This bill would propose a local constitutional amendment to the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, applicable to those areas of Madison County outside the corporate limits of any municipality, to authorize the Madison County Commission, by resolution, to establish a procedure by which a dog can be declared dangerous, to impose civil penalties on the owner of a dog that inflicts severe personal harm on another person, and to require that a dangerous dog be kept in a fenced enclosure as defined by the commission with input from the local humane society.
Delivered to Secretary of State at 5:31 p.m. on April 6, 2010.
Assigned Act No. 2010-382 on 04/06/2010.
Clerk of the House Certification
Signature Requested
Enrolled
Passed Second House
Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 692
Third Reading Passed
Read for the second time and placed on the calendar
Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Local Legislation No. 1
Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 10
Third Reading Passed
Read for the second time and placed on the calendar
Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Madison County Legislation
Source: Alabama Legislature