Resolution 010735

..Title Authorizing a joint hearing before the Committee on Public Safety and the Committee on Licenses & Inspections regarding the City's enforcement procedures and practices with respect to the registration of dogs and the City's leash law and the coordination of efforts from the Health Department and the Department of Licenses & Inspections and the City's SWEEP program in connection with enforcement procedures and practices. ..Body WHEREAS, In 1986, the City enacted §10-103 Licensing and Rabies Vaccination and §10-104 Animals Running at Large and Vicious Animals to address animal control of domestic animals in general and of dogs in particular; and WHEREAS, Within recent years the City has been plagued with pit bulls, American Pit bull terriers, Staffordshire Bull Terriers, and Rottweilers which have been trained to attack and kill for sport and have been known to attack innocent residents; and WHEREAS, Attempts to enact City ordinances to either ban, restrict, limit, and control the ownership and the maintenance of these dogs have run up against limitations set forth in the Commonwealth's Dangerous Dog Law, which limits municipal legislation in this area; and WHEREAS, The City's Health Department is charged with the responsibility of handling registration of dogs and may be in the best position to handle enforcement of the City's leash law; now therefore RESOLVED, THAT THE CITY COUNCIL OF PHILADELPHIA, Authorize a joint hearing before the Committee on Public Safety and the Committee on Licenses & Inspections regarding the City's enforcement procedures and practices with respect to the registration of dogs and the City's leash law and the coordination of efforts from the Health Department and the Department of Licenses & Inspections and the City's SWEEP program in connection with enforcement procedures and practices. ..End