Union City does not ban or restrict any dog breed. California Food and Agricultural Code section 31683 preempts breed-specific bans, so the city instead regulates individual dogs through its vicious-dog abatement chapter regardless of breed.
Union City's Municipal Code contains no breed-specific ban. California Food and Agricultural Code section 31683 bars local agencies from adopting dog regulations that are specific to breed, except for limited spay/neuter or breeding programs, which preempts any pit bull or other breed ban. Union City instead addresses dangerous dogs through its Abatement of Vicious Dogs chapter (Chapter 8.14): a dog found to be vicious is declared a public nuisance and may be ordered confined, fenced, muzzled, leashed, removed from the city, or humanely destroyed. The Animal Fancier Permit application and licensing process record each dog's breed but impose no breed-based restriction. Determinations are based on a dog's behavior, not its breed.
There are no penalties for owning any particular breed. A dog of any breed adjudicated vicious under Chapter 8.14 becomes a public nuisance subject to mandatory confinement, muzzling, fencing, removal from Union City, or humane destruction by city order.
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