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An Ordinance relocating a prohibition on the accumulation of animal excrement where an animal is kept from Section 4-12.2 of the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Code of Ordinances to Section 4-2 of the Code, concerning the care and treatment of animals, and extending animal housing sanitation standards to animals other than dogs; amending Section 4-9 of the Code to clarify that the owner of an animal seized for being kept in unsanitary or unsafe conditions is liable for the cost of impoundment; amending Section 4-12.2 of the Code of Ordinances to prohibit an owner from allowing his or her animal to give any human the reasonable impression of immediate physical danger; amending Section 4-14 of the Code of Ordinances to authorize Lexington-Fayette Urban County animal control officers to take temporary custody of any dog that has bitten a person or domestic animal without provocation or any vicious dog kept in violation of local and state kenneling requirements, and to hold such dog pending judicial resolution of the matter; requiring the owner of any dog so held to pay a boarding fee of $8 per day; permitting the animal control officer to dispose of the dog should its owner fail to reclaim it in a timely manner; requiring the animal control officer to maintain a photographic registry of all dogs in Lexington-Fayette County declared vicious by the court and requiring the owner of any dog declared vicious to provide the registry with information concerning the animal; requiring all vicious dogs in Lexington-Fayette County to be spayed or neutered and tagged with microchip identification; and amending Section 4-19 of the Code of Ordinances to define any unattended dog on private or public property without the permission of the property owner as running at large. [Council Office, Maynard]
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Vicious Dogs
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BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE LEXINGTON-FAYETTE URBAN COUNTY GOVERNMENT:
Section 1 - That Section 4-2 of the Code of Ordinance of the Lexi...
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