[Adopted 11-15-1893 by Ord. No. 6]
No horses, mules, donkeys, horned cattle, swine, sheep or goats
shall be permitted to run at large or stray on any highway of said
Borough.
It shall be the duty of the Police Officer of said Borough to
take up all such strays and to enclose them in the Borough pound or
some other secure place and to report the facts, with a sufficient
description of the stray, to the Mayor, who, if the owner of such
strays shall fail to appear and redeem them within three days after
their impounding, shall proceed forthwith to advertise said strays
in a newspaper published in said Borough or, if none, in one of the
county newspapers, once a week for two successive weeks and also by
handbills posted in said Borough; and if at the expiration of 14 days
from the date of the first advertisement the owner of such strays
shall not offer to reclaim the same, the Mayor shall proceed to set
the same at public sale, giving at least six days' notice of such
sale by not fewer than 20 handbills, posted in the most conspicuous
parts of said Borough. The Mayor shall pay the net proceeds of such
sale into the Borough Treasury for the use of the Borough.
The Borough shall be primarily liable for the sustenance of
said strays from the time of their taking to the time when they are
reclaimed or sold, and all other necessary expenses connected therewith,
and shall be repaid by the owner of such strays or out of the proceeds
of the sale thereof as hereinafter provided.
A.
The owner of such strays may reclaim them at any time before the
sale, upon paying an expense incurred prior to such reclamation, together
with the following fines:
[Amended 6-16-1999 by Ord. No. 1155]
(1)
For horses, mules, donkeys, horned cattle, swine or goats, each animal:
as set forth from time to time by resolution of the Borough Council.
(2)
For one sheep: as set forth from time to time by resolution of the
Borough Council.
(3)
For each additional sheep taken at the same time: as set forth from
time to time by resolution of the Borough Council.
B.
The Police Officer taking the strays shall be entitled to receive
from the Borough 1/2 of said fines.
[Amended 9-21-1988 by Ord. No. 1080; 6-16-1999 by Ord. No. 1155]
Any person who shall rescue or attempt to rescue any such strays,
after they have been taken as aforesaid, or release or attempt to
release the same and any police officer neglecting, either on his
own view or on complaint, to take any such strays shall, upon conviction
before a Magisterial District Judge, be subject to a fine of not more
than $600, plus costs of prosecution, and, in default of payment of
said fine and costs, to imprisonment for a term not to exceed 30 days.