Member of Standing Committee absenting himself from meetings to vacate scat.

(1) No person shall— (a) without the written permission of the Commissioner or otherwise than in conformity with the terms of such permission keep or allow to be kept in any part of the City any swine, horses, cattle, goats, sheep, donkeys, or such other four-footed animals as the Commissioner may, from time to time, by public notice direct; (b) feed any animal, or suffer or permit any animal, to be fed or to feed, with or upon excrementious matter, dung, stable refuse or other filthy matter; (c) keep any animal or bird on his premises so as to be a nuisance or so as to be dangerous. (2) The Commissioner may— (a) specify in the written permission the limit of the number of animals to be kept on particular premises, or (b) refuse to give or renew permission if he shall be of opinion that the keeping of the animals on any premises is or is likely to be a nuisance or danger to any person or objectionable on sanitary grounds. (3) Any swine found straying may be forthwith destroyed and the carcass thereof dis­posed of as the Commissioner shall direct, and no claim shall lie for compensation for any swine so destroyed. (4) The Commissioner shall make provision for affixing marks for purpose of in­dentification on animals in respect of which permission is granted under sub-rule (1).