale. If
not reclaimed by said day, he shall, between the hours of 10 :00 o'clock a.m. and 4:00
o'clock p.m. on said day, sell said animal at public auction to the highest bidder, and
after deducting all the expenses of sale and taking up and keeping such animal, shall re-
turn the balance of the proceeds, if any, to the owner of the animal. If no owner shall
call for the animal within thirty days from day of sale, said balance shall be paid into
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the city treasury. If any animal cannot be sold, it shall be forthwith destroyed.
• Section 6: The owner of said animals impounded may redeem the same as follows:
(1) Before Salet By paying the expense of taking up and keeping, together with the
cost of advertising, if any.
(2) After sale :: By paying to the purchaser double the amount bid by him for such
animal or animals and his reasonable expenses for keeping the same, provided the owner so
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redeems said animal vrithin thirty days after the date of sale; othervrise said animal
shall become the absolute property of the purchaser.
Section 7: The chief of Police shall keep a book giving the description of all �
® impounded b him the date of impounding, the date of sale, the amount rea]ized f�
animals impound y , .
such animal and the name and the address of the purchaser.
Section 8s The following shall be the fees charged as poundager
For taking care of animals, per head, per day. 2950
For taking up and impounding, per head. 1 2.50
For selling animals. 1.00
For preparing advertisement of sale. 1100
'For newspaper advertisement, the actual cost as determined from time
to time.
section 9: If arty of the animals named in the ordinance are found upon the premises
® of anyone, the owner or occupant of said premises shall have the right to confine such
animal until he can notify the Chief of,-'Police or pound keeper to come and impound such
animal; provided that same is done in an. reasonable time. When so notified, it shall be
the duty of said officers to at once cause such animal to be impounded as herein provided.
Section 10: Any person violating the provisions of Sections One oraTwo hereof shall
be guilty_of a misdemeanor and fined not more than one hundred dollars.
Section 11: All ordinances and parts of ordinances inconsistent with the terms of
this-ordinance are hereby repealed; it being the intent hereof to specifically repeal
Ordinance No. 26 passed by the City Commission of the City of Pelly on October 9,; 1947.
Section 123 If any section or provisions, or parts thereof in this ordinance shall
be adjudged invalid or unconstitutional, such invalidity or unconstitutionality shall not
® affect the validity of the ordinance as a whole or of any section or provision or part
thereof,
Section 13: This ordinance shall take effect from and after ten days from its
passage by the City Council. The City Clerk is hereby directed to give notice hereof by
causing the caption of this ordinance to be published in the official newspaper of the
City of Baytown at least twice prior to the effective date hereof.
INTRODUCED, READ and PASSED by the affirmative vote of a majority of the City Council
of the City of Baytown on this the 16th day of November, 1948,
E. D. Cleveland., IWyor
® ATT T:
Edna Oliver, City Clerk
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