Section
12-2-1 Definitions
12-2-2 Authority; creation of Division of Animal Protective Services; composition; scope of chapter
12-2-3 Duties of Division
12-2-4 Enforcement powers; APS officer badges; storage and use of tranquilizer guns
12-2-5 Right of APS officers to enter for inspection
12-2-6 Duty of APS officers and police officers to seize and impound certain animals
12-2-7 Impoundment and disposition of animals to prevent abuse; involuntary absence of owner
12-2-8 Records of impounded animals
12-2-9 Keeping stray animals
12-2-10 Impoundment, reclamation, and disposition of animals; generally
12-2-11 Reclamation fees
12-2-12 Certain animals prohibited
12-2-13 Inherently dangerous animals
12-2-14 Determinations
12-2-15 Dangerous animals and vicious animals
12-2-16 Appeals of determinations
12-2-17 Exotic animals
12-2-18 Tethering
12-2-19 Cruelty to animals
12-2-20 Adequate food, shade, shelter, and water
12-2-21 Reserved
12-2-22 Duty of drivers to give notice of injury to domesticated animal
12-2-23 Staking out, herding, or grazing animals on unenclosed premises
12-2-24 Setting animals free for chase
12-2-25 Keeping or displaying animals generally; conduct of wholesale poultry yards
12-2-26 Sale of fowl, or rabbits under certain conditions; coloring fowl or rabbits
12-2-27 Keeping swine
12-2-28 Keeping fowl
12-2-29 Maintenance of stables and pens
12-2-30 Urban beekeeping
12-2-31 Dead domesticated animals
12-2-32 Inoculation of animals generally
12-2-33 Feral cat trap-neuter-return program; TNR program
12-2-34 Animal traps available to the public
12-2-35 Animal bite notification; bites unlawful
12-2-36 Summary destruction of animals that cannot be seized by reasonable means
12-2-37 Public nuisances
12-2-38 Restraint of animals
12-2-39 Defecation
12-2-40 Reserved
12-2-41 Interference
12-2-42 Prohibition against giveaways in public places
12-2-43 Bird sanctuary
Cross-reference:
Animals turned out into cemeteries, see § 6-4-4
Regulation of parades, see Title 11, Chapter 2
Editor’s note:
Section 1 of Ord. No. 22-044, adopted May 23, 2022, deleted former Ch. 2 in its entirety and enacted a new Ch. 2 in lieu thereof.
Statutory reference:
Regulation of domestic animals, see G.S. 160A-186