Missouri Revised Statutes













Chapter 273

Dogs--Cats

←273.090

Section 273.100.1

273.110→

August 28, 2015

Impounding of dogs--redemption--fees--penalty.

273.100. 1. Every city or town marshal of every incorporated city or

town in this state, within their jurisdiction, shall take up and impound in a

suitable place, the location of which place shall be given by a notice posted

in some conspicuous place in his office, all dogs found running at large in

their respective cities or towns without collars around their necks, marked

as herein provided, and they shall keep such dogs for a period of one week,

and at the expiration of such period shall put such dogs to death by humane

methods.



2. The owner of any such impounded dogs, upon the payment of the tax

herein provided, and a redemption fee of five dollars, may redeem such

impounded dog and the city or town marshal shall be permitted to retain the

sum of two dollars out of each redemption fee so paid, and shall pay over the

balance of the fee on the first day of each month to the treasurer of the

county in which the city or town marshal has jurisdiction, to be accounted for

by the treasurers in the same manner as they are required by sections 273.040

to 273.180, to account for licenses taxes.



3. Any marshal who shall fail or refuse to take up and impound any such

dog shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction thereof fined not less

than five dollars nor more than twenty-five dollars.



(RSMo 1939 § 14554, A. 1949 S.B. 1097)



Prior revision: 1929 § 12877







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