[Adopted 7-7-1992]
The purpose of this article shall be to promote the health, safety, cleanliness and general welfare of the Town of Bedford, including the protection, cleanliness and preservation of the property of the Town of Bedford and its inhabitants by adopting and enforcing certain regulations and restrictions on the activities of dogs.
This article shall be known and can be cited as the "Town of Bedford Canine Waste Law."
As used in this article, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
DOG
A carnivorous domesticated mammal, known as "Canis familiaris," and shall include male as well as female.
Except as provided and regulated by § 48-21 hereof, no person owning, harboring, keeping, walking or having the custody or control of a dog shall cause, permit, suffer or allow such dog to soil, defile, defecate on or commit any nuisance on any common thoroughfare, sidewalk, passageway, bypath, play area, park or any other public property. These restrictions shall likewise apply to any private property unless such person shall have the express written permission of the owner of said property.
[Amended 4-6-2004 by L.L. No. 7-2004]
The prohibition set forth in § 48-20 above shall not apply to the Bedford Canine Tribute Park or to those portions of a street lying between curblines, which areas may be utilized to curb a dog, subject however to the following conditions:
A. 
Any person who so curbs a dog shall immediately remove all feces deposited by such dog in the following manner: feces shall be picked up with scoop, shovel, broom, tong or other similar implement and be deposited immediately thereafter in a container, plastic or otherwise, and then subsequently deposited in a container used for the disposal of refuse.
B. 
In no event shall any feces be deposited in sewers or drains, whether storm or sanitary.
Any person violating this article shall be guilty of a violation and shall be subject to a fine not to exceed the sum of $100.
The Dog Control Officer and the Police Department of the Town of Bedford shall be the enforcement officers of the provisions of this article.
Should any paragraph or section, or portion thereof, of this article be declared by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid or unlawful, the same shall not affect the remainder of this article as a whole or any part thereof other than the part so declared to be invalid.