X 7^ " — LAC LA CROIX INDIAN RESERVE BY-LAW NO, 3/77 A By-Law of the Lac La Croix Indian Reserve to regulate and control dogs. The Lac La Croix Indian Reserve, in Council assembled, enacts as follows: 1. This By-Law may be referred to as "THE DOG BY-LAW." 2. All dogs within the geographic area of the Lac La Croix Indian Reserve must be licensed and carry an identification tag within six weeks of the coming into effect of this By-Law. 3. The band office will sell identification tags and maintain registry books where any dogs within the geographic area of the reserve must be registered. 4. A license fee shall be paid to the chief and band council at the time of registration, and such fee shall be: (a) $2.00 for male dogs (b) $2.00 for sprayed dogs (c) $10.00 for female dogs 5. No household or family which has more than two dogs residing with it at any time will, from the date of receiving notice from the constable to get rid of the extra dog or dogs, have thirty days to get rid of the extra dog or dogs. After thirty days the constable may issue a summons against the owner of the dog or any member of the family or household.
( (2) Upon conviction of having more than two dogs per household the fine shall be $25.00 for each dog over the permitted limit of two residing with the family or household, and the Constable shall then seize the dog or dogs which were the subject matter of the conviction (only after the conviction), and attempt to locate a new home for the dog or dogs but if unsucessful shall destroy the dog or dogs. The owner of a dog which is not licensed and registered and carrying the proper tag in accord with this By-Law shall be penalized as follows: (a) First offence a fine of $25.00 (b) Second offence a fine of $50.00 (c) Third offence dog shall be destroyed. Any dog which bites or attacks any person within the geographic boundaries of the reserve shall be destroyed by the Constable. No dog shall run deer (chasing after or killing deer). No dog shall steal from man set traps and snares. The owner of any dog caught running deer or stealing from traps or snares shall, on the first offence, be fined $50.00, and on a second offence shall have the offending dog destroyed. (6) The method of destroying dogs shall be by shooting performed by the constable (or by such person as is designated by the chief and band council), on the order of the Tribal Judge.
1 (3) 7. PROCEDURE Any person charged with an offence under this By-Law is subject to the procedures set out in the Court System By-Law. 8. VALIDITY This By-Law shall come into force on the 14th day of December A.D. 1977. DONE AND PASSED in Council assembled, this 14th day of December A.D. 1977. 1 Steve Jourdain Sr.I* CHIEF
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