Section 150 Lists of dogs; refusal to answer person listing dogs; false answers - Massachusetts Statutes

Section 150. Persons authorized or directed by section four of chapter fifty-one or by any special law to make lists of residents three years of age or older shall make a list of all dogs owned by the inhabitants at the time of making lists required under such section and return the same in duplicate to the city or town clerk, or, in Boston, to the police commissioner on or before April first. An owner or keeper of a dog who refuses to answer or answers falsely to persons directed or authorized to make a list of the owners of dogs shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten dollars which, except in Suffolk county, shall be paid into the county treasury.