POUNDS ORDINANCE

POUNDS ORDINANCE

CHAPTER 168.
POUNDS.

To make provision for impounding stray and for
the disposal thereof.

[1st December, 1911.]

1. This Ordinance may be cited is the Pounds Ordinance.

2. Any animal found at large without any person having the
charge thereof, and which in the opinion of any police officer appears
to have been lost or to be doing damage, may be seized by such police
officer and impounded in any convenient place, and may be detained
therein until the owner thereof has paid to the Commissioner of Police
the reasonable expenses of impounding and keeping such animal,
together with the pound fee.

3. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to make
regulations fixing the pound fees for aninials generally or for any
particular class of animal : Provided however that if no such
regulations are made, or if the animal impounded does not fall within
any class in respect of which a pound fee has been fixed, the pound fee
shall be one dollar.

4. (1) If the said expenses and pound fee be not paid within three
days after such impounding, notice of the intention to sell the animal
shall be published in the Gazette.

(2) If the expenses of impounding and keeping the anirnal and of
the publication in the Gazette and the pound fee are not paid within
seven days after the said publication, it shall be lawful for the
Commissioner of Police to cause the animal to be sold either by private
treaty or by public auction as he may think fit, and the purchaser
thereof shall acquire a good title. If the animal is unsaleable, or if in the
opinion of the Commissioner of Police it is an unsaleable animal, it may
be destroyed or otherwise disposed of as he may direct.





(3) The money arising from such sale, after deducting the above-
mentioned expenses and fee and the expenses of the sale, shall be
paid on demand to the owner of the animal : Provided that if such
demand is not made within one month after the sale all right to make it
shall cease and the money shall be paid into the general revenue.

5. Any person who releases or attempts to release any animal
froni any place where it has been impounded, or who pulls down,
damages or destroys such place or any part thereof with intent to
procure the release of such animal, shall uppon summary conviction be
liable to a fine of twenty-five dollars or to imprisonment for three
months.
Originally 54 of 1911. Fraser 54 of 1911. Short title. Impounding stray animal. [cf. 10 & 11 Vict. C. 89, s. 24.] Pound fees. Power to sell impounded animals. [cf. 10 & 11 Vict. C. 89, s. 25.] Pound breach. [cf. 10 & 11 Vict. C. 89, s. 26.]

Originally 54 of 1911. Fraser 54 of 1911. Short title. Impounding stray animal. [cf. 10 & 11 Vict. C. 89, s. 24.] Pound fees. Power to sell impounded animals. [cf. 10 & 11 Vict. C. 89, s. 25.] Pound breach. [cf. 10 & 11 Vict. C. 89, s. 26.]

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