Ture ā-Rohe Tiakina Kurī 2019
Dog Management Bylaw 2019
This bylaw promotes responsible dog ownership. It includes rules about where you can take your dog, picking up your dog's waste and keeping more than two dogs in urban areas.
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What the Dog Management Bylaw does
This bylaw implements the Auckland Council Policy on Dogs 2019.
The bylaw:
- regulates the public places where owners can take their dogs
- requires owners to get a licence to keep more than two dogs in an urban area
- requires owners to pick up after their dog when it poos in any public place
- enables the council to make temporary changes to where you can take your dog
- prohibits dog owners from taking a female dog 'in season' (when she is fertile) into any public place
- requires owners to de-sex their dog if it has not been kept under control on more than one occasion
- provides a review process for owners of dogs classified as 'menacing' due to behaviour.
Visit A guide for dog owners to find out more about national legislation for your responsibilities as a dog owner.
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