HomeMy WebLinkAbout1125 ORDINANCE N0. 1125
Ail ORDINANCE providing for the recovery of damages by people bitten by dogs
within the City of Bremerton, creating a liability of the owner of such dog and
creating a penalty for the keeping of such dogs without muzzles after notice of
such vicious habits, and defining private property where the public may go and the
conditions under which they may go without being molested by such dogs.
BE IT 0RDATNED BY THE CITY C0~ISSICN 0F THE CITY OF BR~ERTON AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. The o~er of any dog which shall bite any person while such person
is in or on a public place or lawfully in or on a private place including the
property of the owner of such dog, shall be liable for such damages as may be
suffered by the person bitten, regardless of the former viciousness of such dog or
the o~er's knowledge of such viciousness.
Section 2. A person is lawfully upon the private property of such oEer within
the meaning of this act when he is on such property in the performance of any duty
imposed upon him by the laws of the State of Washington or of the United States or
the ordinances of any municipality in which such property is situated, or when he is
on such property upon the invitation, e~ressed or implied, of the o~er thereof.
Section 3. That when any person within the City of Bremerton shall o~ or
harbor a dog ~ich has attempted to bite any person or persons and such o~er or
person harboring said dog shall have knowledge of this trait, then said person w~o
owns or harbors such dog shall not Permit such dog to run at large without first
causing a muzzle to be placed on sa g s~ficient to prevent the biting of any
individual.
Section 4. That any person or persons violating the provisions of Section
hereof shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction thereof shall be firmed in
any s~ not to e~c~ed One H~dred ($100.00) Dollars or be confined in the city jail
not less than thirty (30) days, or by both such fine and imprisonment, and the
Chief of Police is hereby empowered to destroy said ~im~ when the party owning or
harboring said dog refuses to muzzle or safely keep said ~imal after notice given
as above set out.
P~SED and ~dopted by the City Co~ission of the City of Bremerton on the
third day of April,_ 1937, signed b~ the ~ayor and attested by the City Clerk in
authentication of such passage.
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