Doggy Duties

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Attention all dog owners! If you walk your dog in Brookhaven, please be a good neighbor and keep your dog out of your neighbor’s yard and pick up after your dog. When dogs do their business, it is the owner’s duty to clean up. Edmond also has a leash law for dogs.

Please don’t use your neighbor’s trash to dispose of your dog’s droppings. That is considered “theft of services”, so take it home. It can also stink up someone’s garage.

Believe it or not, I have better things to do than to write about dog poop, so try to be a good neighbor.

The Webmaster.

Edmond municipal codes.

7.09.015 – Defecating on sidewalks, public parks, alleys other places open to the public or on certain private property prohibited; possession of waste removal equipment required; prohibition of public similar nuisance.

(a) No owner, keeper, or person having control of any animal or fowl shall fail to immediately remove and dispose of in a sanitary manner any solid waste deposited by such animal or fowl upon any sidewalk, public park, alley, other place open to the public, or from private property before the owner leaves the immediate area where the solid waste was deposited.

(b) No owner, keeper, or person having control of any animal or fowl shall fail to have in his/her possession the equipment necessary to remove his/her animal’s solid waste when accompanied by said animal or fowl on public property.

(c) No owner, keeper or person having control of any animal or fowl shall permit such animal or fowl to destroy or damage property or any kind or to deposit solid waste or to commit a similar nuisance on the private property of a person or the property of the City, including its parks and playgrounds, or any property other than that of the owner of the animal or fowl. (Ord. 2989, § 4, March 27, 2006).

7.09.020 – Turning animals at large.
It is unlawful for any person to open any enclosure in which any animal is confined as required by ordinance so as to turn such animal at large, or in any manner to turn such animal at large. (Ord. 2989, § 4, March 27, 2006).

7.12.010 – Control of dogs; trespassing on public or private property prohibited.
(a) No person shall permit any dog owned, possessed or harbored by him/her:
(1) To trespass upon private property without the consent of the person who owns or controls the property, and without properly confining the dog to that property by means of a substantial fence or similar enclosure of sufficient strength and height to prevent the dog from escaping therefore, or by keeping the dog inside a house or other building, or by a leash at least ten feet in length consisting of a metal chain or other material of sufficient strength to prevent the dog from escaping the premises when the leash or tether is stretched to it’s full length. This section shall not apply to any person who takes a dog upon private property with the consent of the owner or person in control of the property, or upon a street or other public place when the dog is confined in a vehicle or by means of a chain or leash of sufficient strength and length to control the actions of the dog.
(2) To trespass upon any street or other public property unless the dog is:
(a) Under immediate physical control of the owner or other responsible person by confinement in a vehicle; or
(b) Under the immediate physical control of the owner or other responsible person by means of a chain, rope, cord, or leash of not more than six feet in length and of sufficient strength to control the actions of the dog.
(c) For the purposes of this section, the term “immediate physical control” shall mean confinement in a vehicle or control exercised through the physical presence of a person who, at all times, has in his/her possession the chain, rope, cord or leash to which the dog is attached.
(d) As used in this section, “owner” shall mean any person who owns, possesses, harbors, or has permanent care or custody of a dog.
(Ord. 1355, 1983; Ord. 2887, § 2, December 13, 2004; Ord. 2989, § 10, March 27, 2006).

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