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f. The Animal Control Officer, or any wise regulating said kennel or agent authorized by the Town premises, or dismissing said petition. Manager, may, at any time during the hours of 9 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., inspect j. The holder of such license or other any kennel or premises for which a person who is the subject of an order Personal or Commercial Kennel under §79-4h may petition the district License has been issued upon his/her court for relief in accordance with reasonable and articulable belief that G.L. c. 140 §137C. there has been a violation of this bi- law or that the basic standards of k. Any person maintaining a personal or cleanliness, proper care and confine- commercial kennel after the license ment of said dogs no longer exist on has been so revoked, or while such the premises. license is so suspended, may be pun. ished by a fine of fifty dollars g. If the Animal Control Officer or other ($50.00) for each day in violation of authorized agent, after inspection, said revocation or suspension. In determines that the kennel or addition to any other legal remedies premises that are the subject of a ken- that may be available, the Animal nel license are not kept in a sanitary or Control Officer or other designated humane condition, or if records are enforcing person, may enforce these not kept as required by law, the Town penalties through the Town's Manager may, by order after hearing, Noncriminal Disposition Bylaw, revoke or suspend such license. If a Chapter 1, Article 1. license has been revoked or sus- pended, the license may be reinstated Section 79-15 Restriction on Number of Dogs per after inspection. Residence h. Upon written petition of ten(10) adult No person shall keep more than four (4) dogs, said residents who live within one quarter dogs being over the age of three months, at any single 1 residence within the Town of Mashpee,unless (1/4)mile of the kennel,filed with the family p Town Manager, setting forth that they a kennel license has been obtained. Those persons are aggrieved or annoyed to an unrea- who kept more than four dogs at a single family resi- sonable extent b one or more dogs at dence, said dogs being properly licensed and recorded Y g the kennel because of excessive bark- in the Town of Mashpee during 2007, may keep said ing or vicious disposition of said dogs in excess of the four dog limit provided a Site dogs, or other conditions connected Plan is filed with the Town Clerk and a Personal with such kennel constituting a public Kennel License is obtained. Said site plan may be nuisance, the Town Manager, within hand-drawn but must include dimensions and refer- seven (7) days after the filing of such ence a plan or deed in the Barnstable Registry of a petition, shall give notice to the Deeds. The dimensions cannot be expanded without owner or keeper of the kennel, the the Plan Review required for new personal kennels and petitioner(s), and any other person the the dogs may not be replaced as to exceed the nine(9) Town Manager determines should be dog limit of a Personal Kennel. Penalty for violation given notice, of a public hearing to be of this section shall be twenty five dollars($25.00)per held within fourteen (14) days after dog in excess per day of violation. the date of such notice by certified mail. Said notice shall also be posted Or take any other action relating thereto. on a Town bulletin board. Submitted by Petition i. Within seven (7) days after such pub- lic hearing, the Town Manager shall Motion made and passed to dispense with reading make an order either revoking or sus- of article at 8:24PM pending such kennel license, or other- 98