Baltimore City Council
File #: 14-0421    Version: 0 Name: Animal Control and Protection - Vicious Animals and Fighting Dogs
Type: Ordinance Status: Failed - End of Term
File created: 7/17/2014 In control: Health Committee
On agenda: Final action: 12/5/2016
Enactment #:
Title: Animal Control and Protection – Vicious Animals and Fighting Dogs FOR the purpose of prohibiting the keeping, training, selling, or breeding of fighting dogs; providing for the investigation and disposition of dogs believed to be attack dogs or fighting dogs; repealing an authorization for certain enforcement officers to kill suspected vicious animals found at large; consolidating existing provisions relating to vicious animals; adjusting the requirements for holding pregnant animals and animals under investigation; defining certain terms; setting certain penalties; clarifying and conforming related provisions; and generally relating to animal control and protection.
Sponsors: Robert Curran, James B. Kraft, Sharon Green Middleton, William H. Cole, IV, Carl Stokes, Helen L. Holton, Bill Henry, William "Pete" Welch, Mary Pat Clarke, Edward Reisinger, Warren Branch, Nick Mosby, President Young, Brandon M. Scott, Rochelle Spector
Indexes: Animal, Animal Control, Protection, Vicious
Attachments: 1. 14-0421~1st Reader.pdf, 2. Health 14-0421.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: Councilman Curran


A BILL ENTITLED

AN ORDINANCE concerning
title
Animal Control and Protection – Vicious Animals and Fighting Dogs

FOR the purpose of prohibiting the keeping, training, selling, or breeding of fighting dogs; providing for the investigation and disposition of dogs believed to be attack dogs or fighting dogs; repealing an authorization for certain enforcement officers to kill suspected vicious animals found at large; consolidating existing provisions relating to vicious animals; adjusting the requirements for holding pregnant animals and animals under investigation; defining certain terms; setting certain penalties; clarifying and conforming related provisions; and generally relating to animal control and protection.
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BY repealing and reordaining, with amendments
Article - Health
Section(s) 10-701, 10-702(g), 10-703, 10-801, 10-804, 10-805, and 10-1102(e)
Baltimore City Revised Code
(Edition 2000)

BY transferring, with amendments
Article - Health
Section(s) 10-704, and 10-706
to
Section 10-703
Baltimore City Revised Code
(Edition 2000)

BY repealing
Article - Health
Section(s) 10-705
Baltimore City Revised Code
(Edition 2000)

SECTION 1. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF BALTIMORE, That the Laws of Baltimo...

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