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for the transportation of dogs for hunting, breeding, trial, or show purposes, the 

 home county license holding good for such purposes throughout the Common- 

 wealth. 



SEC. 11. Any person who keeps or operates a kennel may, in lieu of the license 

 for each dog required by this act, apply to the county treasurer for a kennel 

 license entitling him to keep or operate such kennel. Such license shall be issued 

 by the county treasurer, on a form prepared and supplied by the county commis- 

 sioner*, and shall entitle the licensee to keep any number of dogs six months old 

 or over, not at any time exceeding a certain number to be specified in the license. 

 The fee to be paid for each kennel license shall be five dollars for ten dogs or less, 

 and ten dollars for more than ten dogs, permitted to be kept under the kennel 

 license. With each kennel license the county treasurer shall issue a number of 

 metal tags equal to the number of dogs authorized to be kept in the kennel. All 

 such tags shall bear the name of the county issuing it, the number of the kennel 

 license, and shall be readily distinguishable from the individual license tags for 

 the same year. 



SEC. 12. The licensee of a kennel shall, at all times, keep one of such tags 

 attached to a collar on each dog six months old or over kept by him under a 

 kennel license. Such tags may be transferred from one dog to another within the 

 kennel whenever any dog is removed from the kennel. No dog bearing a kennel 

 tag shall be permitted to stray or to be taken anywhere outside the limits of 

 the kennel. 



This section does not prohibit the taking of dogs having a kennel license 

 outside the limits of the kennel temporarily and in leash, nor does it prohibit 

 the taking of such dogs out of the kennel temporarily for the purpose of hunting, 

 breeding, trial, or show. 



SEC. 13. Any person may bring or cause to be brought into the State, for a 

 period of thirty days, one or more dogs for show, trial, or breeding purposes. 



SEC. 14. The county treasurer shall keep a record of all dog licenses, and all 

 kennel licenses, and all permits issued during the year. Such record shall con- 

 tain the name and address of the person to whom each license or permit is issued. 

 In the case of an individual license, the record shall also state the breed, sex, 

 age. color, and markings of the dog licensed ; and in the case of a kennel license, 

 it shall state the place where the business is conducted. The record shall be a 

 public record and open to persons interested, during business hours. 



Whenever the ownership or possession of any dog licensed under the provisions 

 of this act is transferred from one person to another, except the temporary 

 transfer of dogs for hunting purposes, or for breeding, trial, or show, as provided 

 in section nine of this act, such transfer shall be noted on the record of the 

 county treasurer. 



SEC. 15. An accurate record of all license fees collected by the county treas- 

 urer, or paid over to him by any justice of the peace, shall be kept as a matter 

 of information ; but all such funds shall be turned into the county funds. All 

 moneys at present in the " dog fund " derived from taxation of dogs, under the 

 existing law, shall be turned into the county fund. All bills incurred under this 

 act, or clue at the time of the passage of this act, shall be paid out of the county 

 fund, and any excess moneys collected under this act shall be used for other 

 county purposes. 



SEC. 16. The assessors for taxation purposes in each township, borough, town, 

 and city of this Commonwealth shall annually, at the time of assessing property 

 as required by law. make diligent inquiry as to the number of dogs owned, har- 

 bored, or kept by any person so assessed. 



The assessor shall annually, on or before the thirty-first day of December, 

 make a complete report, on a blank form furnished by the county commis- 

 sioners, to such commissioners, setting forth the name of every owner of any 

 dog or dogs, how many of each sex are by him owned or harbored, and if a 

 kennel is maintained by any person such fact shall also be stated. It shall be 

 the duty of the assessor, at the time of making the assessment, to notify the 

 owner of such dog or dogs that he must obtain a license for the same as pro- 

 vided for in this act ; but the neglect or failure so to notify such owner shall 

 not relieve the owner from his duty to obtain such licenses. 



SEC. IT. On and after the fifteenth day of January, one thousand nine hun- 

 dred and eighteen, it shall be unlawful for any person to own or keep any dog 

 six months old or over unless such dog is licensed by the treasurer of the county 

 in which the dog is kept ; and unless such dog at all times wears the collar and 

 tag provided for by this act, unless such dogs are temporarily brought into the 

 State for breeding, trial, or show purposes. 



