Chap.  456.         AN    ACT    RELATIVE    TO    THE    LICENSING    AND

KEEPING   OF   DOGS   IN   THE  TOWN  OF   BELCHERTOWN .

Be it enacted,   etc.,   as follows:

SECTION 1. Notwithstanding the provisions of section one hundred and thirty-nine of chapter one hundred and forty of the General Laws or any other provision of law to the contrary, the annual fees to be charged by the town of Belchertown for the issuance of licenses for dogs shall be as follows: unspayed females and unneutered males, seven dollars, spayed females and neutered males, four dollars, kennel license, four dogs, twenty-eight dollars.

SECTION 2. Notwithstanding the provisions of section one hundred and forty-seven of said chapter one hundred and forty or any other provision of law to the contrary, all money received for licenses or from the sale of dog licenses by the town of Belchertown or recovered as fines or penalties by said town under the provisions of said chapter one hundred and forty relating to dogs, shall be paid into the treasury of said town and   shall   not  thereafter   be  paid  over  by  the  town   treasurer   to

Hampshire county.

SECTION 3. Notwithstanding the provisions of section one hundred and thirty-seven of said chapter one hundred and forty or any other provision of law to the contrary, the registering, numeral listing, description and licensing of dogs, if kept in said town, shall be conducted in the office of the town clerk of said town.

Approved November 2,  1983.