File #: Int 0361-2003    Version: * Name: Requiring dogs to be restrained by a leash or chain.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Parks and Recreation
On agenda: 1/29/2003
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring dogs to be restrained by a leash or chain unless otherwise authorized by the commissioner of the department of parks and recreation, or any other law, rule or regulation.
Sponsors: Bill Perkins, Joseph P. Addabbo, Jr., Charles Barron, Simcha Felder, Miguel Martinez, James Sanders, Jr., Larry B. Seabrook, Kendall Stewart, Albert Vann, Robert Jackson
Council Member Sponsors: 10

Int. No. 361

 

By Council Members Perkins, Addabbo, Barron, Felder, Martinez, Sanders, Seabrook, Stewart, Vann and Jackson

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring dogs to be restrained by a leash or chain unless otherwise authorized by the commissioner of the department of parks and recreation, or any other law, rule or regulation.

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Chapter 1 of title 18 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 18-133 to read as follows:

§ 18-133 Dogs to be restrained. Any person who owns, possesses or controls a dog shall not permit it to be in any park within the jurisdiction of the department unless the dog is effectively restrained by a leash or chain not more than six feet long; provided, however, the commissioner of the department may authorize certain time periods during which dogs may be unrestrained in designated unenclosed areas within the jurisdiction of the department. This section shall not be interpreted or construed to permit a person who owns, possesses or controls a dog to allow such dog to be unrestrained where it is prohibited or otherwise restricted by any other applicable law, rule or regulation.

§2. This local law shall take effect immediately.

 

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