Bellevue, NE Animal Ordinances: Microchipping (2026)

Section 6-18(J) is the only microchip requirement in the Bellevue Code of Ordinances. It applies narrowly: to any dog judicially determined to be a dangerous dog, so long as it is not ordered destroyed, and to any dog the city's animal control authority administratively and finally determines to be a potentially dangerous dog under § 6-18(H). Within 30 days of that determination, the owner must have the dog spayed or neutered and implanted with microchip identification, at the owner's expense, by a licensed veterinarian, and must then submit written proof of both the spay/neuter and the microchip number to the animal control authority within 72 hours of the procedure.

The same subsection also requires the dog to be licensed specifically as a dangerous or potentially dangerous dog within that 30-day window. Outside this narrow trigger, nothing in Chapter 6's general licensing division (§§ 6-31 et seq.) or its impoundment provisions (§§ 6-51 through 6-55) requires a routine pet to be microchipped; ordinary dog and cat licensing in Bellevue runs on tags and city records, not implanted chips. Missing the 30-day microchip and spay/neuter deadline, or the 72-hour proof deadline, is treated as noncompliance with the dangerous-dog order and can trigger the § 6-18(I) reckless-owner process, which revokes the owner's pet licenses and bars owning any animal in the city for 48 months.