The County Law 1999 



or previous to any injury, chasing or worrying of sheep or angora 

 goats, or any such attack made by a dog, shall bo deemed the 

 owner of the dog for all the purposes of this article. 



§ 127. Penalties, collection and application of. The penalties 

 imposed by this article for failure to kill dogs as proscribed 

 therein shall be collected by the supervisor of the town where they 

 are incurred, upon complaint being made to h m of such failure, 

 in the manner provided by the town law for the recovery of pen- 

 alties given by law to a town for its use. Such penalties when 

 so collected shall be paid into the town fund provided by this 

 article for the payment of damages incurred by dogs killing sheep 

 or angora goats in such town. 



§ 128. Adoption by county of dog registration provisions. The 

 board of supervisors of any county may, by resolution adopted 

 at an annual meeting, determine that the provisions of sections 

 one hundred and twenty-eight to one hundred and thirty-six, both 

 inclusive, of this article shall apply to such county, or to any 

 specified town or village therein, after a date to be designated 

 in such resolution, which date shall be subsequent to the last pub- 

 lication of the resolution as herein required, but no such resolution 

 shall be adopted affecting any town or village in such county 

 separately, except upon the written application of the town board 

 of such town or the trustees of such village. Such resolution shall 

 also prescribe the annual registration fee to be paid within such 

 county, or within the several towns or villages specially affected by 

 it, for every dog over four months old. A certified copy of such 

 resolution shall be filed in the offices of the secretary of state and 

 of the county clerk of such county, and also in the office of the 

 clerk of the town or village affected by any such resolution if it 

 relates to a single town or village; and such resolution, together 

 with sections one hundred and twenty-eight to one hundred and 

 thirty-six, both inclusive, of this article, shall be published once 

 in each week for six successive weeks in at least two newspapers 

 published in the county to be designated by the board of super- 

 visors, one of which shall be a newspaper published in the town 

 or village specially affected, if such resolution relates to a single 



