Ohio Revised Code Chapter 955 - Dogs

• Section 955.01 - Registration Of Dogs.
  (A) (1) Except as otherwise provided in this section or in sections 955.011, 955.012, and 955.16 of the Revised Code, every person who owns,...
• Section 955.011 - Registration For Guide, Leader, Hearing Or Support Dogs To Be Free And Permanent.
  (A) When an application is made for registration of an assistance dog and the owner can show proof by certificate or other means that...
• Section 955.012 - Law Enforcement Canine Registration.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Controlled substance" has the same meaning as in section 3719.01 of the Revised Code. (2) "Law enforcement...
• Section 955.013 - Registration Of Dogs And Kennels via Internet.
  (A) As used in this section, "financial transaction device" has the same meaning as in section 301.28 of the Revised Code. (B) A county...
• Section 955.02 - Definition Of "Dog Kennel" Or "Kennel".
  As used in this chapter, "dog kennel" or "kennel " means an establishment that keeps, houses, and maintains adult dogs, as defined in section...
• Section 955.03 - Dogs Are Personalty.
  Any dog which has been registered under sections 955.01 and 955.04 of the Revised Code and any dog not required to be registered under...
• Section 955.04 - Kennel Registration.
  Every owner of a kennel of dogs shall, in like manner as provided in section 955.01 of the Revised Code, make application for the...
• Section 955.05 - Registration Of Dog Or Dog Kennel During Year.
  After the thirty-first day of January of any year, except as otherwise provided in section 955.012 or 955.16 of the Revised Code, every person,...
• Section 955.06 - Registration Fee For Partial Year And Multiple Years.
  (A) The owner, keeper, or harborer of a dog becoming three months of age after the first day of July in a calendar year...
• Section 955.07 - Certificate Of Registration - Record Kept By County Auditor.
  Upon the filing of the application for registration required by sections 955.01 and 955.04 of the Revised Code and upon the payment of the...
• Section 955.08 - Tags.
  In addition to the certificate of registration provided for by section 955.07 of the Revised Code, the county auditor shall issue to every person...
• Section 955.09 - Period Of Validity.
  Certificates of registration and registration tags shall be valid only during the calendar year or years for which they are issued. Amended by 130th...
• Section 955.10 - Tags To Be Worn.
  No owner of a dog, except a dog constantly confined to a dog kennel registered under this chapter or one licensed under Chapter 956....
• Section 955.11 - Transfer Of Ownership Certificate.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) (a) "Dangerous dog" means a dog that, without provocation, and subject to division (A)(1)(b) of this section,...
• Section 955.12 - Dog Wardens.
  Except as provided in section 955.121 of Revised Code, a board of county commissioners shall appoint or employ a county dog warden and deputies...
• Section 955.121 - Appointment Of Sheriff As County Dog Warden.
  (A) (1) In lieu of appointing a county dog warden and deputies under section 955.12 of the Revised Code, a board of county commissioners...
• Section 955.13 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 01-01-1974
• Section 955.14 - Increasing Dog And Kennel Registration Fees.
  (A) Notwithstanding section 955.01 of the Revised Code, a board of county commissioners by resolution may increase dog and kennel registration fees in the...
• Section 955.15 - Impounding Dogs.
  The board of county commissioners shall provide nets and other suitable devices for the taking of dogs in a humane manner, provide a suitable...
• Section 955.16 - Disposing Of Impounded Dogs.
  (A) Dogs that have been seized by the county dog warden and impounded shall be kept, housed, and fed for three days for the...
• Section 955.17 - Costs - Fees.
  (A) Except as otherwise provided in divisions (B), (C), and (D) of this section, costs shall be assessed against the owner, keeper, or harborer...
• Section 955.18 - Redemption Of Dog.
  Any dog that is seized and impounded under sections 955.12, 955.15, and 955.17 of the Revised Code may be redeemed by its owner, keeper,...
• Section 955.19 - Funds.
  All funds received by the county dog warden or poundkeeper in connection with the administration of sections 955.01 to 955.18, inclusive, of the Revised...
• Section 955.20 - Dog And Kennel Fund.
  The registration fees provided for in sections 955.01 to 955.14 of the Revised Code constitute a special fund known as "the dog and kennel...
• Section 955.201 - Ohio Pet Fund - Sterilization Services.
  (A) As used in this section and in section 955.202 of the Revised Code, "Ohio pet fund" means a nonprofit corporation organized by that...
• Section 955.202 - [Repealed].
  Repealed by 128th General Assemblych.9, HB 2, §105.01, eff. 7/1/2009.
• Section 955.21 - Prohibition Against Failure To Register Dog Kennel.
  No owner, keeper, or harborer of a dog more than three months of age, nor owner of a dog kennel, shall fail to file...
• Section 955.22 - Confining, Restraining, Debarking Dogs; Dangerous Dog Registration Certificate.
  (A) As used in this section, "dangerous dog" has the same meaning as in section 955.11 of the Revised Code. (B) No owner, keeper,...
• Section 955.221 - Local Ordinances Or Resolutions Pertaining To Dog Control.
  (A) For the purposes of this section, ordinances or resolutions to control dogs include, but are not limited to, ordinances or resolutions concerned with...
• Section 955.222 - Hearings For Dog Designation.
  (A) The municipal court or county court that has territorial jurisdiction over the residence of the owner, keeper, or harborer of a dog shall...
• Section 955.23 - Prohibition Against Failure Of Duty By Dog Warden.
  No county dog warden shall willfully fail to perform his duties under section 955.12 of the Revised Code or other duties required of dog...
• Section 955.24 - Prohibition Against Hindering The Capture Of An Unregistered Dog.
  No person shall obstruct or interfere with anyone lawfully engaged in capturing an unregistered dog or making an examination of a dog wearing a...
• Section 955.25 - Unlawful Tag.
  No person shall own, keep, or harbor a dog wearing a fictitious, altered, or invalid registration tag or a registration tag not issued by...
• Section 955.26 - Rabies Quarantine.
  Whenever, in the judgment of the director of health, any city or general health district board of health, or persons performing the duties of...
• Section 955.261 - Duties After Dog Bites Person.
  (A) (1) No person shall remove a dog that has bitten any person from the county in which the bite occurred until a quarantine...
• Section 955.27 - Disposition Of Surplus Fund.
  After paying all necessary expenses of administering the sections of the Revised Code relating to the registration, seizing, impounding, and destroying of dogs, including...
• Section 955.28 - Dog May Be Killed For Certain Acts - Owner Liable For Damages.
  (A) Subject to divisions (A)(2) and (3) of section 955.261 of the Revised Code, a dog that is chasing or approaching in a menacing...
• Section 955.29 - [Repealed].
  Repealed by 131st General Assembly File No. TBD, HB 64, §105.01, eff. 9/29/2015. Effective Date: 03-23-1981; 2008 HB281 08-22-2008
• Section 955.30 - [Repealed].
  Repealed by 131st General Assembly File No. TBD, HB 64, §105.01, eff. 9/29/2015. Effective Date: 03-23-1981
• Section 955.31 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 03-23-1981; 2008 HB281 08-22-2008
• Section 955.32 - [Repealed].
  Repealed by 131st General Assembly File No. TBD, HB 64, §105.01, eff. 9/29/2015. Effective Date: 11-28-1975; 2008 HB281 08-22-2008
• Section 955.33 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 11-01-1985; 2008 HB281 08-22-2008
• Section 955.34 - Amended And Renumbered Rc 955.351.
  Effective Date: 11-28-1975; 2008 HB281 08-22-2008
• Section 955.35 - [Repealed].
  Repealed by 131st General Assembly File No. TBD, HB 64, §105.01, eff. 9/29/2015. Amended by 129th General AssemblyFile No.42, HB 229, §1, eff. 10/17/2011....
• Section 955.351 - [Repealed].
  Repealed by 131st General Assembly File No. TBD, HB 64, §105.01, eff. 9/29/2015. Effective Date: 11-28-1975; 2008 HB281 08-22-2008
• Section 955.36 - [Repealed].
  Repealed by 131st General Assembly File No. TBD, HB 64, §105.01, eff. 9/29/2015. Effective Date: 11-01-1985
• Section 955.37 - [Repealed].
  Repealed by 131st General Assembly File No. TBD, HB 64, §105.01, eff. 9/29/2015. Effective Date: 03-23-1981; 2008 HB281 08-22-2008
• Section 955.38 - [Repealed].
  Repealed by 131st General Assembly File No. TBD, HB 64, §105.01, eff. 9/29/2015. Effective Date: 11-01-1985; 2008 HB281 08-22-2008
• Section 955.39 - Prohibition Against Violating A Rabies Quarantine.
  No person shall violate a rabies quarantine order issued under section 955.26 of the Revised Code. Effective Date: 10-01-1953
• Section 955.40 - Forfeiture.
  Any corporation which violates section 955.39 of the Revised Code shall forfeit and pay to the municipal corporation a sum not to exceed three...
• Section 955.41 - Examination Of Claim.
  The board of county commissioners, not later than the third regular meeting after it is presented with the account provided for by section 955.42...
• Section 955.42 - Reimbursement For Rabies Bite.
  A person bitten or injured by an animal afflicted with rabies, if the bite or injury has caused the person to employ medical or...
• Section 955.43 - Dogs With Blind, Deaf Or Mobility Impaired Person.
  (A) When either a blind, deaf or hearing impaired, or mobility impaired person or a trainer of an assistance dog is accompanied by an...
• Section 955.44 - Fines Credited To Dog And Kennel Fund.
  All fines collected for violations of sections 955.11, 955.21, 955.22, 955.23, 955.25, and 955.261 of the Revised Code shall be deposited in the county...
• Section 955.50 - Sale And Transportation Of Dogs.
  (A) No person shall sell, offer to sell, or expose for sale, for the purpose of resale or receive for delivery within this state,...
• Section 955.51 - Claims For Value Of Animals Injured Or Killed By Coyote.
  (A) As used in sections 955.51 to 955.53 of the Revised Code: (1) "Animal" means a horse, mule, sheep, head of cattle, swine, goat,...
• Section 955.52 - Hearing On Claims For Value Of Animals Injured Or Killed By Coyote.
  (A) (1) The department of agriculture shall hear claims that are approved by the dog warden and supported by the wildlife officer pursuant to...
• Section 955.53 - Claim Forms For Value Of Animals Injured Or Killed By Coyote.
  All claims against the money appropriated from the general revenue fund for the purposes of sections 955.51 to 955.53 of the Revised Code and...
• Section 955.54 - Possession Of Certain Dogs By Convicted Felons Prohibited.
  (A) No person who is convicted of or pleads guilty to a felony offense of violence committed on or after the effective date of...
• Section 955.99 - Penalty.
  (A) (1) Whoever violates division (E) of section 955.11 of the Revised Code because of a failure to comply with division (B) of that...

Last modified: October 10, 2016