553. Every local municipality may make, amend or repeal by-laws to order dogs to be kept muzzled or tied up; to prevent them from being at large without their masters or other persons to take charge of them; to impose a tax on the owner of every dog kept in the territory of the municipality; to authorize any officer appointed for such purpose to destroy any unmuzzled dog at large and considered dangerous by such officer.
M.C. 1916, a. 406; 1937, c. 99, s. 1; 1977, c. 53, s. 32; 1990, c. 4, s. 249; 1996, c. 2, s. 298.