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KENTUCKY LEASH LAWS
258.215 impounding,
and
destruction of dog lacking tag or other
identification –
Exemption of hunting dog.
Peace officers, dog wardens, or animal control officers shall seize and
impound any dog which does no bear a proper license tag or other legible
identification which is found running at large, but if an officer, dog
warden, or animal control officer, after diligent effort to do so, shall
fail to seize the dog, it shall then become his duty to destroy the dog by
any reasonable and humane means. Any dog which an officer, dog warden or
animal control seizes shall be impounded for a period of five (5) or seven
(7) days, to be determined by the local animal shelter. If the dog is not
claimed by the Owner or sold in accordance with the provisions of this
chapter, then the dog may be destroyed in some humane manner. Any animal
shelter, public or private, which takes in stray dogs and doesn’t have
regular hours for public access, shall post semimonthly either in a local
newspaper with the highest circulation in the county, the shelter location,
hours of operation, the period that impounded dogs shall be held, and a
contact number.
A hound or other hunting dog which has been released from confinement for
hunting purposes shall be deemed to be under reasonable control of it’s
owner or handler while engaged in or returning from hunting, and, if a
hunting dog becomes temporarily lost from a pack or wanders from actual
control or sight of it’s owner or handler, the owner or handler shall not
be deemed in violation of the provisions of this section as a result of the
dog’s having become temporarily to lost or having wandered from immediate
control or sight of the owner or handler.
Effective July 14,2000
History: Amended 2000 KY Acts ch. 179, sec. 5, effective July 14, 2000.—Amended
1998 KY Acts ch 440, sec. 3, effective July 15, 1998. – Created 1954 KY Acts
ch 119, sec 24, effective June 17, 1954
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