SUMMARY OFFENCES.
No. 1 of 1845.
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15. When any such noise as aforesaid is made in or upon any dwelling-house or premises, if it is impracticable or difficult to apprehend, discover, or identify the person so making it, it shall be lawful for the Magistrate, on information thereof, to summon before him the proprietor or occupier, or inhabitant or person in charge, of such dwelling-house or premises, and if it appears that such noise was made by the direction or with the knowledge, sanction, sufferance, or permission of the proprietor, occupier, inhabitant, or person in charge, to impose on him a fine not exceeding 100 dollars.
16.--(1) It shall be lawful for any police constable to destroy any dog or other animal reasonably suspected to be in a rabid state, or which has been bitten by any dog or animal reasonably suspected to be in a rabid state.
(2) The owner of any such dog or animal who permits the same to go at large, after having information or reasonable ground for believing it to be in a rabid state, or to have been bitten by a dog or other animal in a rabid state, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding 100 dollars.
17. It shall be lawful for any police constable to destroy any dog which is found straying or wandering about during the day-time without any owner and not wearing a collar with the name and residence of the owner inscribed thereon; and any such constable is hereby further authorised to destroy any dog which is found straying or wandering about between the hours of 10 p.m. and 5 a.m.
18. No person, other than a person acting in obedience to lawful authority, shall discharge any cannon or other firearm of greater calibre than a common fowling-piece within 300 yards of any dwelling-house to the annoyance of any inhabitant thereof; and every person who, after being warned of the annoyance by any inhabitant, so discharges any such firearm, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding 100 dollars.
*As amended by No. 50 of 1911 and No. 51 of 1911.
*As amended by No. 51 of 1911.