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County staff outline changes to animal-services ordinance: dangerous-dog levels, tethering rules and pit-bull spay/neuter requirement
Summary
County staff presented proposed amendments to the animal-services ordinance on June 7 that add levels for 'dangerous' dogs with court appeals, expand tethering rules to all animals, reference state livestock law and keep a breed-restriction requiring spay/neuter for pit bulls.
A county staff member reviewed proposed amendments to Beaufort County's animal-services ordinance at the June 7 council meeting, outlining new classifications for dangerous animals, updated tethering rules, livestock law coordination and a continuing breed restriction for pit bulls that requires spaying or neutering.
The staff presentation described a rewritten section on dangerous animals that introduces levels 1, 2 and 3 with definitions and an appeal process. Appeals of a dangerous-dog determination would go to the magistrate court judge who adjudicated the…
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