273.150. Failure to pay tax--penalty--exceptions.
Failure to pay tax--penalty--exceptions.
273.150. Every owner of a dog and every person who shallsuffer or permit a dog to remain upon such premises under hisimmediate control without having caused such dog to be listed andthe tax thereon to be paid as provided for by sections 273.040 to273.180 shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on convictionthereof fined not less than five dollars nor more thantwenty-five dollars; provided, that none of the provisions ofsections 273.040 to 273.180 shall apply to cities which now haveor may hereafter have a population of three hundred thousandinhabitants or more.
(RSMo 1939 § 14557)Prior revision: 1929 § 12880