26 FARMERS' BULLETIN 935. 



SEC. 18. It shall be the duty of every police officer to seize and detain any 

 dog or dogs which bear a proper license tag, and which are found running at 

 large and unaccompanied by its owner or keeper. It shall be the duty of every 

 police officer to kill any dog which does not bear a proper license tag, which is 

 found running at large. The chief of police or his agents, of any city, the high 

 constable of any borough, or the constable of any borough not having a high 

 constable, and the coristable of any incorporated town or township, shall cause 

 any dog bearing a proper license tag and so seized and detained to be properly 

 kept and fed, and shall cause immediate notice, either personal or by registered 

 mail, to be given to the person in whose name the license was procured, or his 

 agent, to claim such dog within ten days. The owner of a dog so detained shall 

 pay all reasonable expenses incurred by reason of its detention, under the pro- 

 visions of this section, before the dog is returned. 



SEC. 19. If, after ten days from the giving of such notice, such dog has not 

 been claimed, such chief of police or his agent, constable, or high constable shall 

 dispose of such dog by sale, or by destruction in some humane manner. No dog 

 so caught and detained shall be sold for the purpose of vivisection. All moneys 

 derived from the sale of such dog, after deducting the expense of its detention, 

 shall be paid to the county treasurer and by him placed in the county fund. 

 For services under sections eighteen and nineteen of this act, such officers shall 

 be paid the sum of one dollar for detaining a licensed dog, and the sum of one 

 dollar for the killing of a dog. All expenses incurred under this act or the pre- 

 ceding section, and not otherwise provided for, shall be paid by the proper 

 county. 



SEC. 20. For failure to perform his duty under the provisions of this act, 

 such police officer shall be liable to a penalty of two dollars for each offense, 

 which amount shall be deducted from any amount due such police officer from 

 the county, at any settlement between such officer and the county commis- 

 sioners. 



SEC. 21. Any person may kill any dog which he sees in the act of pursuing, 

 worrying, or wounding any live stock, or attacking human beings, whether or 

 not such dog bears the license tag required by the provisions of this act. There 

 shall be no liability on such person in damages or otherwise for such killing. 



Any unlicensed dog that enters any field shall constitute a private nuisance, 

 and the owner or tenant of such field, or their agent or servant, may kill such 

 dog while it is in the field, without liability or responsibility of any nature for 

 Such killing. 



Licensed clogs when accompanied by their owner or handler shall not be 

 included under the provisions of this section, unless caught in the act of worry- 

 ing, wounding, or killing any live stock, or attacking human beings. 



SEC. 22. All dogs are hereby declared to be personal property and subjects 

 of larceny. Except as provided in section twenty-one of this act, it is unlawful 

 for any person, except a police officer, to kill, injure, or poison, or attempt to 

 kill, injure, or poison, any dog which bears a license tag for the current year. 



It is unlawful for any person to place any dog-button, or any poison of any 

 description, in any place on his own premises or elsewhere where it may be 

 easily found and eaten by dogs. 



It shall be unlawful for any person, except the owner or authorized agent, 

 to remove any license tag from a dog collar, or to remove any collar with a 

 license tag attached thereto, from any dog. 



It shall be unlawful for any person to harbor, or permit to remain about his 

 premises, any dog not having a license. 



This section does not prohibit the Board of Game Commis's loners, or any of 

 its officers and agents, from placing poison, under the provisions of the game 

 laws of this Commonwealth. 



SEC. 23. It is unlawful for the owner or keeper of any female dog to permit 

 such female dog to go beyond the premises of such owner or keeper at any 

 time she is in heat, unless such female dog is held properly in leash. 



SEC. 24. The owner or keeper of every dog shall at all times, between sunset 

 and sunrise of each day, keep such dog, either (a) confined within an en- 

 closure from which it can not escape, or (b) firmly secured by means of a 

 collar and chain or other device so that it can not stray beyond the premises 

 on which it is secured, or (c) under the reasonable control of some person, 

 or when engaged in lawful hunting accompanied, by an owner or handler. 



SEC. 25. Whenever any person sustains any loss or damage to any live stock 

 or poultry by dogs, or any live stock of any person is necessarily destroyed 

 because of having been bitten by a dog, such person, or his agent or attorney, 



