HIS CHAPTER 50. An Act to amend The Domestic Animals (Assented to April 2, 1927.) IS MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Alberta, enacts as follows: 1. This Act may be cited as "The Domestic Animals (Un- Short title organized Territory) Act Amendment Act, 1927." 2. The Domestic Animals (Unorganized Territory) Act, Section 8a being chapter 67 of the Revised Statutes of Alberta, 1922, added is amended by adding as section 8a, immediately after section 8, the following: of area within domestic "8a.-(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Establishment Act, the Lieutenant Governor in Council may at any time, which no and from time to time save as is hereinafter excepted, animals may establish any part of the Province as an area, whether such be impounded area or any parts thereof are included in a pound district or pound districts or not, within which no domestic animals, whether prohibited or not, shall be impounded, unless they have been captured whilst doing damage or after having done damage to or upon land surrounded by a lawful fence. "(2) When any such area has been established, no action For damages shall lie in respect of damage done by domestic animals except such damage as aforesaid. "(3) This section shall not apply to entire animals or mischievous animals." 3. Section 18a is added to the said Act, immediately after Section 18a section 18, as follows: added of pound district by Lieutenant as to "18a.-(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Establishment Act, the Lieutenant Governor in Council may by order establish any part of the Province save as is hereinafter excepted, as a pound district, either upon his own motion or upon petition and may provide in such order that Restrictions domestic animals or any class or classes thereof, owned impounding by residents of the district, running at large therein, shall not be impounded unless they have been captured whilst doing damage or after having done damage to or upon land surrounded by a lawful fence, and that no animals Application of Act Coming into force of Act action for damages shall lie in respect of damage done therein by domestic animals belonging to residents except damage done to or upon land surrounded by a lawful fence. "(2) Any such order may define who are to be considered residents within the meaning of this section, and may prescribe the number of domestic animals, or of any class of domestic animals, with respect to which a resident shall be entitled to the privileges accorded by this section. "(3) This section shall not apply to entire animals or mischievous animals." 4. This Act shall not apply to that portion of the Province of Alberta lying west of range ten, west of the fourth meridian, and between the Red Deer and the Bow Rivers. 5. This Act shall come into force on the day upon which it is assented to. CHAPTER 51. An Act to amend The Domestic Animals Act (Municipalities). (Assented to April 2, 1927.) HIS MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Alberta, enacts as follows: 1. This Act may be cited as "The Domestic Animals Act Short title (Municipalities) Amendment Act, 1927." 2. The Domestic Animals Act (Municipalities), being Section 16 chapter 25 of the Statutes of Alberta, 1923, is amended as amended to section 16 thereof, by striking out subsection (4) and by substituting therefor the following: land "(4) For the purpose of any such by-law a person who owner of holds the land in question either in freehold or as a lessee of patented land for a year at least at a rent which can reasonably be considered the full annual value of such land, or occupies land under an agreement for sale or by virtue of a homestead entry, and only such persons, shall be deemed to own the land." 3. Section 24 of the said Act is amended by inserting Section 24 therein after the word "pound" the words "within the amended municipality in which such animal is captured." 4. Section 25 of the said Act is amended- (b) as to subsection (4) thereof by inserting after the (c) by adding at the end thereof the following subsec tion: "(5) The council or a committee of the council upon conducting an investigation on any appeal shall be entitled to Section 25 amended Costs of appeal to council Section 31 amended Section 58a added Round-ups Rules and regulations Section 16 amended Coming into force of Act charge a fee of two dollars, which shall belong to the general revenue of the district, and may order that the deposit of either party to the appeal be applied for that purpose, and that any other deposit be returned to the party making the same, provided that if no investigation is held no fee shall be chargeable and the said deposits shall be returned to the persons making the same." 5. Section 31 of the said Act is amended by adding at the end thereof the following: "together with a deposit of the sum of two dollars as security for the cost of an investigation upon an appeal." 6. Section 58a is added to the said Act immediately after section 58, as follows: "58a.-(1) A council may with the consent in writing of the Minister by by-law provide for the holding of a roundup of all horses and cattle unlawfully running at large in the municipality and may further provide that a charge of one dollar may be made in respect of each such animal rounded up, and that after the expiration of forty-eight hours from the completion of the round-up all such animals as may have been rounded up and shall not then have been claimed shall be deemed to be impounded and shall be dealt with and disposed of under the provisions of this Act. "(2) The Lieutenant Governor in Council may from time to time prescribe rules and regulations governing and regulating all or any round-ups under this section." 7. Section 16 of the said Act is amended as to subsection (2) thereof by adding at the end thereof the following: "and the council of the municipality may at any time demand from any person proof by oath or otherwise of the number of cattle owned by him which are so grazing and of the number of acres of which he is deemed to be the owner under the provisions of subsection (4)." 8. This Act shall come into force on the day upon which it is assented to. |