Portal de Cartagena
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The City of Cartagena crusade against dog poop littering streets and parks and are a nuisance to pedestrians, they begin to bear fruit through the work of a plainclothes unit of the local police.
Since last December, this special unit dedicated to the township monitor areas frequented by dogs and their owners, to check compliance with the bylaws of pets, mainly with regard to the collection of excreta and measures security to be taken.
So during the first quarter of 2013, plainclothes agents have enabled the processing by the Department of Health of 102 sanctions against the owners of the dogs, of which 61.7 per cent, or 63 fines were motivated not to collect road depositions pets.
For the rest of sanctions imposed for wearing loose 22 pets, 20 of which were considered dangerous breeds.
Another nine were imposed for possession of dangerous dogs without license and four precepctiva abandonment or other causes.
As a fact to keep in mind, in 2012 the number of sanctions from control dogs was 44, a figure that has been largely superseded in just the first three months of this year 2013, thanks to this undercover police unit.
Since it went into operation in December last year, and 146 fines are already processed, noting that penalties for dog feces on the street from 30 to 300 euros.
The work of this unit vigilacia is general in all parks and city streets and neighborhoods, while focusing its activities in areas where there are more citizen complaints, as Benipila area and along the Greenway Neighborhood Peral.
WHAT DOES THE ORDINANCE
Among other issues the ordinance pet provides:
On public roads pets must be properly identified and held by belt or chain and collar.
The animals of the canine species listed as potentially dangerous, should be obligatory muzzle racial typology appropriate for each animal.
Likewise be driven and controlled chain or belt unstretchable less than 2 meters but may be more than one of these dogs per person.
Those who are on a farm, cottage, villa plot, terrace, patio or any other identified place, shall be bound, unless you have the cockpit area, height and suitable enclosure to protect people or animals who come to these places.
The presence of potentially dangerous animals in public places or spaces require the person who has the drive and check the corresponding administrative leave and the animal is registered with the City Clerk of potentially dangerous animals.
It is strictly forbidden animal access to the sandy beaches, public bathing areas and in those arenas that are in squares and thoroughfares.
People who lead dogs and other animals, prevent them, deposit their droppings on sidewalks, promenades, gardens, and generally anywhere dedicated to pedestrian traffic.
To vacate these droppings, if there were no designated place for it, should be brought to the road, the curb and as close to scupper the sewer, or in areas not intended for pedestrian or responsible juego.El sites the animal is required to collect and remove the droppings, even having to clean the road that had been affected, hygienically acceptable by bag, paper, dustpan, etc..
and deposit them in the nearest container.
Dogs may be loose in the areas bounded by the city for that purpose, except that present a danger to the rest of the users of the facility.
In public parks there is no enclosed area shall circulate bound.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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