San Bernardino County license is not required for the following categories of dogs, however, they must have a current rabies vaccination:
(a) Any dog within the unincorporated areas of the County when the owner thereof resides in any municipality within the County, and such dog is wearing or has attached to it a license tag for the current year issued by such municipality.
(b) Any dog owned by or in the charge of any person who is a nonresident of the County and is traveling through the County or temporarily sojourning therein for a period of not exceeding 30 days.
(c) Any dog brought into the County and kept therein for a period not exceeding 30 days for the exclusive purpose of entering the same in any bench show or dog exhibition or field trials or competition.
(d) Any dog brought or sent into the unincorporated territory of the County from any point outside thereof for the exclusive purpose of receiving veterinary care in any dog hospital, in the event that such dog is kept at all times strictly confined within such hospital.
(e) Dogs kept for the sole purpose of being used for research in research institutions approved by the California State Department of Public Health.
(f) Dogs over four months of age which are offered for sale in a duly licensed pet shop or dog kennel. However, all Pit Bulls (American Pit Bull Terrier, American Staffordshire Terrier, Staffordshire Bull Terrier, or any mixed breed of a dog which contains, as an element of its breeding, any of these breeds so as to be identifiable as partially of the breeds listed herein), used for breeding and housed, harbored, or otherwise kept in a licensed dog kennel, must be licensed pursuant to § 32.0209.
(Am. Ord. 1764, passed --1972; Am. Ord. 4114, passed - -2010)