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Baltimore City Council
File #: 07-0740    Version: 0 Name: Vicious Dogs - Owner, Keeper Precluded from New Licenses
Type: Ordinance Status: Failed - End of Term
File created: 7/16/2007 In control: City Council
On agenda: Final action: 12/5/2007
Enactment #:
Title: Vicious Dogs - Owner, Keeper Precluded from New Licenses FOR the purpose of precluding the owner or keeper of a dog found to be a vicious dog from obtaining a new license for any other dog for a certain period.
Sponsors: Belinda Conaway, Sharon Green Middleton, Mary Pat Clarke, James B. Kraft, President Young, Edward Reisinger, Vernon E. Crider
Indexes: Dogs, Vicious
Attachments: 1. 07-0740- 1st Reader.pdf
EXPLANATION: CAPITALS indicate matter added to existing law.
[Brackets] indicate matter deleted from existing law.

* WARNING: THIS IS AN UNOFFICIAL, INTRODUCTORY COPY OF THE BILL.
THE OFFICIAL COPY CONSIDERED BY THE CITY COUNCIL IS THE FIRST READER COPY.
INTRODUCTORY*

CITY OF BALTIMORE
COUNCIL BILL


Introduced by: Councilmember Conaway


A BILL ENTITLED

AN ORDINANCE concerning
Title
Vicious Dogs - Owner, Keeper Precluded from New Licenses

FOR the purpose of precluding the owner or keeper of a dog found to be a vicious dog from obtaining a new license for any other dog for a certain period.
Body
BY renumbering
Article - Health
Section(s) 10-715
to be
Section(s) 10-716
Baltimore City Revised Code
(Edition 2000)

BY adding
Article - Health
Section(s) 10-715
Baltimore City Revised Code
(Edition 2000)


SECTION 1. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF BALTIMORE, That the Laws of Baltimore City read as follows:

Baltimore City Revised Code

Article - Health

Title 10. Animal Control and Protection

Subtitle 7. Vicious Dogs





§ 10-715. OWNER, KEEPER PRECLUDED FROM NEW LICENSE.

THE OWNER OR KEEPER OF ANY DOG FOUND BY THE BOARD TO BE A VICIOUS DOG IS, FOR 1 YEAR AFTER THE BOARD'S DECISION BECOMES FINAL, PRECLUDED FROM OBTAINING A NEW LICENSE FOR ANY OTHER DOG.

§ 10-716. [10-715.] Judicial and appellate review.

(a) Judicial review.

A party aggrieved by a decision of the Board under this subtitle may seek judicial review of that decision by petition to the Circuit Court for Baltimore City in accordance with the Maryland Rules of Procedure.

(b) Appellate review.

A party to the judicial review may appeal the court's f...

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