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Tetheaing Committee Report <br />131 <br />I$ <br />Jnly 30P, 2007 <br />• 3k kolementation phase will involve a year hnp period of extensive Mblic oVWzph and <br />education regnd' g the ordinance amendmont and Ragm of tethering .followed by a six- <br />month period in which only warnings are issued. This is to ensure that dog owners have <br />ample Mice of the new ordinance and time to trSWkbn to other methods of confine <br />and take advantage of community resources to help with the implementation of alternatives. <br />• Public outreach should iaclude rmurces to help dog owners implement alternatives to the <br />restraint of dogaby tethering. as well as information about the new ordinance. The <br />Committee believes that public outreach and education is pivotal to its recommendations. <br />These pursuits would presumably be led by the Animal Services Department, working in <br />concert with its citizen advisory board and perhaps other stakeholders. <br />Enforcement <br />• Upon initial contact for noncompliance with the new ordinance; afkw the six-month phase -in <br />period, a dog owner will receive a warning that gives him or her thirty (30) days to come <br />into compliance. As with the initial implementation period itself, this initial enforcement <br />approach is designed to ensure that dog owners are aware of and able to comply with the <br />tethering ordinance. <br />• An animal may be impounded after the issuance of a citation for a violation of the jadm ing <br />ordinance,-4 r h itself would occur only after the issuance of a waning —subipct to <br />wMadwk process of MARW by the animal owner. Given the right to and requirements of <br />"due process," there would not only be an appeal process but a specific legal mechanism for <br />determining possession and ownership of an animal in the event that an appeal failed. <br />10- <br />04 <br />W-� ,. . D� ti . 0: <br />- <br />• An animal may be impounded after the issuance of a citation for a violation of the jadm ing <br />ordinance,-4 r h itself would occur only after the issuance of a waning —subipct to <br />wMadwk process of MARW by the animal owner. Given the right to and requirements of <br />"due process," there would not only be an appeal process but a specific legal mechanism for <br />determining possession and ownership of an animal in the event that an appeal failed. <br />10- <br />