Issuance of license
When someone buys a dog license, the county clerk gives them a metal plate (a tag) with a number on it, plus a paper certificate. The certificate lists the license number, the year, the owner's name and address, and the dog's sex, color, and description. The clerk keeps ten cents from each license fee for their own services, then sends the rest of the money to the county treasurer. The county treasurer puts all that money into a special fund called the "County Dog License Fund." That fund is only used to pay people who lost livestock or poultry because a dog hurt or killed them — but only up to what those animals were worth at the time.
273.070. of — — — license fees — — purposes. — 1. County clerks shall licenses to applicants and shall to the applicants a having the number corresponding to that of the license stamped thereon and shall deliver to such a certificate from the book furnished to him by the , which said certificates, as well as the margin or part thereof remaining in the book after cutting out the certificate, shall contain the number of the license, the year for which the same is granted, the name and residence of the owner of the dog, and the sex, color and description of the dog for which the license is paid and the amount of the tax paid therefor.
2. Such clerk shall retain out of the money received for such license issued the sum of ten cents, which shall cover all his services under sections 273.040 to 273.180, and he shall pay the balance and all other sums received by him under the of sections 273.040 to 273.180, less the cost of license tags, books, blank applications and affidavits and the cost of transmitting the balance to the treasurer of the county.
3. The treasurer of the county shall set any and all sums so received apart in a separate to be known as a "County Dog License Fund", and such fund shall be used only for the purpose of compensating persons who have suffered loss or damage through injury or killing by dogs of any or owned by them and located in said county at the time of such injury or killing, in an amount not to exceed the thereof at the time of such injury or killing. The of each county in this state is to expend and draw county against such fund only as herein provided; provided, that sections 273.040 to 273.180 shall not be to prevent suits at law for caused to livestock or poultry by dogs.
(RSMo 1939 § 14548)
Prior revision: 1929 § 12874
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