(Dillsboro, IN) – The Dillsboro Police Department says it’s received a number of complaints recently about barking dogs.
Officers say the complaints have come from Rullman Drive, plus Holland, North and Washington streets.
The department took to social media to share two pet-related ordinances:
91.15 Prohibited Conduct; Owner Responsible —
“It shall be unlawful for any owner to fail to exercise proper car and control of his or her dog or dogs so as to prevent the following actions by it or them:
(A) Molesting of passers-by;
(B) Chasing of passing vehicles;
(C) Attacking other domestic animals;
(D) Trespassing upon private property or school property;
(E) Damaging private or public property;
(F) Habitual barking or loud and continued noise; or
(G) Unnecessary foul or noxious odors which offend people in the neighborhood.”
92.04 (B)(5) —
“It shall be unlawful for any owner, or person or entity in control of domesticated animals, including but not limited to, dogs, cats, fowl, domesticated birds, or livestock, to permit any such animal to disturb the quiet, comfort or repose of any person in any residence, business, office or other private or public building, or of any person in the vicinity, through constant and persistent barking, howling, crying out, or calling of animal.”
