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 poo and keeping more than two dogs in urban areas.

This bylaw sets out our Policy on Dogs. It requires:

• dog owners to comply with dog access rules set out in Schedule 1 and 2 of the Policy on Dogs (clauses 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10)
• a person or business to get approval and comply with conditions to walk more than four dogs and up to 12 dogs at a council park or beach (clauses 9A, 9B and 9C)
• owners to immediately remove and dispose of their dog’s poo (clause 11)
• all owners on an urban residential property to get a license to keep more than two dogs on the property, regardless of who owns the dogs (clauses 12 and 13)
• an owner to neuter (desex) their dog if it has not been kept under control on more than one occasion (clauses 14, 15 and 16).

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