City of Pawtucket, RI
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2023-12-20
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Part II: General Legislation
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Chapter 116 Animals
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Article V Canine Waste Removal
- The Charter
- Ch C Charter
- Part I: Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 3 Administration of Government
- Ch 7 Bills and Claims
- Ch 11 Boards and Commissions
- Ch 22 Committees
- Ch 26 Courts
- Ch 30 Defense and Indemnification
- Ch 35 Expenditures
- Ch 40 Funds
- Ch 50 Officers and Employees
- Ch 59 Pensions
- Ch 63 Personnel Policies
- Ch 76 Real Property Transactions
- Ch 80 Records
- Ch 84 Referenda Questions
- Ch 88 Salaries and Compensation
- Ch 90 Collective Bargaining Agreements
- Ch 92 Training Schools
- Part II: General Legislation
- Ch 100 Air Pollution
- Ch 104 Alarm Systems
- Ch 108 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 112 Amusements
- Ch 116 Animals
- Ch 116 Art V Canine Waste Removal
- § 116-38 Removal and disposal of feces.
- § 116-38.1 Enforcement.
- § 116-39 Violations and penalties.
- § 116-40 Exemption.
- Ch 124 Bicycles
- Ch 128 Bingo
- Ch 130 Body Works Services
- Ch 132 Brush, Grass and Weeds
- Ch 136 Building Construction
- Ch 147 Buildings, Moving of
- Ch 151 Buildings, Numbering of
- Ch 156 Business Deliveries
- Ch 158 Business Registration
- Ch 162 Cemeteries
- Ch 167 Circuses and Carnivals
- Ch 173 Curfew
- Ch 176 Deeds, Recording of
- Ch 182 Drugs
- Ch 186 Electrical Standards
- Ch 193 Entertainment
- Ch 198 Excavations
- Ch 200 Exterior Lighting
- Ch 202 Fees
- Ch 206 Firearms
- Ch 208 Fire Lanes
- Ch 210 Fire Prevention
- Ch 218 Food Establishments
- Ch 222 Fortune Telling
- Ch 231 Hazardous Materials
- Ch 235 Heating Equipment
- Ch 243 HIV Testing
- Ch 247 Housing Standards
- Ch 251 Secondhand Shops, Junkyards, Junk Dealers and Metal Recyclers
- Ch 260 Licensing
- Ch 263 Littering
- Ch 266 Loitering
- Ch 274 Mechanical Standards
- Ch 282 Newspapers and Magazines
- Ch 286 Noise
- Ch 288 Nonresidential Structures
- Ch 290 Nuisances
- Ch 293 P.T.E. Program
- Ch 294 Parks and Playgrounds
- Ch 298 Peace and Good Order
- Ch 302 Peddling and Soliciting
- Ch 306 Plumbing
- Ch 313 Poles and Wires
- Ch 317 Private Detectives
- Ch 319 Property Classification
- Ch 321 Refrigerators, Abandoned
- Ch 325 Rental Property
- Ch 329 Sales, Special
- Ch 335 Sewers
- Ch 341 (Reserved)
- Ch 345 Smoking
- Ch 347 Solid Waste
- Ch 351 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 355 Subsidized Housing
- Ch 360 Tattoo Parlors
- Ch 363 Taxation
- Ch 364 Telecommunications
- Ch 365 Tobacco and Snuff
- Ch 367 Towing
- Ch 371 Trees
- Ch 375 Utility Rights-Of-Way
- Ch 379 Vehicle Repair Shops
- Ch 383 Vehicles, Abandoned and Nonoperational
- Ch 388 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 392 Vehicles, Removal of
- Ch 396 Vending Machine Services
- Ch 401 Water
- Ch 410 Zoning
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
[Approved 8-23-1990 by Ch. No. 2147]
It shall be the duty of each person who owns,
possesses or controls a dog to remove and dispose of any feces left
by his/her dog on any sidewalk, street or other public area. It shall
further be the duty of each person who owns, possesses or controls
a dog to remove and dispose of any feces left by his/her dog on any
private property neither owned nor occupied by said person.
[Added 7-25-1996 by Ch. No. 2422]
A.
Any resident who witnesses a violation of the above
section on his/her property or on a public sidewalk adjacent to his/her
property may file a complaint with the Pawtucket Police Department,
providing all information necessary for a warning or citation to issue
to the violator and promising to be available to testify in court
should the complaint result in a citation being issued.
B.
The violator will receive warnings upon the first
two complaints. Upon the filing of a third or subsequent complaint
against the same violator, a citation shall be issued, service of
which shall be deemed sufficient if mailed to the last known address
of the violator. For the purposes of penalties, it shall be deemed
a first offense when the first citation is issued.
Violation of this article shall be punishable
by a fine not exceeding $25 for the first offense, not exceeding $50
for the second offense within a year and not exceeding $100 for the
third and any subsequent offenses within a year to be recovered by
action of debt or by complaint or warrant, to use as such City Council
may prescribe.
This article shall not apply to a licensed dog
accompanying any handicapped person who, by reason of his/her handicap,
is physically unable to comply with the requirement of this article.
