HOUSE BILL No. 5609

 

May 28, 2014, Introduced by Rep. Schor and referred to the Committee on Agriculture.

 

     A bill to amend 1919 PA 339, entitled

 

"Dog law of 1919,"

 

by amending the title and section 1 (MCL 287.261), as amended by

 

1996 PA 63, and by adding section 30a.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

TITLE

 

     An act relating to dogs and domestic animals used as pets; to

 

provide for the protection of live stock livestock and poultry from

 

damage by dogs; providing to provide for the licensing of dogs and

 

other domestic animals; regulating to regulate the keeping of dogs,

 

and authorizing their destruction in certain cases; providing to

 

provide for the determination and payment of damages done by dogs

 

to live stock livestock and poultry; imposing to prescribe the

 

powers and duties on of certain state, county, city, and township

 


agencies, officers, and employes, and to repeal Act No. 347 of the

 

Public Acts of 1917, and providing employees; to authorize certain

 

local ordinances; and to prescribe penalties for the violation of

 

this act.

 

     Sec. 1. (1) This act shall be known and may be cited as the

 

"dog law of 1919"."pet law".

 

     (2) For the purpose of this act:

 

     (a) "Livestock" means horses, stallions, colts, geldings,

 

mares, sheep, rams, lambs, bulls, bullocks, steers, heifers, cows,

 

calves, mules, jacks, jennets, burros, goats, kids and swine, and

 

fur-bearing animals being raised in captivity.

 

     (b) "Miniature goat" means those types of goats commonly known

 

as pygmy, dwarf, and miniature goats.

 

     (c) (b) "Poultry" means all domestic fowl, ornamental birds,

 

and game birds possessed or being reared under authority of a

 

breeder's license pursuant to part 427 (breeders and dealers) of

 

the natural resources and environmental protection act, Act No. 451

 

of the Public Acts of 1994, being sections 324.42701 to 324.42714

 

of the Michigan Compiled Laws.1994 PA 451, MCL 324.42701 to

 

324.42714.

 

     (d) (c) "Owner" when applied to the proprietorship of a dog

 

means every person having who has a right of property in the dog,

 

and every person who keeps or harbors the dog or has it in his the

 

person's care, and every person or who permits the dog to remain on

 

or about any premises occupied by him.the person.

 

     (e) (d) "Kennel" means any establishment wherein or whereon

 

dogs are kept for the purpose of breeding, sale, or sporting

 


purposes.

 

     (f) (e) "Law enforcement officer" means any person employed or

 

elected by the people of the state, or by any municipality, county,

 

or township, whose duty it is to preserve peace or to make arrests

 

or to enforce the law, and includes conservation officers and

 

members of the state police.

 

     (g) (f) "Hunting" means allowing a dog to range freely within

 

sight or sound of its owner while in the course of hunting legal

 

game or an unprotected animal.

 

     Sec. 30a. A county board of commissioners may adopt an

 

ordinance providing for the licensing and regulation of miniature

 

goats that are not associated with a farm or farm operation.

 

     (2) As used in this section, "farm" and "farm operation" mean

 

those terms as they are defined in section 2 of the Michigan right

 

to farm act, 1981 PA 93, MCL 286.472.