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Law On Dog Hold (Dog Act)

Original Language Title: Lov om hundehold (hundeloven)

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Law of the dog-hold (dog law).

Date LO-2003-200-07-04-74
Ministry of The Justis and the Department of Emergency
Last modified LAW-2015 -06-19-65 from 01.10.2015
Published In 2003 booklet 10
Istrontrecation 01.01.2004
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Card title The dog law-hollow.

Capital overview :

Jf. former laws 9 July 1926 # 4, 4 July 1991 # 48.

Chapter 1. Initial provisions

SECTION 1. The civil society's responsibility, the purpose of the law and the relationship of other legislation

The civil society, both individuals and organizations, has the responsibility of within the legislating of the legislating and adding to the right of a positive and civic dog-hold, to delight for the individual dog-holding.

The law has for purpose to help promote a dog-hold that is taking into account security, security, ordinary calm and order. It provides rules for how the dog-security is to be practiced by the individual to be detained for such consideration. Further, the law provides rules on how individuals and the public can relate to dog-hold that does not provide adequate security, security, ordinary calm and order.

For the dog's unity, also regulations apply to other legislation, including the common rules of law on animal welfare and in the wholesale law, and also distinctive rules about dog-hold or animal hold e.g. in the house-rent law.

0 Modified by law 5 apr 2013 # 12.
SECTION 2. Definitions

In this law understood by

a) dog holder : the one who owns or has taken care of or hand about a dog for shorter or longer ;
b) children : people who are under 12 years ;
c) livestock : beef, sheep, goat, horse, pig and poultry ;
d) significantly damage to person : injuries that are considered body damage after the penal code Section 273.
0 Modified by law 19 June 2015 # 65 (ikr. 1 oct 2015).
SECTION 3. General tactic requirements

A dog-keeping is supposed to show the tactics to avoid the dog's cause of harm to people, animals, real estate or things. The dog holder shall ensure that the dog or dog security is not to unreasonable disadvantage for people, environment or other interests. Among other things, the dog holder is seeking to ward off that dog or dog-security maker's creating tiroiness for others.

The affected can demand to the dog holder that a lasting state or lasting relationship that does not provide adequate security, or as such an unreasonable disadvantage, is being directed.

Chapter 2. Sikring of dogs

SECTION 4. Almemorial rules about safeguards of dog The terms of letting dog be loose

Dogs can be loose only when they

a) are followed and controlled in the tactics as way, or
b) is the defensible gated in a place that is not open to public behavior.

Whoever holds a dog in bond is supposed to be able to have control with the dog, if they don't get accompanied by someone who has such control.

The dog holder should be seen that the dog is not perils against, jumping on, stalking or standing in the way of people who do not accept this. Has a dog this for habit, it should be kept in bond in places that are open to public behavior.

The dog holder is going to show particularly the tactics where there are children, to prevent such contact between dog and child as the child or adults who follow the child, not invite to, and to prevent children from being intimidated. If necessary, the dog should be placed in ties or kept close to the dog holder.

Dogs should always be held under such supervision that they barely even be prevented from driving or pursuing wild, jf. still Section 9 third joints.

SECTION 5. Offers against going from bound dog

The dog holder shall not walk from a bound dog right at the entrance of a building that is open to the public or by playgrounds.

SECTION 6. The safety of the dog at the ribbon-forced m.

In time from and with 1. April to and with 20. On August, a dog is to be held in ties or defensible, so that not it can chase or damage beef, sheep, goat, poultry, horse or wild, hernishing the wild eggs, nest and living.

The municipality can give regulation that dogs should be held in ties or defensible or gated

a) in and in association with residential areas and shopping areas,
b) in parks, at burial grounds, on and at schools, kindergartens and facilities for play, sport, sports or recreation,
c) on and at certain / provided hiking trails, hiking roads, marked ski slopes, camp and rest stations,
d) in particular indicated other areas on land, in water or sea that are widely taken as a hike and recreation areas,
e) of the entire or parts of the municipality in particular specified time periods when beef, sheep, goat or horse normally go out, or
f) under extraordinary conditions that make the bond coercion mandated to protect the villes.

Bspiritucoercion after letter c and d cannot be determined in greater extent than necessary and so that the envision of those who wish to travel with loose dog also looked to adequately, both what concerns the scope and geographical spread. By the determining of the band coercion after letter e and f, the ribbon can only be introduced in the areas of the municipality where pets have the right to pasture and actually grazes, or how wild to protect has its living area. The spirituality determined in the co-hold of the letter f must cease immediately the conditions indicate it. Where pasture, nature and recreation areas touch more municipalations, these should be interrelated to their regulations. The Communist's introduction of the ribbon force after letter f can be scratched to the county's

The municipality can give regulation that dogs do not have access to kindergartens, school farms or burial grounds.

0 Modified by law 26 aug 2011 # 40 (ikr. 1 jan 2012 ifg. res. 26 aug 2011 # 866).
SECTION 7. Especially about the safeties of dog in which tamrein grazes

In areas where the tamclean legal grazing, the dog holder should see that the dog does not unnecessarily worry or scare clean, even if it is under control or tied. Reinone's owner may demand that a dog that worries reindeer is kept cooped up while reindeer are moved past residence, seats or hut. The county can give regulation that dogs should be kept in ties or defensible or ingated when the envision of the reindriving dictates it.

Whether the behaviour of dog in area where tamrein grazes also applies to the reinoperating law Section 65.

0 Modified by law 15 June 2007 # 40 (ikr. 1 July 2007 ifg res. 15 June 2007 # 627).
SECTION 8. Especially about dog-dressur, hunting and catch

Hunting dog training, hunting dog tries and dressur can only be done with the consent of the thoroughholder or the person who has a public use right to the property. For the state general, the consent of the mountain board is granted.

For use of dog during hunting and catch mv. also applies to the vili law Section 23, jf. Section 26, and the reinoperating law Section 65.

0 Modified by law 15 June 2007 # 40 (ikr. 1 July 2007 ifg res. 15 June 2007 # 627).
SECTION 9. Exceptions from the fuse rules

Tape coercion set in or in co-hold of Section 4, 6 and 7 do not apply to

a) dog when used in reinpropulsion,
b) trained bufedog when it is used to guard beef, sheep or goat,
c) dog in active police-, customs, military and rescue service or during training or trial for such service,
d) dog in active use as the post-search dog after wounded or sick wild,
e) -Honest use purposes, refined areas or closer to designated hunderases or dog types or for dogs that have special training, when this is determined by the municipality by regulation or single-ceiling. By this, the municipality is able to lay out an area as a resource area for dogs, whose consent as mentioned in Section 8 first clause is,
f) dog when it is used for hunting, hunting dog training and hunting tries between 20. August and 1. April or when the band coercion is determined in co-hold of Section 6 other joints c, d and e.

Dog as mentioned in the first clause letter a to d or in provision that applies to the purposes of fair use purposes by letter e, can on a tactic as the way is released as naturally from the purpose of use.

A dog that is enjoyed as the hunting dog or is during training or trying for this can be dropped on a tactic as it is naturally from the purpose of use, when this is not in violation of the vili law, the nature of the natural diversity of law, or rules of the band coercion. The same is true for training and sampling of post-search dogs.

0 Modified by law 28 March 2014 # 9 (ikr. 1 June 2014 ifg. res. 28 March 2014 No. 371).

Chapter 3. Solving dogs

SECTION 10. Solving dogs

Anyone can occupy dog that is loose in violation of Section 4, 6 or 7, jf. Section 9, or with regulation given in co-hold of these paragraphs. In the ground in the hunting season where hunting is legal, still only rights hatters in the area and police are able to occupy dogs.

The dog is to be delivered to the dog holder, if this one is present. This doesn't apply if the dog holder clearly can't take care of the dog in the justifiable and legal way. If the dog is not delivered to the dog holder, it shall immediately be delivered to the police.

Unkeeper the dog holder to pick up the dog within a week after he or she is notified personally or by announcement in an ordinary read newspaper on the site, the police can sell, relocate or put the dog down. Is the stipulable requirement of marking after Section 13, it is sufficient to send notice to the person and address that the dog is registered to.

The ceilings and treatment of loose dogs after the paragrafen here shall occur in accordance with the rules of law on animal welfare.

0 Modified by law 5 apr 2013 # 12.

Chapter 4. Ro and order, number of dogs and marking dogs

SECTION 11. Ro and order mv.

The municipality can give regulation on the dog-hold of regard to ordinary calm and order and to counter littering. Rules that dogs should be kept in bond or defensible boxed or gated can only be given on those terms set in Section 6 other clauses.

SECTION 12. Number of dogs in a household or on a property

In order to keep people and animal security and tranquility and order, the municipality of regulation can set terms to keep more than a specific number of adult dogs in a household or on a property.

SECTION 13. Merking of Dogs

Private organizations can establish and operate an arrangement for registration and marking all dogs.

The king can give regulation on

a) that all dogs should be labeled, and that they should be registered in a register that is taken by one or more private organizations or by a public organ,
b) that a dog hold duties to provide genetic and other information to the registry of the dog and dog security,
c) that the dog holders will pay fees that cover the necessary costs of the arrangement, and
d) that the police should have visibility into the registry.

Chapter 5. People's rights and duties in emergency and danger situation

SECTION 14. Ingrasp on the spot against dog chasing or attacking mv.

The dog holder is going to make sure to keep or call the dog back and do what he can to ward off the wrongful danger when a dog chases or attacks humans or animals.

An otherwise illegal intervention against a dog is legal when someone does it to ward off the dog unjustly chasing or attacking humans or animals, if the procedure does not go further than necessary to avert damage, and besides it does not go beyond the defense in consideration of the attack of the attack and the attack of the attack.

As far as the following shonest regulations reach, they apply in front of the general rule in other clauses :

a) At ongoing or imminent attacks against a person, any action can do so against the dog that would appear as necessary to avert damage. This exemption is not the one that completely or partly has provoked an attack, from criminal liability or replacement liability.
b) When a dog chases or attacks the tamrein or house pets that graze legally, or when the dog unprovoked attack another dog, it may have exposed the animal's owner, holder or whoever fits the animal, do it procedures against the dog that appears as necessary to avert damage, so true the procedure does not go further than necessary and not beyond the defensible. This determination cannot be invoked when the animal that is being chased or attacked, unjustly has entered property as the dog holder is disposed of.
c) When the band coercion applies, some people who perform on dennes, or hunt-and-capture, put a dog by direct attacks on deer wild, still not a dog that is in active use as the search dog after sick or wounded wild.
d) Anyone can at the site put down a dog that's on-face in immediate connection with the fact that it has inflicted a person significantly damaging, if the dog still poses a clear danger. The same goes for if the dog has caused significantly damage to the tamrein, livestock, dogs or deer wild, if not the skit animal unjustly had entered property as the dog holder predisposed.

The Paragrafen here does not apply to police dogs being used legally. Heller does not apply to the paragrafen where the rules of emergency safety and emergency guardian make a dangerous use of the dog rightfully.

SECTION 15. Dog that poses clear danger of pets, tamrein and deer wild

A dog that without companion goes loose in ground or agricultural areas and poses a clear danger for pets and tamrein, can be intercepted by the thoroughkeeper, the fortifier, beiteeride, a touched reinowner or someone acting on behalf of these. If it doesn't allow himself to either occupy the dog or get the police to the site as quickly as the situation requires, the person may if needed to put the dog on the spot.

SECTION 16. Prater after interventing action against dog after Section 14 and 15

The person who has put to sleep or inflicted dog damage after Section 14 and 15 should be immediately able to report on this to the police. Law on animal welfare Section 4, jf. Section 12, if assistance to the animal is applicable to the person who has injured the animal.

0 Modified by law 5 apr 2013 # 12.

Chapter 6. Safety measures against problematic dog hold

SECTION 17. Immediate police measures to keep the security and safety of the individuals, the public and animals

Police can comply with the rules of the police law Section 6 intervene to dogs and dog holders to be detained individual or public safety or security, or to protect other animals.

The police may be able to otherwise in such cases impose a leash or time-limited use of mouthbasket, provide detailed injunction on inducing property where dog stays, impose on reducing the number of dogs, ban hounders presence in particular areas, give other injunction or ban that apply to the dog security or safeguards of dogs, take on private property or area, and if necessary take care of dogs. The law's ordinance has effect immediately, if nothing else is determined.

Conceived the dog holder to comply with the injunction or ban, the police for the dog-holder's bill could ensure that the necessary action is being made for the sake of consideration mentioned in the first clause.

If a dog has killed or inflicted a human being significantly damaging or attacked a child, the dog and other dogs in dog-holder may or may not be owned by the police where they exist, if referred to anyone's safety or public safety of course, it means an immediate vivaging.

The rules of the founding and complaint of the Management Act Chapter V and WE apply to the police ordinance after Section 17 other clauses, however so that there is no complaints of any complaints about immediate relief.

SECTION 18. Avoping or resettlement of a dog after one or more unwanted events

A dog that has attacked or injured a human being, the police in retrospect could be put to death if not this appears as an unsustainable measure. The same applies if the dog has chased or injured tamrein, livestock or deer wild, or if it has damaged another dog or pet. At the assessment, it is supposed to be placed emphasis on the danger that has been present, inflicted damage, the risk and the rise of the dog and the dog security can be believed to be subject to the future and the dog's innovation. The dog's economic value or the financial loss after inflicted damage should not be added weight.

If it is deemed practical and defensible, the police should seek to relocate a dog over to put it down.

If the dog security is not deemed safety-wise, the ordinance can be able to detensing or resettlement include all other dogs that the dog holder has dealt with.

The following shonest regulations apply in front of the general rules in the first and other clause :

a) A dog that has inflicted on children significantly damage, should normally be put off.
b) A dog that has attacked or significantly damaged animals in agriculture or tamrein should normally be put off if the animal's owner asks for it.
c) A dog that at one-sided attacks has significantly damaged other pets, co-rained other dogs, should normally be put off if the animal's owner asks for it, except where the dog is not believed to pose greater risks in the future than dogs usually do, nor can they feared to attack and damage the same eiers animal again.

A dog who has gone illegally loose or without good enough supervision, after police given the dog holder more than one written warning in the last three years, could be put to death or be replaced by the police. This applies without regard to whether the warning applies to the same dog. The betting can include all the dogs that the dog holder has dealt with. The warning is not considered single-ceiling.

SECTION 19. Dangerous dogs

The king can give regulation on the ban on keeping, breeding, or introducing dangerous dogs, or to impose semen or embryos from dangerous dogs. The scripture can set the requirements for documentation of the dog's race or type.

With dangerous dogs, dogs or dog types like particularly aggressive, fighting-willing and durable, and as because of these properties are dangerous to humans and animals. The first clause also applies to dog types that can easily be confused with dangerous dogs.

It is forbidden to hold or introduce dogs as

a) has been given training in or to attack or defend itself or the dog holder against humans,
b) has been given training in or to attack other dogs, or
c) single-dogs that appear to be particularly aggressive, fighting willing or with other strongly unwanted properties or advanced, so that they can be dangerous to humans or animals.

Is there doubt a dog walks in under the third clause of the letter c, may police take the dog in detention and demand that dog holder cost and co-appear at a savvy study of dog's behavior to clarify whether it is well-balanced or has a low threshold for aggression or other dangerous properties mv. police determine who is going to examine the dog. Unless the dog holder follows up within a reasonable deadline set by the police, the dog is considered to enter under the third clause of the letter c.

Dogs who are bred, introduced or held in violation of rules in or in the co-hold of this paragraph, can be put to be put off or imposed by the realm by the ordinance of the police.

SECTION 20. Exceptions from the rules of Section 19

A dog is not retaken by Section 19 third clause letter a or b if trained by the police or in the shonest case of others with the police permission, or is instituted in the realm of police permission.

A dog is not retaken by Section 19 third clause letter a if it is legally trained by a dog organization prior to the law of the law, or after the law of law enforcement of a dog organization with permission from the police. The dog cannot be sold or repositioned without the police permission. If the terms violated or the dog attack a human, it shall be put to be put down after the ordinance of the police, if not emergency guardian or hesitation justified the attack.

SECTION 21. Requirements for approval to have to do with specific dog types

The king can in regulation set terms to impose, hold or drive breeding with specific dog types or cereals of specific dog types. In the forewriting, it can be claimed for approval and whether requirements for abandoned samples or tests, whether claim of ribbon coercion, restriction in the number of dogs, dog-holder's age, vandel, liability insurance, and fees to cover costs mv. Sets the scripture claims for approval, the authority to grant approval is delegated to a private organization.

SECTION 22. Prebid for a person to be able to have with dog to do

Police can ban a dog-keeping to have with dog to do

a) when the dog holder's dog is passed down, repositioned or performed after Section 18, 19-20, or Section 21, jf. SECTION 24,
b) if the cuts from police after Section 17 are not followed up,
c) if police have put down or replaced the dog holder's dog after Section 17,
d) If the dog holder's dog has attacked a human,
e) if the person has trained a dog for attacks on or defense against humans without the police permission,
f) If the person has allowed a dog to participate in dog fight or has trained a dog for this,
g) if the dog holder after a warning from the police over the next three years again has allowed a dog to go illegally loose or without good enough supervision,
h) if the dog holder does not comply with terms or ban after Section 12 of the number of dogs in a household or on a property, or
in) if duties after Section 13 if marking of dog are violated and the duties are not met after notice from the police with due date for fulfillment.

Offers after the first clause can only be put if the person's dog-hold is not deemed to have been security-wise, or if the ban must be deemed necessary to better the public or individual's sense of security.

A person who is sentenced to punishment of prison for an offence that enacts the use of violence or threatening behavior can at the verdict of the conviction to have with dogs to do. The bid should be put if a dog has been used for the crime violation.

Whoever is forbidden to have with dog to do, cannot possess, possess or have any responsibility or his responsibility for or hand over a dog for shorter or longer term.

The bid can be restricted to apply for further specific dog types or dogs over a certain size.

The bid can be timed, but shall apply for at least three years. After three years, the police are able to overturn the ban that the police or the court has put after this paragrafen, if it is justifiable from the envision of security and the public and individual's safety.

0 Modified by law 19 June 2015 # 65 (ikr. 1 oct 2015).
SECTION 23. Register over the ordinance after Section 22

The police can locally or for the entire realm bring personnel records that contain information about the ban after Section 22. The king can give regulation on registration and also determine that other than the police should have access to the information to efficiencies hand-enforcement.

Chapter 7. Relocation and vilising mv. of dogs, replacement liability and punishment

SECTION 24 Police detention, resettlement, sale and vilising of dog

Police can take care of, relocate, sell or if needed to kill a dog if

a) The dog has been taken up after Section 10 and the dog holder has not received or retrieved the dog despite notice,
b) The dog is held without the dog holder to comply with a regulation after Section 11,
c) The dog is being held in violation of regulation after Section 12,
d) The dog is held in violation of regulation after Section 13 when this is determined in the regulation,
e) it is necessary to reach the goal after Section 17 first joints where this cannot be reached with less invasive measures after Section 17 other clauses,
f) terms of Section 18, 19 or 20 are present,
g) The dog is being held, used or bred in raised in violation of regulations given in co-hold of Section 21, or
h) some have to do with the dog in violation of a final ban after Section 22.

Attaches after first clause letter b to d can only be met if the dog holder is punished, or has received written warning for the violation of the Scripture due to compliance, and the forewriting is still being violated. Is the dog holder unknown or without known address, can make an announcement with the deadline for fulfillment instead of a newspaper that is commonly read on the site. Warning is provided by the police or by the registry driver when it comes to violation of regulation after Section 13.

Have the police taken care of the dog, it can be held in detention until it is met with the ordinance of sale, resettlement, execution, or devating the dog.

SECTION 25. Case management, overtrial, and commit of the ordinance

The law's ordinance after the law is single-decision by the Management Act. For the ordinance of Section 17, the determination of the Management Act Section 24 first clause was different not. Attackable can be scratched to the Police Directorate. The ordinance will be brought in for the court, the court can try all sides of the matter.

Whether deferred commit by complaint applies to the Management Act Section 42. Police can always demand that the complainant running and at the right time pays the costs of detention, jf. Section 26, if the commit is to endure. The complainant does not fill the claim, the ordinance can be placed in the works immediately.

The police are making sure that the relief is happening. It shall take place by the rules of law on animal welfare.

0 Modified by law 5 apr 2013 # 12.
SECTION 26 Responsibility for Costs

The dog holder is responding to private persons and the public for necessary costs by conducting measures following this law, herunder costs to the detention of the dog.

The police claim by the rules in the first clause is compultico-based on the outlay.

SECTION 27. Replacement liability

Whether replacement liability for damage caused by dog applies to the following of other lawpins and illegality, the civil rights law, Section 1-5 about liability for animals and relegality Act Section 66 about dogs.

0 Modified by law 15 June 2007 # 40 (ikr. 1 July 2007 ifg res. 15 June 2007 # 627).
SECTION 28. Punishment

With fines or jail until six months and fine, a dog is holding as intentional or involuntary overcomes Section 4-7 jf. Section 9 or regulations or single-pass by Section 6, 7, 11, 12 or 13 different clause letter a to b.

With fines or jail until six months and fine punishment a dog hold as intentional or negligent fails to prevent or avert the dog's legal

a) attacks or damages person,
b) chase, attacks or damage animals, or
c) by noise or otherwise volt unreasonable disadvantage for the otherwise.

By attacks on deer wild counts of thoroughness, hunting or capture is justified in the area and the viltorians that offended.

With fines or jail until six months and fine, it is punishable as intentional or negligent

a) fail to comply with the injunction and ban closed by police in accordance with the law of the law, or
b) overpass the ban given at Section 19, 21, 22 or by regulations or individual ordinance given following the provisions of these regulations.

In the same way, trials are punished.

0 Modified by law 19 June 2015 # 65 (ikr. 1 oct 2015).

Chapter 8. Lovens impact on Svalbard

SECTION 29. Svalbard

The king can give regulation on the involvement of the law of Svalbard and can determine the rights of law under consideration of the site of the site, herunder that regulations and individual ordinance of law should be able to be passed by other instees than otherwise.

Chapter 9. Ipowersetting. The rise and change of other laws. Overtime rules

SECTION 30. Ipowersetting

The law takes effect 1. January 2004.

SECTION 31 Changes in other legislation

When the law comes into effect, other laws change as follows :---

SECTION 32. Older regulations

The writings given with home law in law 4. July 1991 # 48 about the ban on entry, hold and breeding of dangerous dogs apply until they are repealifted by the King.

Regulations of dogs and dog-hold given with home in other provisions that are repea-ended or modified at Section 31, apply to 31. December 2006. Decisions in such regulations are dropping earlier if

a) The law here does not provide any authority at home to provide a provision with the appropriate content,
b) a provision is determined with the home of the law here that battles against the older determination, or
c) The determination is repeained by the organ that has adopted it.
SECTION 33. Single-pass by older legislation

Dresource areas for dogs laid out after the viltlaw Section 55, consists of the time that were determined by the authority that consented to lay out the area.

Other single-ceiling roofs hit with home in regulations that are repeaters at Section 31 and 32, abducter falls when the home of the dog falls if not the dog law gives access to such ordinance. Do it, apply to the ordinance until the case has been treated to new by the police or other management organ that can hit the ordinance following the law here.