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the full name and place of residence and the business or occu- 

 pation of the person so appointed and the fact that he is a 

 citizen of the State of California and shall also designate the 

 number of the badge to be allotted to such officer. Every 

 person so appointed must within ten days after his appoint- 

 ment present to the judge of the superior court in and for the 

 county or city and county in which the corporation appointing 

 such officer has its principal place of business a copy of such 

 resolution duly certified to be correct by the president and 

 secretary of such corporation and attested by its seal. The 

 judge shall examine such appointee as to his qualifications 

 and fitness to act as such officer and, if he approves such 

 appointment, shall indorse his approval on said certified 

 copy of said resolution. Said appointee shall thereupon and 

 within said period of ten days file said certified copy with 

 the judge's approval indorsed thereon in the office of the 

 county clerk of said county or city and county and shall at the. 

 same time take and subscribe the oath of office prescribed for 

 constables or other peace officers. The county clerk shall there- 

 upon immediately enter in a book to be kept in his office and 

 designated "Record of Humane Officers" the name of such 

 officer, the number of his badge, the name of the corporation 

 appointing him and the date of such filing. At the time of 

 such filing the county clerk shall collect from such officer a fee 

 of fifty cents, which shall be in full for all services to be per- 

 formed by the county clerk under the provisions of this section. 

 The corporation appointing such officer may revoke such 

 appointment at any time by resolution of its board of directors 

 or trustees, a duly certified copy of which resolution must 

 within five days after its adoption be filed in the office of the 

 county clerk in which the appointment of such officer is 

 recorded and upon such filing the county clerk shall enter the 

 fact of such revocation and the date of the filing thereof oppo- 

 site the name of such officer in such record of .humane officers. 

 Such humane officers after qualifying as above provided shall 

 have power at all places within the state lawfully to interfere 

 to prevent the perpetration of any act of cruelty upon any 

 dumb animal and may use such force as may be necessary to 

 prevent the same and to that end may summon to their aid any 

 bystander. They may make arrests for the violation of any 

 penal law of this state relating to or affecting animals in the 

 same manner as a constable or other peace officer and may carry 

 such weapons as peace officers are authorized to carry; except 

 that in cities and counties and cities of the first and first and 

 one half classes no such humane officer shall carry any such 

 weapon unless permission in writing so to do has first been 

 granted to him by the board of police commissioners of such 

 city or city and county. Every humane officer must when 

 making such arrests exhibit and expose a suitable badge to be 

 adopted by the corporation appointing him which shall bear 

 its name and a number. Any person resisting a humane officer 



