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Mooresville staff outline amendments to animal ordinance; adoption set for March 3
Summary
Town staff presented a second reading of proposed changes to Chapter 3 of Mooresville’s animal ordinance that would expand where animals must be under restraint, require waste disposal, add inspection authority for public animal exhibits, ban sales of live animals in public lots and clarify penalties; adoption is scheduled for March 3.
Town of Mooresville staff presented a second reading of proposed amendments to Chapter 3 of the town’s animal ordinance, and told the board that adoption is scheduled for the March 3 meeting.
The rewrite would remove a duplicate provision in section 3.2, expand the leash requirement in current section 3-4 so animals must be under “direct control or restraint” in all public places (while allowing off-leash use in designated leash-free parks), add an inspection provision for public exhibits of animals, require disposal of dog waste (new 3-6), reiterate rules for keeping animals outside dwellings under the UDA (3-7), and prohibit selling live animals in…
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