Bill Text: MI HB4168 | 2013-2014 | 97th Legislature | Chaptered

Michigan House Bill 4168 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Animals; dogs; requirement that county sheriff euthanize unlicensed dogs; eliminate. Amends sec. 17 of 1919 PA 339 (MCL 287.277).

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 18-5)

Status: (Passed) 2014-03-12 - Assigned Pa 32'14 With Immediate Effect [HB4168 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2013-HB4168-Chaptered.html

Act No. 32

Public Acts of 2014

Approved by the Governor

March 11, 2014

Filed with the Secretary of State

March 11, 2014

EFFECTIVE DATE: March 11, 2014

STATE OF MICHIGAN

97TH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2014

Introduced by Reps. O’Brien, Lund, Cotter, Lyons, Haines, Lori, Jenkins, Shirkey, Kurtz, Lauwers, Schmidt, Graves, Rogers, Outman, Foster, Walsh, Price, Lipton, Haugh, Santana, Lane, Pscholka and Singh

ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 4168

AN ACT to amend 1919 PA 339, entitled “An act relating to dogs and the protection of live stock and poultry from damage by dogs; providing for the licensing of dogs; regulating the keeping of dogs, and authorizing their destruction in certain cases; providing for the determination and payment of damages done by dogs to live stock and poultry; imposing powers and duties on certain state, county, city and township officers and employes, and to repeal Act No. 347 of the Public Acts of 1917, and providing penalties for the violation of this act,” by amending section 17 (MCL 287.277), as amended by 1998 PA 390.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Sec. 17. The county treasurer may, based on records of the dogs actually licensed in each city or township of the county and any report under section 16, identify and locate all unlicensed dogs. A dog required to be licensed under this act that is unlicensed is a public nuisance. The county treasurer shall immediately list all unlicensed dogs identified under this section and shall deliver copies of the list to the prosecuting attorney of the county. Upon receipt of the name of an owner of an unlicensed dog from the county treasurer, the prosecuting attorney shall commence proceedings against the owner of the dog as required by this act.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.

Clerk of the House of Representatives

Secretary of the Senate

Approved

Governor