Amador County's Animal Control Ordinance contains no breed-specific bans or breed-based licensing differences. Dog regulation in unincorporated areas is conduct-based (at-large, bite, nuisance). California law (Food & Agricultural Code 31683) bars local programs from being breed-specific, except for spay/neuter rules.
We reviewed Amador County Code Title 8 (the Animal Control Ordinance) and found no breed-specific dog ban and no breed-based license fee or insurance requirement. The County's dog rules in Chapter 8.24 and Chapter 8.08 are conduct-based: they address running at large, biting, befouling public property, and nuisance noise, regardless of breed. After a reported bite, the animal control director may require any dog to be confined or leashed (Sections 8.24.020-8.24.030) without reference to breed. This approach is consistent with California Food & Agricultural Code Section 31683, which provides that, except as allowed for spay/neuter programs under Health & Safety Code Section 122331, 'no program regulating any dog shall be specific as to breed.' In other words, California prohibits local breed-specific dangerous-dog laws, but lets counties adopt breed-specific spay/neuter or breeding rules. Amador County has not adopted any such breed-specific sterilization ordinance in its published code. If a dog acts dangerously, the County and the State use behavior-based dangerous/vicious-dog procedures rather than breed labels.
There are no breed-based penalties in Amador County. Dangerous-dog consequences arise from a dog's behavior (e.g., biting), handled under the County's bite/control provisions and California's potentially-dangerous/vicious-dog statutes.
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