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ORDINANCE MAKING IT UNLAWFUL TO TIE ANIMALS IN THE CITY IN ORDER TO GRAZE ON CITY STREETS AND SETTING OUT THE IMPOUNDING OF CATTLE THAT RUN AT LARGE IN THE CITY AND SETTING FINES
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It shall be unlawful for any person to tie any horse, cow, mule, goat, hog, or any other animal upon or across any street, sidewalk or alley for the purpose of grazing or in such position that they can graze upon or across any street, sidewalk of alley; or to permit the same to graze thereupon in any manner, and the animals so tied shall be considered to be at large within the meaning of this ordinance and shall be impounded hereunder.
It is hereby made the duty of each member of the police department to restrain and impound all cattle whenever the same may be found running at large within the City of Jonesboro and to confine the same in the City pond. If the owner, or one having the right to possession of any such animal, be known, it shall be the duty of the Chief of Police or some subordinate member of the police department to notify such owner or person having the right to possession as soon as practicable after the animal shall have been impounded. If such owner, or the person having the right to such possession, shall remove the said animal from the City pound within twenty-four hours after such notice there shall be no fees charged except the impounding fee, which shall be One Dollar ($1.00) for each animal, or One Dollar each for the first two animals belonging to the same person impounded at the same time, and fifty cents each for each additional animal belonging to such person and impounded at the same time. For every day after the first that such animal remains in the pound, a fee for feeding and watering each animal, of twenty-five cents per day shall be charged and collected before the animal is delivered to the owner or person claiming the right to possession.
In all cases in which the owner is not known when any animal shall have been impounded, it shall be the duty of the Chief of Police to give notice of the impounding of such animal by advertisement in some newspaper of the City, in which advertisement a description of the animal shall be set out by giving marks and brands if any and any other particular mark descriptive of such animal, and calling upon the owner of the animal to prove his property and pay the impounding fee and for the advertisement.
If the owner of any such impounded animal shall call for same and pay the impounded fees and for the advertisement, he shall take his animal without any other additional charges.
In case no one shall claim any animal so impounded the Chief of Police shall on or after the fifth day after publication of the advertisement herein provided for, advertise the said animal for sale at public outcry at the City pound, to the highest bidder, by posting written or printed notices in three conspicuous places in the City of Jonesboro, which notices shall contain a description of the animal, the amount of fees due, and shall set the hour and day of sale, and five days’ notice of such sale shall be sufficient.
In case the owner of any animal shall have been notified and shall fail to pay the impounding fees or remove the said animal within twenty-four hours after said notice, the Chief of Police shall proceed at once to advertise the said animal for sale as provided in the preceding section.
After any animal shall have been advertised for sale, the fees shall be fifty cents for posting notices in addition to the impounding fees for the feed and care of any such impounded animal, and a sale fee of Fifty Cents shall also be charged. It shall be the duty of the Chief of Police to keep a record of all sales so made by him and settle with the City Treasurer once a month by payment of all fees collected under the provision of this ordinance. And if any animal shall be sold and the owner thereof shall be ascertained within thirty days after such sale, then the remainder of the sale price after the payment of all fees, shall be paid to such owner; and if such owner be not ascertained within thirty days, then the whole amount brought by such animal shall be paid to the City Treasurer, provided, the Chief of Police may exhibit receipted bills for necessary feed stuffs for such animals in his settlement, and in such case credit shall be allowed in settlement for all such bills.
Passed and approved this 2nd day of May, 1904
(Ordinance as amended by Ordinance 268, September 20, 1909, and Ordinance 281, September 5, 1910)