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CHAPTER 138

 
H.P. 907 - L.D. 1309

 
An Act To Exempt Agricultural Guard Dogs and Herding Dogs

 
from the Barking Dog Ordinances

 
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:

 
Sec. 1. 7 MRSA §3950, as amended by PL 1991, c. 779, §40, is
further amended to read:

 
§3950. Local regulations

 
Each municipality is empowered to adopt or retain more
stringent ordinances, laws or regulations dealing with the
subject matter of this chapter, except that municipalities may
not adopt breed-specific ordinances, laws or regulations. Any
less restrictive municipal ordinances, laws or regulations are
invalid and of no force and effect.

 
1.__Certain agricultural working dogs exempt from barking dog
ordinances.__A municipal ordinance, law or regulation that
prohibits or limits barking dogs does not apply to dogs engaged
in herding livestock or to agricultural guard dogs engaged in
protecting livestock__or warning the owners of danger to the
livestock.__For the purposes of this subsection, the term
"livestock" has the same meaning as in section 3907, subsection
18-A.


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