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Under HB 247 courts can order humane destruction in serious cases, county slides show
Summary
Montgomery County's ARC told commissioners that HB 247 expands judicial authority to order humane destruction of dogs in cases involving killing or serious injury to a person and allows courts to order destruction in other severe incidents; the presentation cites ORC provisions and penalty tiers.
During a presentation to the Board, Amy Bohardt of the Animal Resource Center summarized the circumstances in which courts may or must order humane destruction of a dog under the new law. Slides presented a two-tier approach: courts 'may' order destruction for certain dangerous or injurious acts and 'must' order destruction when a dog kills a person or causes statutorily defined serious injury.
The county presentation tied those disposition rules to criminal-penalty provisions and to ORC citations used in the slide deck. Staff noted that the change alters potential case outcomes and emphasized that the court 'shall order humane destruction' in the gravest circumstances, a procedural shift that county legal staff and law enforcement will need to follow in cases that proceed to court.
