540.Every local corporation may make, amend or repeal by-laws:
(1) to prevent or cause to be done away with all abuses prejudicial to agriculture, and not provided for by law;
(2) to establish pounds, in which animals found straying on beaches, flats, roads or public places, or on the property of another than their owner, may be impounded.
M.C. 1916, a. 399; 1979, c. 51, s. 259; 1982, c. 2, s. 14; 1982, c. 63, s. 29.