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MI HB6301
Bill
Status
9/5/2018
Primary Sponsor
Beau LaFave
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AI Summary
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Eliminates dog licensing requirements and removes provisions requiring dogs to wear license tags, while maintaining protections for livestock and poultry from dog damage.
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Allows animal control officers and law enforcement officers to issue citations for violations of the dog law, replacing prior licensing-based enforcement mechanisms.
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Permits any person to kill a dog (except service animals) caught in the act of pursuing, worrying, or wounding livestock or poultry, or attacking persons, with no liability for such killing.
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Authorizes district courts to order dogs killed or confined to owner's premises based on complaints regarding running at large, property destruction, attacks on persons, or vicious habits.
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Repeals 17 sections of the original 1919 Dog Law while updating terminology for gender neutrality and modernizing statutory references; takes effect 90 days after enactment, contingent on companion bills HB 6297 and HB 6298 also being enacted.
Legislative Description
Animals; dogs; licensing of dogs; remove requirement. Amends title & secs. 1, 2, 4, 10b, 19, 26a, 26b & 27 of 1919 PA 339 (MCL 287.261 et seq.) & repeals secs. 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 9a, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 14a, 15, 16, 17 & 29 of 1919 PA 339 (MCL 287.265 et seq.). TIE BAR WITH: HB 6296'18, HB 6297'18
Animals: dogs
Last Action
Bill Electronically Reproduced 09/05/2018
9/6/2018