2. All acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith are, to the extent of such conflict, hereby repealed.

Approved March 28, 1918.

CHAPTER 112.

AN ACT relating to dogs, the promotion of live stock industries, and the protection of live stock and poultry from damage by dogs; providing for the licensing of dogs; regulating the keeping of dogs, and authorizing their destruction in certain cases; providing for the protection of licensed dogs and for dogs temporarily imported for trial, show, and breeding purposes; prescribing certain privileges for hunting dogs, providing for listing of dogs by county assessors and penalty for his failure to so list; providing for the assessment of damages done by dogs, and payment thereof by the proper county to the owners of live stock and poultry, and of damages to licensed dogs; imposing powers and duties on certain State and county officers and providing penalties and fees.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky:

1.

That this act shall be known and may be cited as an act to promote and protect live stock industries in Kentucky.

2. For the purpose of this act the following terms shall have the following meanings respectively designated for each:

horses,

The term "live stock" shall include stallions, colts, geldings, mares, sheep, rams, lambs, bulls, bullocks, steers, heifers, cows, calves, mules, jacks, jennets, burros, goats, kids and swine.

The term "poultry" shall include all domestic fowl.

The word "person" shall include State and local officers or employes, individuals, corporations, copartnerships and associations. Singular words shall

include the plural. Masculine words shall include the feminine and neuter.

The word "owner" when applied to the proprietorship of a dog, shall include every person having a right of property in such dog, and every person who keeps or harbors such dog or has it in his care, and every person who permits such dog to remain on or about any premises occupied by him.

3. The term "kennel" shall mean any establishment wherein or whereon dogs are kept for the purpose of breeding, sale or sporting purposes.

The term "police officer" shall mean any sheriff or his deputies or any one appointed by the sheriff in this Commonwealth, and whose duty it is to enforce this law.

4. On or before the first day of January one thousand nine hundred and nineteen and on or before the first day of January of each year thereafter, the owner of any dog shall apply to the county court clerk or deputy county clerk, as hereinafter provided, of the county in which said owner resides, either orally or in writing, for a license for each such dog owned or kept by him. Such application shall state the breed, sex, age, color, and markings of such dog, and the name and address of the last previous owner; and shall be accompanied by a fee of one dollar for the first male dog for which license is applied by the owner, and by a fee of two dollars for the first female dog for which license is applied by the owner, and by a fee of two dollars for each male and a fee of four dollars for each female for which license is applied subsequent and in addition to the first male or female licensed as above provided for.

5. Such license shall be issued on a form prepared and supplied by the Commissioner of Agri

culture to said county court clerk. Such license shall be dated and numbered, and shall bear the name of the county issuing it and a description of the dog licensed. All licenses shall be void on the first day of January of the following year. The Commissioner of Agriculture shall furnish the county court clerk of each county, with each license, a metal tag. Such tag shall be affixed to a substantial collar. The collar shall be furnished by the owner, and with the tag attached shall at all times be kept on the dog for which the license is issued.

6. The Commissioner of Agriculture shall prepare and furnish to the county court clerk annually, metal tags to be given by the county court clerk to the owners of dogs when such owners shall pay the license fee for said dogs. Such tags shall be of metal, and shall bear the name of county issuing it, and a serial number corresponding with the number on the license issued to said owner, as provided in the preceding section of this act. Such tags shall also have impressed thereon the calendar year for which such tag is issued, and shall be equipped with a substantial metal fastening device. The general shape of said tag shall be changed from year to year. Said blank license and said metal tags shall be paid for by the county for which said license and tags are issued.

If any such tag is lost it shall be replaced without cost by the county court clerk, upon application by the person to whom the original license was issued, and upon production of such license.

7. Any deputy county clerk within the county applying to the county court clerk, and having received and receipted for necessary blanks and tags, may issue such dog license and tags in like manner as prescribed for the issuance of licenses by the county

court clerk, and for so doing shall receive the same fee in the same manner as is provided for the county clerk in Section 15 hereof.

Within ten days after the issuance of any license by him he shall report same to the county clerk and turn over to him all receipts for licenses issued, whereupon the county court clerk shall make record of, and otherwise treat, said license as though it had been issued from his office, except that he shall also note upon his record the name of the deputy clerk issuing the license.

Every deputy clerk shall deliver the book or books from which he has issued licenses, together with the stubs therein properly filled out and showing the names of each licensee and the number of the license issued to him, to the county clerk before the first day of January of each year.

8. Any person becoming the owner, after the first day of January of any year, of any dog which has not already been licensed, shall forthwith apply for and secure a license for such dog in the same manner as the annual license is obtained under the provisions of this act.

9. No license or license tag issued for one dog shall be transferable to another dog, except as provided in Sections 11 and 12 of this act. Whenever the ownership or possession of any dog is permanently transferred from one person to another within the same county, the license of such dog may be likewise transferred, upon notice given to the county court clerk. This act does not require the procurement of a new license, or the transfer of a license already secured, when the possession of a dog is temporarily transferred for the purpose of hunting game, or for breeding, trial, or show, in this Commonwealth.

10. Whenever any dog licensed in one county is permanently removed to another county, the county court clerk of the county where the license was issued shall, upon the application of the owner or keeper of such dog, certify such license to the county court clerk of the county to which the dog is removed. Such county court clerk shall thereupon, and upon the payment of a fee of twenty-five cents, issue a license and tag for such dog in the county to which it is removed.

This section does not apply to dogs used during the hunting season for hunting game, or temporarily for breeding, trial, or show in the Commonwealth; nor for the transortation of dogs, for hunting, breeding, trial, or show purposes, the home county license holding good for such purposes throughout the Commonwealth.

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 court clerk for a kennel license, entitling him to keep or operate such kennel. Such license shall be issued by the county court clerk on a form prepared and supplied by the Commissioner of Agriculture to the county court clerk, and shall entitle the licensee to keep any number of dogs 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 ten ($10.00) dollars for ten dogs or less, and twenty-five ($25.00) dollars for more than ten dogs permitted to be kept under the kennel license. With each kennel license the county court clerk 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.