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 Kansas City
 Code of Ordinances
 Chapter 14. ANIMALS

  § 14-33. Dogs or Vietnamese potbellied pigs running at large prohibited.  

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  • (a)

    It shall be unlawful for any person owning, keeping or harboring any dog or Vietnamese potbellied pig to permit, suffer or allow the dog or Vietnamese potbellied pig to run at large within the city. For the purpose of this section, any dog or Vietnamese potbellied pig shall be deemed to have been permitted, suffered or allowed by its owner, keeper or harborer to run at large when found outside of the residence structure of the owner, keeper or harborer and not effectively physically restrained on a chain or leash or behind a suitable fence or other proper method of physical restraint from which it cannot escape.

    (b)

    It shall be unlawful for any owner, keeper or harborer of a dog or Vietnamese potbellied pig to allow said dog or Vietnamese potbellied pig to be restrained in any such manner as to allow the animal to be upon the private property of another person without that person's permission. In duplexes, triplexes, fourplexes, townhouses, apartment buildings and all such other residential structures where more than one party occupies a property, no animal may be leashed, chained, fenced or otherwise restrained in a common-ground area shared by more than one tenant.

    (c)

    A legally blind, deaf or physically disabled person using a guide, hearing or service dog in the customary manner shall be deemed to be in compliance with this section.

    (d)

    Official use of dogs by any governmental unit shall be deemed in compliance with this section.

    (e)

    Any person permitting or allowing a dog to run at large within an "off-leash dog area" established on parks under the control and management of the board of parks and recreation commissioners, in accordance with all rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the board of parks and recreation commissioners for such area, shall be deemed to be in compliance with this section.

(Code of Gen. Ords. 1967, § 6.31; Ord. No. 48707, 6-22-78; Ord. No. 951372, § 1, 11-9-95; Ord. No. 040647, § 1, 6-24-04; Ord. No. 150493 , § 1, 7-2-15)