2002 MiscELLArsEous Laws 



§ 131. Duty of town clerk. The clerk of each town or village 

 wherein said resolution is applicable, in such county, when he 

 shall be informed by such list or otherwise that there is any dog 

 which has not been registered, shall forthwith bring an action as 

 prescribed in the next section against the owner of such dog or the 

 person harboring the same, or he shall forthwith give written notice 

 to any constable of the town, or if in a village then to any police- 

 man or other peace officer thereof, requiring him to take such dog 

 into his possession, and dispose of the same as prescribed in sec- 

 tion one hundred and thirty-three of this article. 



§ 132. Penalties; actions therefor. Every person liable to pay a 

 registration fee for a dog who shall fail to pay the same as herein 

 provided, or who shall knowingly permit any dog, owned or har- 

 bored by him, to be at large without wearing a tag issued by the 

 town or village clerk, shall forfeit the sum of five dollars, to be 

 recovered in an action brought before a justice of the peace of the 

 town wherein the person owning or harboring such dog may be, in 

 the name of the town or village in which such dog is required to be 

 registered, upon the complaint of the town or village clerk, respec- 

 tively, as the case may be ; and the justice before whom a judgment 

 for such penalty is recovered shall direct, in the execution issued 

 upon such judgment, that, in case of the failure to collect the whole 

 of such judgment besides costs, the dog for which such registration 

 fee has not been so paid, or which has been so permitted to be at 

 large, shall be taken into the possession of the constable receiving 

 such execution and forthwith killed by shooting, and thereupon it 

 shall be the duty of such constable to take such dog into his posses- 

 sion and forthwith kill the same. A judgment so recovered shall 

 not constitute a bar to a further action to recover such penalty 

 brought subseciuent to the recovery of such judgment so long as 

 such violation shall continue, nor shall the recovery or collection 

 of such judgment exempt the person against whom the same is 

 recovered from a compliance witli ;iiiy provision of sections one 

 hundred and twenty-eight t(^ one hundred and thirty-six, both 

 inclusive, of this article. 



§ 133. Seizure of dogs not tagged or registered. Each constable 

 in such county where such resolution shall be made applicable to 



