Lakewood Eyes Dropping 'Dangerous Dog' Registration Fee
City council eyes measure that would ditch the registration fee for “dangerous dogs.”
Per its 2008 ordinance, the city of Lakewood requires that owners of dogs deemed “dangerous” pay a $50 registration fee each year. That may change with an ordinance introduced this week by Lakewood City Council that would “eliminate the fees associated with the annual renewal of registrations of dangerous animals.” Ward 2 councilman Tom Bullock, who proposed the measure, said that the fee was included in the 2008 ordinance to cover the city’s initial cost of registration — including verifying that dogs were insured and had microchips implanted in them. “However, registration for subsequent years is less work-intensive,” Bullock said, adding that most of the work now consists of filling out a renewal form. “Given that our rationale for …
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Crystal Winters
7:33 pm on Thursday, October 18, 2012
Jason, your hatetred for the breed stems from,what happened to have you wasting energy on fact based FASENESS. DO YOU THINK A DOG IS REALLY BORN HAPPY,LOVING,READY TO OBEY COMANDS AT BIRTH?? or do you think a dog is born, then a HUMAN treats the dog inhumanly,beats it,straps a 10-25pound chain thats only 3-6ft in length to their neck and leavs the dog to sit in an area of what,lets esstimate … more ›