Section 347.18 — Tags; Restrictions, Prohibitions.
347.18 TAGS; RESTRICTIONS, PROHIBITIONS. No person, except the owner or the owner’s authorized agent, shall remove any license tag from a dog collar or remove any collar with a license attached thereto from any dog. No person shall keep or harbor a dog wearing a fictitious, altered, or invalid license tag, or a license tag […]
Section 347.19 — Failure To Obtain License.
347.19 FAILURE TO OBTAIN LICENSE. Every town or city clerk shall notify the county attorney of the clerk’s county of every refusal or failure of an owner to obtain a license for keeping a dog, and it shall be the duty of the county attorney to institute proceedings against such owner and against every owner […]
Section 347.20 — Exemptions.
347.20 EXEMPTIONS. Dogs brought into this state temporarily for a period not to exceed 30 days shall be exempt from the provisions of sections 347.08 to 347.21. History: (7297-52) 1939 c 410 s 12
Section 347.21 — Interpretation.
347.21 INTERPRETATION. Sections 347.08 to 347.21 are supplemental to all other laws relating to dogs not expressly referred to therein, and to all laws relating to taxation of dogs as personal property, and shall not be construed as to modify, repeal, or in anywise affect any part or provision of any such laws not expressly […]
Section 347.22 — Damages, Owner Liable.
347.22 DAMAGES, OWNER LIABLE. If a dog, without provocation, attacks or injures any person who is acting peaceably in any place where the person may lawfully be, the owner of the dog is liable in damages to the person so attacked or injured to the full amount of the injury sustained. The term “owner” includes […]
Section 347.11 — Dog Collars To Be Tagged.
347.11 DOG COLLARS TO BE TAGGED. Subdivision 1. Metal tags and license blanks. The clerk or the clerk’s deputy issuing a license shall at the same time deliver to the licensee a metal tag, which shall bear the same serial number as the license. The tag shall also bear the name of the county in […]
Section 347.12 — Fees Paid To County Treasurer Monthly.
347.12 FEES PAID TO COUNTY TREASURER MONTHLY. Every town, or city clerk, or clerk’s deputy, shall at the end of each month pay all license fees received and not before paid, to the county treasurer and, at the same time, report, in writing, to the county auditor the licenses issued during the month and for […]
Section 347.13 — Fees, Dog License Fund; Disbursal; Accounting.
347.13 FEES, DOG LICENSE FUND; DISBURSAL; ACCOUNTING. The license fees so paid to the county treasurer shall be kept in a separate account, which shall be known as the dog license fund and shall be appropriated and disbursed for the purposes and in the manner herein set forth. Expenses necessarily incurred by the county in […]
Section 347.14 — Unlicensed Dogs.
347.14 UNLICENSED DOGS. Subdivision 1. Seizure; impoundment; presumption. Any person may seize, impound, or restrain any unlicensed dog which the person may find running at large. The fact that a dog is without a license attached to a collar shall be presumptive evidence that the dog is unlicensed. The sheriff and sheriff’s deputies or other […]
Section 347.15 — Persons Damaged, Claims Filed.
347.15 PERSONS DAMAGED, CLAIMS FILED. Subdivision 1. Presentation and investigation. The owner of any domestic animals, including poultry and game birds, attacked, chased, worried, injured, or killed by a dog or dogs may, within ten days after the owner shall have knowledge or notice thereof, file a written claim for damages with the clerk of […]