[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Trustees of the Village
of Corinth as indicated in article histories. Amendments noted where
applicable.]
[Adopted 7-31-1967; amended in its entirety 5-1-1996 by L.L. No. 4-1996 (Ch.
67, Art. I, of the 1983 Code)]
A.
It shall be unlawful for any person owning, boarding, harboring or
otherwise keeping in his custody a dog or dogs to permit such dog
or dogs to run at large within the Village of Corinth, New York, at
any time, elsewhere than upon the premises of the owner or custodian
unless said dog or dogs shall be on a leash or accompanied by a competent
person having control of such dog or dogs, or unless it shall be upon
the premises of another person with the knowledge and assent of such
person.
B.
Any person who owns, boards, harbors or otherwise keeps in his or
her custody a dog, which dog has caused its feces to be deposited
upon any property other than the property of the owner or custodian
of the dog, shall immediately remove such feces or cause it to be
removed and shall dispose of it in a sanitary manner. A person will
be considered to have disposed of feces in a sanitary manner if such
person places such material in a bag or wrapper made of paper, plastic
or some similar material and places it in a refuse container which
is regularly emptied by the Village of Corinth Department of Public
Works or some other refuse collector or otherwise properly disposes
of such material on his own property.
If any dog has bitten a person at any time, the owner thereof
or person harboring or having custody of the same shall keep such
dog properly muzzled at all times thereafter.
It shall be unlawful for any person to keep, harbor or maintain
any dog which frequently engages in unduly loud howling or barking
or conducts itself in such a manner as to unduly annoy any person
other than its owner.
Any peace officer may pick up any dog running at large in violation
of any of the terms of this article and confine said dog in any place
provided by the Village Board of Trustees. The owner or harborer of
said dog may call for and obtain said dog at any time within a period
of seven days after its seizure and confinement or, if notice of the
seizure is given by mail, within a period of nine days from the date
of mailing of the notice, by paying the impoundment fees set out in
§ 117, Subdivision 4, of the Agriculture and Markets Law
and, if the dog is unlicensed, by purchasing a license for said dog.
Any dog not called for and redeemed as aforesaid may be sold and delivered
to any person paying for the keeping of said dog and purchasing a
dog license for said dog, if unlicensed.
If a dog shall be picked up more than one time and the name
of the owner or person harboring said dog can be obtained, the officer
picking up the dog shall charge the owner or person harboring or otherwise
keeping said dog in his custody with violating this article. If said
dog is not redeemed by the payment of the impoundment fees set out
in § 117, Subdivision 4, of the Agriculture and Markets
Law within five days after the determination of the court before which
the charge of violation has been brought, the dog shall be destroyed.
In the event that all charges for keeping of said dog have not been
paid, the keeper of the dog shall present his verified bill for said
keeping of the dog to the Village Board, which Board shall cause the
same to be paid.
This article shall not apply to guide dogs during such time
as such dogs are performing the function for which they are trained.
Any person convicted of violating any provision of this article
shall be punishable by a fine of not less than $25, provided that
if such person shall be found to have violated this article within
the preceding five years, such person shall be punishable by a fine
of not less than $50, and if such person shall be found to have committed
two or more such violations within the preceding five years, such
person shall be punishable by a fine of not less than $100 or imprisonment
for not more than 15 days, or both.
[Adopted 7-17-1968 (Ch. 67, Art. II, of the 1983 Code)]
[Amended 4-28-1999 by L.L. No. 2-1999; 11-5-2008 by L.L. No. 2-2008; 5-7-2014 by L.L. No. 1-2014]
A.
All horses
led or taken by a person shall be outfitted with a Bun-Bag™ or other device
capable of catching and containing the fecal material of such animal.
B.
It shall
be unlawful for any person to take, bring or possess a dog in Pagenstecher
Park or enter or remain in Pagenstecher Park with a dog.
[Added 5-7-2014 by L.L. No. 1-2014]
All cattle, horses, sheep, swine, goats, fowl, geese and turkey
are hereby prohibited from running at large or being pastured in any
public highway, street, lane, park or public place in the Village
of Corinth.
[Added 5-7-2014 by L.L. No. 1-2014]
Any person may, and it shall be the duty of any policeman or
police constable to, distrain and impound all animals or fowl running
at large or pasturing as aforesaid until the owner shall be found
and the penalty or fine for the violation of the preceding or foregoing
section and the fees and all expenses of keeping and the proceedings
are collected and paid, and if within five days no owner shall be
found, such animal or fowl shall be sold in the manner prescribed
by law and statute in reference to animals distrained or strayed.
[Amended 2-23-1983 by L.L. No. 1-1983]
Any person committing an offense against the provisions of this
article shall be guilty of a violation under the Penal Law and, upon
conviction thereof, shall be punishable for each offense by a fine
of not more than $250 or by imprisonment for not more than 15 days,
or both.
