Solano County's animal code (Chapter 4) contains no breed-specific ban or restriction. Dangerous and vicious animals are regulated by behavior, not by breed. Under California Food and Agricultural Code section 31683, local dog-control programs cannot be breed-specific, except for spay/neuter or breeding programs allowed by Health and Safety Code section 122331.
There is no breed-specific legislation in unincorporated Solano County. Chapter 4 of the County Code, including Article IV on Dangerous Animals, regulates animals based on conduct - whether an animal has bitten, attacked, injured, or threatened a person or another animal - and not on breed. The definitions of 'dangerous animal,' 'potentially dangerous animal,' and 'vicious animal' in sections 4-11 and 4-50 turn entirely on the animal's behavior and the owner's knowledge, with no mention of pit bulls, Rottweilers, or any specific breed. California law constrains what counties may do here: Food and Agricultural Code section 31683 provides that, except as allowed by Health and Safety Code section 122331, no program regulating dogs may be specific as to breed. The narrow exception in section 122331 permits a city or county to adopt breed-specific requirements only for mandatory spay/neuter or breeding programs - not for ownership bans. Solano County has not been identified as having adopted such a breed-specific spay/neuter ordinance in Chapter 4. As a result, owners of any breed are subject to the same dangerous-animal and licensing rules, applied according to the individual animal's behavior.
Because regulation is behavior-based, enforcement follows the dangerous-animal process: an animal that bites, attacks, or injures may be declared potentially dangerous or dangerous after a hearing (sections 4-52 through 4-55) and made subject to conditions such as secure confinement, muzzling, microchipping, liability insurance, and spay/neuter, or ordered destroyed - regardless of breed.
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