Ord 253 Regulating Dogs CatsCITY OF MENDOTA HEIGHTS
DAKOTA COUNTY
STATE OF MINNESOTA
ORDINANCE NO. 25'3
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 1301, "AN ORDINANCE REGULATING
DOGS AND CATS, PROVIDING FOR THE LICENSING OF DOGS AND CATS, AND
PRESCRIBING PENALTIES FOR VIOLATIONS THEREOF."
SECTION I. Section 20 shall be renumbered as Section 21.
SECTION II. A new Section 20 shall be added to said Ordinance No.
1301, providing in its entirety as follows:
SECTION 20. Dog Waste.
20.1 It is unlawful for any person to cause or permit a dog
to be on any property, whether public or private, not
owned or possessed by such person, unless such person has
in his/her immediate possession a device for the removal
of excrement and a depository for the transmission of
excrement to a proper receptacle located upon property
owned or possessed by such person.
20.2 It is unlawful for any person in control of, causing
or permitting any dog to be on any property, public or
private, not owned or possessed by such person, to fail
to remove excrement left by such dog to a proper
receptacle located on property owned or possessed by such
person.
20.3 The provisions of this section shall not apply to the
ownership or use of seeing eye dogs by blind persons,
dogs used in police activities by the City, or tracking
dogs when used by or with the permission of the City.
SECTION III. This Ordinance shall be in full force and effect from
and after its adoption and publication according to law.
Enacted and ordinance into an ordinance this Tenth day of May, 1988,
ATTEST
Kfthleen M. Swanson
dity Clerk
CITY COUNCIL
CITY OF MENDOTA HEIGHTS
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Charles E. Mertensotto
Mayor