California Food & Agricultural Code §31683 preempts breed-specific dangerous-dog ordinances — no city, including Chino, may declare a breed dangerous or vicious by breed alone. The only carve-out is Health & Safety Code §122331, which lets local governments require mandatory spay/neuter and breeding regulation by breed. Through its San Bernardino County animal-control contract, that exception applies in Chino: San Bernardino County Code §32.1501 requires pit bulls and pit-bull-mix dogs over 4 months to be spayed or neutered.
Breed-specific bans are off the table in Chino as a matter of state preemption. California Food & Agricultural Code §31683 states that 'no program regulating any dog shall be specific as to breed,' subject to one carve-out: California Health & Safety Code §122331(a), which authorizes cities and counties to enact breed-specific ordinances pertaining only to mandatory spay/neuter programs and breeding requirements, and which expressly forbids declaring 'any specific dog breed, or mixed dog breed' to be potentially dangerous or vicious. Chino itself has not adopted a breed-specific dangerous-dog ordinance (Chino Municipal Code Title 6 governs animals generally, with licensing at §6.08.020), and any such ordinance would be void under §31683. The HSC §122331 spay/neuter exception, however, is active in Chino through its animal-services contract with San Bernardino County: San Bernardino County Code §32.1501 requires that all pit bulls and pit-bull-mix dogs over four months old be spayed or neutered, with limited medical and registered-breeder exemptions (animalcare.sbcounty.gov/animallaws). Bites and dangerous-dog determinations in Chino are handled by individual-dog dangerous/vicious-dog hearings under California Food & Agricultural Code §31601 et seq., not by breed.
Any Chino ordinance declaring a breed dangerous would be unenforceable under Cal. Food & Ag. Code §31683. Owners of unaltered pit bulls or pit-bull-mix dogs over 4 months in Chino face citation and impound under San Bernardino County Code §32.1501 (mandatory spay/neuter), enforced by the Animal Resource Center of the Inland Empire. Dangerous-dog determinations follow the individual-dog process under Cal. Food & Ag. Code §31601 et seq.
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