Menifee has no breed-specific restrictions -- no breed of dog is banned or specially regulated. The City's dangerous-animal rules (Municipal Code Chapter 10.06) are based entirely on an individual animal's behavior, and California law prohibits cities from regulating dogs by breed except for spay/neuter programs.
Menifee Municipal Code Chapter 10.06 (Potentially Dangerous and Dangerous Animals, adopted by Ordinance 2018-252) contains no breed-specific language. Section 10.06.02 defines a 'dangerous animal' by conduct: an animal that twice in 48 months has pursued, attacked, bitten or injured a person or animal in two separate incidents; an animal that has once caused death or substantial injury; an animal previously declared potentially dangerous whose owner failed to restrain it; or a dog declared potentially dangerous under California state law. A 'potentially dangerous animal' is one that has once caused an injury less severe than substantial injury, or is found actively pursuing livestock, poultry, dogs or cats. State law controls the breed question: California Food and Agricultural Code Section 31683 provides that no local program regulating dogs may be specific as to breed, except as provided in Health and Safety Code Section 122331, which permits only breed-specific mandatory spay/neuter programs. Menifee has not adopted any breed-specific spay/neuter ordinance.
Owners of animals declared potentially dangerous or dangerous under Chapter 10.06 face restraint orders, impoundment and abatement of the animal, hearing procedures, and possible court proceedings. Violations of the animal code are infractions or, in specified cases, misdemeanors, with fines set by City Council resolution.
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