DONT LET YOUR PET GO TO DOGGY JAIL!

By: Staci Blackett
Mapleton City Animal Codes

Do you know the law?
Mapleton City requires that your dog or cat is licensed each year. If your animal is not licensed then you could be violating the law and be charged a fee for your animal(s). Please make sure you take a current rabies certificate to the Mapleton City Building and register your pet today.

Mapleton City Animal Codes:
Dog owners shall at all times keep their dog on a leash or within an enclosed area on their own property or the private property of another with the permission of the owner so as to prevent them from being at large or stray, from biting or harassing any person engaged in a lawful act, from interfering with the use of public property or with the use of another person's private property and from being in violation of this chapter. The owner or person charged with responsibility for a dog found running at large shall be strictly liable for any violation(s) committed by the dog, regardless of whether or not the person knows the dog is running at large. However, dogs may be at large while participating in field trials and obedience classes organized and sanctioned by recognized dog clubs, while assisting their owner or trainer in legal hunting or in herding livestock, while assisting a peace officer engaged in law enforcement duties, or while being trained for the above purposes on private land with permission of the landowner, as such dogs are under direct and effective sound-gesture control within sight of such individuals to assure that they do not violate any other provisions of law.
No person shall allow a dog in his custody to defecate or urinate on public property or any improved private property other than that of the owner or person having control of the dog to curb such a dog in order to carry out the intent of this section. An unsighted person while relying on a guide dog shall be exempt from this section. If a violation of the above occurs, such a person shall immediately remove any feces to a proper receptacle
All dogs over four (4) months of age owned, possessed or harbored by any person in the city shall be registered with the city and a tag shall be issued upon payment of a fee approved by the city.
Every owner shall be required to provide each dog with a collar or harness to which a current year's license tag is attached.
No license or vaccination tag shall be transferable from one dog to another.
The police department and persons employed for animal regulation purposes shall attempt to capture any animal found at large in violation of this chapter and may destroy an animal at large if in their judgment, such action is required for public health and safety.
The police department and persons employed for animal regulation purposes shall attempt to capture any animal found at large in violation of this chapter and may destroy an animal at large if in their judgment, such action is required for public health and safety.
Upon receipt of a lost or stray animal bearing a current year's license tag, the department and/or agents shall immediately telephone or mail to the owner of record at the address indicated on the license form, a notice of the location of the animal. Compliance with notice requirements of this section shall be deemed met if the department shall have mailed the notice to the owner of record at his address of record, postage prepaid.
The owner of an impounded animal may claim it prior to its legal disposition by providing proper identification meeting all the legal requirements and posting the applicable redemption fees for impoundment, board, medical care and/or other costs.
Dogs: The department shall hold an impounded, lost, or stray dog for not less than three (3) working days if it was not wearing a current year's license tag when impounded and for not less than five (5) working days after notice is given pursuant to this chapter if it was wearing a current year's license tag, so that the owner or custodian may claim it prior to other dispositions.
Cats: The department shall hold an impounded, lost, or stray cat for not less than twenty four (24) hours, if it was not wearing a collar or any means of identification, and appeared to be abandoned; and for not less than three (3) working days, if the cat is wearing a collar or tag that would indicate the animal is not abandoned, so that the owner or custodian may claim it prior to other dispositions.
The department may dispose of, humanely, or may transfer to a new owner upon payment of the applicable fee, any impounded animal not claimed by its owner or custodian within the prescribed holding time. Animals relinquished by their owners may be humanely destroyed without regard to the prescribed holding time in order to alleviate suffering or to protect other impounded animals from exposure to a contagious disease.
All persons bitten and the parents or guardians of minor children bitten by a dog, cat, skunk, fox, bat, coyote, bobcat, or other animal known to constitute a serious threat of rabies shall notify the police department or county health department immediately thereafter. Physicians treating such bites shall also be required to make a notification as stated. (1986 Code) These are just some of the rules and regulations for Mapleton City, for all the codes please go to: http://66.113.195.234/UT/Mapleton%20City/index.htm