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Columbus City Council is revisiting Leash and Dog Waste Legislation this summer. Councilmember Priscilla Tyson is spearheading the efforts originally worked on by former Councilmember Kevin Boyce over the past 5 years.
The first reading of these new laws is scheduled to take place on May 18th and will be up for a vote on June 1st. If you’d like to contact Councilmember Tyson about this proposed legislation, she can be reached via email here or via phone at 645-2933.
Who’s going to be the dog poop police? “Citizen’s arrest! Citizen’s arrest!” ?
Oh no, Core’s head is going to explode.
the first one is not necessary, just use the existing laws on the books.
law 2 is ok, not great. part B needs to be removed.
“(B) It shall be unlawful for any person to walk a dog on public property of this City or upon the private property of another without carrying at all times a suitable container or other suitable instrument for the removal and disposal of dog feces.”
why make people carry stuff if their dog doesn’t go?
I understand that I need to clean up if my dog goes, but why have a law telling me I have carry bags or containers?
some politicians just want their names on the books, these laws SUCK!
but anyways, I always walk my dogs on leash and bring bags and clean up after my dogs. so the law isn’t going to make me do anything I’m not already doing, I just think putting these laws on the books is a waste of taxpayer money. I would love to see police writing tickets for off leash dogs while stuff is getting stolen out of my back yard and my neighbor across the street keeps peddling his drugs. Love the priorities Columbus!
Why am I not surprised that Boyce’s lackey, Mark Young, didn’t hold to his word about the creation of 3 off leash parks prior to this legislation even being discussed?
Regardless, troops are being mobilized. Hope the sponsors of this are ready for a war.
p.s. Just for the record, I don’t care if they pass a law fining people 25,000.00 for not picking up after their dogs OR people who don’t keep their dogs under control to the point of annoyance or danger to others.
This isn’t that.
Good luck with your next election, Priscilla Tyson!
I’d like the councilwoman to document all cases in the past four years in which off-leash dogs have been public safety/health hazards, mark them on a map. If this is passed, enforcement should be in the high-incident neighborhoods only.
I’ll bet this coincides with the two wolf hybids killing the little dog on the West side. She’s trying to time it right for sympathy. but as you’ll notice, the guy was already in violation of laws on the books.
http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2009/04/24/WELLEN.ART_ART_04-24-09_B3_PRDLDB8.html
Joev, does that include having a group of 7-8 yr old kids threatened by dog owners for practicing soccer in a park? If so, I can document that. The people at Clinton-Como told us that we were there illegally and that it was the “dog park” if you can believe that. This was four years ago!
Core, the problem is defining “under control to the point of annoyance or danger to others.”
As a dog owner, park user and parent, it is about damn time this got done.
Actually, it isn’t a problem at all bob. As far as what a few dog owners said to you 4 years ago, it really has nothing to do with this. I’m not surprised there are asses who own dogs any more than I wasn’t suprised asses own roller blades, bikes, picnic equipment, or any other group who uses the parks.
bob.os – I don’t think that would be an instance of off-leash dogs being a public safety/health hazard. That is a personality issue with the dog owners, and should have been dealt with as such.
‘threatened by dog owners’ is completely different than ‘threatening dogs’
I propose an ordinance that polices humans defecating on the sidewalks as well.
Come on, the city of Columbus is broke. This is a way to drum up tickets. With Part B they can ticket you for not carrying a bag & a scooper.
Does anyone not think a large portion of this is revenue generation?
so if you were walking your dog, the police would be allowed to detain and search you for bags?
because technically a suitable instrument for removing feces “could”(not recommended) be your bare hands.
$25 fines don’t sound like a revenue generator to me. Especially since this adds more enforcement duties. It seems like a way for certain politicians to stick it to dog owners.
I do know of at least 3 incidents that happened within the last 2 months where an unleashed dog attacked either a person or another dog so maybe there is an increase in crappy dog owners who don’t train their dogs. Sad that it would have to come to this, but I understand why I guess. Some people don’t realize the responsiblity that is needed to care for a dog it seems – they just think they are “cute” and have to have one :(
this is a political favor being returned to Boyce from Tyson if I had to guess. What Tyson may be overlooking is what a poison pill it is. For every person who thinks a leash law is a good idea, they aren’t passionate enough about it to hit a polling station and check her name for it.
I can guarantee that the people like me will absolutely be there checking her opponent’s name though.
that’s probably why Boyce avoided it/postponed it until he was out.
And SJT, there is already a law that governs unleashed dogs attacking people or animals.
I think a new law on the books for offleash dogs is going to change as much behavior as jaywalking laws have changed for High Street just south of City Center.