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Animal Control Officer Proposes Overhaul of City Animal Code; Council Plans Follow-Up Review
Summary
The city’s animal control officer outlined a working draft to simplify and replace the existing animal chapter, adding clearer definitions, new prohibited-acts categories, and proposals for managing dogs, cats, licensing and responses to cruelty and noise complaints.
Erin Castner, Binghamton’s animal control officer, presented a working draft to repeal and replace the city’s animal chapter and outlined enforcement and program priorities at the council work session.
Castner said the current code is “quite confusing” and proposed clearer licensing rules, new prohibited‑acts (including a chase‑and‑harass standard), a category for “biter dogs” that is distinct from state dangerous‑dog proceedings, and retention of livestock provisions with explicit inclusion of rabbits. “My current draft… pretty much completely revamps control of dogs, outlines licensing, with more specific definitions for everything,” Castner said.
She told council…
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