[Adopted 6-10-1895 by Ord. No. 4 (§§ 95-1
to 95-6 of the 1982 Code)]
The owner or owners of any horse or horses,
cattle, sheep, goats or swine are hereby prohibited from allowing
any such animal or animals owned by them to run at large anywhere
in the limits of the Borough.
A public pound be and the same is hereby created,
in which any such animal or animals found so running at large may
be impounded and safely kept, and any person who may find any such
animal or animals running at large may drive and deliver the same
to the public pound.
At the first meeting after this article shall
go into effect a Pound Master shall be appointed by the Mayor and
Council, to take charge of said pound and the animals driven and delivered
to the same, and hold his office at the pleasure of the Council.
For each animal so driven and delivered to such
pound, that party who shall drive and deliver the same shall be entitled
to $0.25 per head, and the Pound Master shall have $0.25 for letting
in, $0.15 per head for letting out of the pound and, for feeding and
keeping while in the pound, $0.20 per head for each or part of a day
they shall continue in said pound. If the owner of said animals so
impounded shall not pay the charges for impounding and keeping them
within five days after they shall be impounded and take the same away,
it shall be the duty of said Pound Master to sell the same, giving
at least five days' notice of such intended sale, by setting up such
notice in three or more public places in the Borough, and if the owner
shall not redeem the same before the time so notified, then the Pound
Master shall sell the same and, out of the money arising from the
sale, shall pay all charges and fees incurred according to this article
and $1 for advertising and selling and pay the surplus to the owner
if he shall appeal and claims the same in six months after the sale,
and if the owner shall not appear and make such claim in said time,
then pay such surplus to the Borough.
All persons are hereby prohibited from taking
away or attempting to take away such animals from any person taking
or driving them to such pound or from hindering or interfering with
any such person, provided that nothing in this article shall be so
construed as to debar any person from driving or leading any such
animal over any street or highway for any lawful purpose.
Said Pound Master shall render to said Mayor
and Council whenever called upon an itemized account of his receipts
and expenditures.
