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Committee authorizes drafting ordinance to adopt state vicious-dog statute into city code
Summary
Following a letter about a recent dog attack, the committee directed staff to draft an ordinance adopting Wisconsin Statute 174.02 into Waukesha’s municipal code and recommended prompt council consideration.
The Waukesha City Ordinance and Licensing Committee voted Oct. 13 to ask staff to draft an ordinance that would adopt Wisconsin Statute 174.02 into the city’s municipal code, creating a local mechanism to cite owners for dog attacks and to assess forfeitures.
City legal staff said the action responds to a letter from an attorney representing a person injured in a dog attack and to the city’s recent loss of county-level humane-officer services. Staff proposed adopting 174.02, subsection 2, which sets out owner liability and forfeiture amounts: up to $2,500 for a first offense and up to $5,000 for…
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