(a) It shall be the duty of the Dog Law Enforcement Officer to dispose of any dog, forty-eight hours after capture and detention, which does not bear a proper license tag, if found running at large. He shall cause any dog bearing a proper license tag which is seized and detained to be properly kept and fed, and shall cause immediate notice either personal or by registered mail to be given to the person in whose name the license was registered, to claim such dog, within ten days. The owner of a dog so detained shall pay all reasonable expenses incurred by reason of its detention, under the provisions of this section, before the dog is returned. These expenses are hereby fixed at two dollars ($2.00) for the first forty-eight hours or less of detention, and fifty cents (50¢) per day thereafter.
(b) If, after ten days from the giving of such notice, such dog has not been claimed, the Dog Law Enforcement Officer or his agent shall dispose of the dog by sale or by destruction in some humane manner. All moneys derived from the sale of such dog shall be considered equivalent to the expense of its detention.
(1944 Code Ch. 3 §17, 18. )