Licensing of horses, mules, asses, and carriages

(1) The owner of any horse, mule, ass or carriage (except such as are kept by the Government or by any officer who is required to keep a horse, mule, ass or carriage in the performance of his public duties) kept or used in the town of Dangriga shall, on or before the first day of January in each year or on or before any day on which such horse, mule, ass or carriage shall be kept or used, provide himself with a licence in respect of each and every 304 Town Councils such horse, mule, ass or carriage as aforesaid which such owner shall keep or use, provided that – (a) any such owner who obtains from the Chief Executive Officer a certificate that such horse, mule, ass or carriage is used partially for the public service may obtain a licence therefor on payment of one half the prescribed fee; (b) any such owner who satisfies the Council that any such horse, mule or ass is kept or used in the town for agricultural purposes may obtain a licence on payment of a fee of one dollar; (c) notwithstanding the provisions of this By-Law any such owner who holds a licence duly granted by a competent authority of another District shall be entitled to keep or use such horse, mule, ass or carriage in the town without the necessity of providing himself with a licence in respect thereof. (2) Applications for such licence shall be made to the Council. (3) Such licence shall be issued by the Town Administrator upon receipt of the sums following, that is to say, if the person liable under this By-Law to provide himself with a licence shall have become so liable before the first day of April in any year he shall pay the full sum prescribed in the First Schedule to these By- Laws; if any person shall become liable as aforesaid after the 31st day of March and before the 1st day of July in any year, he shall only pay three-fourths of such sum; if after the 30th day of June and before the 1st day of October in any year, he shall pay only one-half of such sum; and if after the 30th day of September in any year, he shall pay only one-fourth of such sum. The Town Administrator shall keep a register of all licences so issued, which register shall be open to public inspection at all reasonable hours. First Schedule. Town Councils 305 (4) Every licence so issued shall be in the form prescribed by the Council and bear the date of the day of issue and shall continue in force therefrom until the next succeeding 31st day of December. (5) Every licence issued under this By-Law shall license the holder thereof to keep the number of animals or carriages specified on the return mentioned in By-law 6 of these By-Laws. (6) No licence issued under this By-Law shall be transferable and the animal or carriage which has passed from the ownership of the holder of a licence shall not be included or reckoned as of the number mentioned in such licence. (7) If any person shall, contrary to the provisions of this By- Law, keep or use any horse, mule, or carriage, he shall be guilty of an offence against this By-Law and shall be liable on summary conviction to a penalty not exceeding twenty-five dollars.