Bylaw bl-2003-0073



        THE CORPORATION OF THE TOWN OF GEORGINA
                        IN THE
             REGIONAL MUNICIPALITY OF YORK
                           
           BY-LAW NUMBER 2003-0073 (REG-1)
                           
                           

BEING  A  BY-LAW TO REGULATE AND PROHIBIT THE BEING  AT
LARGE  OF  ANIMALS OTHER THAN DOGS AND CATS  AND  THEIR
SEIZURE, IMPOUNDING AND CONTINGENT SALE
                           
     
     
     WHEREAS   the  Municipal  Act,  2001  as  amended,
authorizes  a municipality to pass by-laws to  regulate
and  prohibit  the  being at large of  animals  and  to
provide  for  the  impounding of said animals  and  for
their  sale if they are not claimed within a reasonable
time.
     
     NOW  THEREFORE  THE COUNCIL OF THE CORPORATION  OF
THE TOWN OF GEORGINA ENACTS AS FOLLOWS:
     
1.   DEFINITIONS:

     In this by-law,

     (a)  "animal"  means  any  member  of  the  animal
          kingdom, excluding domestic dogs and domestic
          cats, other than a human;
     
     (b)  "being at large" means being found on a highway or
          any place other than premises of the animal owner and
          not in the control of the animal owner;

     (c)  "highway" means a common and public  highway,
          street, avenue, parkway, driveway, square, place,
          bridge, viaduct or trestle, any part of which is
          intended for or used by the general public for the
          passage of vehicles and pedestrians and includes the
          area between the lateral property lines;

     (d)  "owner" means any person that owns, harbors, or
          has permanent or temporary possession of an animal or
          animals;

     (e)  "pound keeper" means a person or persons appointed
          by the town to retrieve, impound and operate an animal
          pound;

     (f)  "town"  means the Corporation of the Town  of
          Georgina.

2.   ANIMALS BEING AT LARGE:

     (a)       No owner of an animal shall allow the animal
          to be at large within the borders of the town.

     (b)       Any person having found an animal being at
          large may take charge of, detain or deliver that animal
          to the pound keeper.

3.   POUND KEEPER:

     (a)  The pound keeper may impound any animal found
          being at large. He may also impound an animal delivered
          to him by a person having found that animal being at
          large.
                                 
                           
     (b)  As soon as is practical, the pound keeper upon
          impounding an animal shall notify the animal owner and
          where the animal owner is unknown shall notify the Town
          Clerk in writing of the detaining of the animal
          including a description of the animal.

     (c)  Upon notification from the pound keeper, the Town
          Clerk shall post a notice in a conspicuous place in the
          municipal offices for five (5) consecutive days
          excluding Saturdays, Sundays and Statutory Holidays,
          indicating the date and location of the animals
          finding, the animals description and the steps
          necessary to reclaim the animal.

     (d)  After  the expiry of five (5) days, excluding
          Saturdays, Sundays and Statutory Holidays, from the day
          of impounding and the animal has not been restored to
          the owner, the pound keeper shall sell the animal. Any
          monies received for the sale of the animal shall be
          applied as follows:

          (i)  to recover any expenses incurred by the pound
             keeper for services rendered to impound and keep the
             animal;
          (ii) to recover any expenses incurred by the pound
             keeper for the sale of the animal;
(iii)     to the town.

4.   PENALTY:
     
     Every person who contravenes any of the provisions
     of  this by-law, upon conviction, is guilty of  an
     offence and is liable to a fine  pursuant  to  the
     Provincial Offences Act as amended.

6.   REPEALS:
     
     By-law 93-18 (LI-1) is hereby repealed.
     

     

     READ a first, second and third time and passed  on
this 9th day of June, 2003.
     
     
     
     
     
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Jeffrey Holec, Mayor
     
     
     
     
     
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 Rolland Chenier, Town Clerk