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Dog Ordinance
Adopted at a Special Town Meeting on June 9, 1976
1. It shall be unlawful for any person owning, keeping or harboring a dog, whether licensed or unlicensed, either to bring such dog onto or to permit such dog to remain on any beach in the Town of Kennebunkport between the hours of 8:00 AM and 6:00 PM, from June 15 through September 15. This section shall not apply to seeing-eye dogs.
2. It shall be unlawful for any person owning, keeping or harboring a dog, licensed or unlicensed, to allow it to run unleashed in the Village Residential, Village Riverfront, Village Dock Square, Cape Arundel, Goose Rocks, Cape Porpoise West, Cape Porpoise East and Cape Porpoise Square zones, as defined in the Kennebunkport Zoning Ordinance as amended.
3. “Person” shall mean any individual, firm, association, or corporation owning, keeping or harboring a dog.
4. Whoever violates this ordinance shall be punished by a fine of $25.00 for the first offense, and $25.00 for each subsequent offense to be recovered by complaint before the District Court.
Barking Dog Ordinance
Adopted at the Annual Town Meeting on March 10, 1984
Amended June 18, 2005
The owner of a dog or dogs, or the person having control over a dog or dogs, which disturb the peace of any person by frequently and habitually barking, howling, or creating other noise shall be punished, on the first offense, by a fine of not more than $50.00. The second offense within a six month period shall be punished by a fine of not more than $100.00. The third offense within a one year period shall be punished by a fine of not more than $500.00 and the Town may ask the Court to order that such dog or dogs be forthwith removed from Town. All costs incurred by the Town as a result of prosecution, including attorneys’ fees, shall be recoverable from the owner or person having control of said dogs.
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