(A) It shall be unlawful for any person to permit any horse, mule, jack, cow, chickens or other fowls to run at large within the city limits or to pasture any animals or fowls in the streets or alleys, whether tied, herded or controlled in any other manner, or permitted to run at large.
(1982 Code, Title III, Ch. 3, § 1)
(B) The Street Commissioner may take possession of any animals running at large and shall cause the same to be taken to some safe and secure place and fed and cared for. It shall be the duty of the Street Commissioner to give five days’ notice by posting advertisements in at least three public places in the said town requiring the owner or person entitled to the possession of such animal to pay the costs and expenses of securing and keeping such animal and that, in default thereof, such animal will be sold at public auction, at a time and place therein named for the purpose of paying for such expense. The Street Commissioner shall, at the time and place provided in said notice, sell such animal at public auction to the highest bidder, and after deducting the expense of taking and keeping such animal pay the balance into the hands of the Clerk-Treasurer for the benefit of the owner of such animal. All amounts so turned over to the Clerk-Treasurer and not claimed by the rightful owner of such animal or animals within six months from the date of such sale shall be paid into the General Fund of the town.
(1982 Code, Title III, Ch. 3, § 2)
(Ord. passed 7-10-1939) Penalty, see § 91.99