Islip has no breed-specific dog ban, and it could not adopt one: New York's Agriculture and Markets Law bars any municipal dangerous-dog program from regulating dogs in a manner that is specific as to breed.
There is no Town of Islip ordinance restricting pit bulls or any other dog by breed, and state law preempts breed-specific legislation statewide. New York Agriculture and Markets Law Section 107(5) permits a municipality to adopt its own program for the control of dangerous dogs but provides that no such program may be less stringent than the state article and that no such program shall regulate such dogs in a manner that is specific as to breed. As a result, Islip regulates dogs by individual behavior rather than by breed: a dog is controlled only if it is allowed to run at large (Town Code Sec. 12-2), kept as a nuisance, or adjudicated dangerous under the behavior-based test in AGM Sections 108 and 123. Breed alone is never a lawful basis for a restriction in Islip.
Not applicable; a breed-specific local ban would be preempted and unenforceable under NY AGM Sec. 107(5). Dogs that bite or attack are instead handled as dangerous dogs under AGM Sec. 123 and Town Chapter 12.
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