Saline County, AR Animal Ordinances: Mandatory Spay/Neuter (2026)

02(2), enacted by Ordinance No. 2014-009, sets the conditions an owner must meet once a dog is judicially declared vicious or a nuisance in the Hot Springs Village portion of unincorporated Saline County. Alongside requiring a "Beware of Dog" sign, a muzzle and a restraint rated to at least 300 pounds of tensile strength whenever the dog leaves the property, and proof of at least $100,000 in liability insurance covering the dog, subsection (d) requires the owner to have the dog spayed or neutered by a veterinarian and to keep veterinary certification of the procedure.

Subsection (e) makes animal control responsible for verifying every one of those requirements, spay or neuter included, before the dog is returned to its owner. Failing to comply is itself a separate violation: subsection (j) makes it a misdemeanor for the owner of a vicious or nuisance dog to fail to meet these conditions, and any dog found in violation is subject to immediate seizure and impoundment. The same compliance duty carries over to the county's high-risk breed provisions in subsection (3)(d): a high-risk breed dog that a court finds inadequately confined is likewise declared vicious or nuisance, and its owner must complete the Section 2 spay/neuter requirement, among others, before regaining custody, though a $500 compliance bond can keep the dog with the owner while the case is pending.