5E Relating to animals; authorizing statutory and home rule charter cities to adopt an ordinance to permit food and beverage service establishments to allow dogs to accompany persons patronizing designated outdoor areas of food and beverage service establishments, prohibiting dangerous and potentially dangerous dogs, preventing the ordinance from prohibiting food and beverage establishments from banning dogs, requiring a permit process, specifying minimum requirements, providing for service animals, requiring the ordinance to include a definition of designated outdoor area consistent with rules adopted by the commissioner of health; modifying provisions regulating dangerous dogs, defining the term provocation; modifying certain dangerous dog registration provisions; transferring registration and enforcement responsibilities from counties to animal control authorities; eliminating the requirement for the commissioner of public safety to provide by rule for design of dangerous dog tags; requiring owners to disclose dog relocation addresses, requiring dog sterilization within a certain period of time; providing for disposition of seized animals, providing for a right to a hearing, providing for posting of a security, requiring notice of declaration of dangerous dog; specifying restrictions on dog ownership, providing for review; prescribing penalties; modifying circumstances requiring dog destruction, requiring a hearing
(Ch. 325, 2008)