Redding, CA Animal Ordinances: Microchipping (2026)

Chapter 7.13 governs dangerous dog classification. After the city manager's designee initiates a hearing under § 7.13.080 and a hearing officer or the administrative hearings board finds a dog dangerous, § 7.13.110(A) lists conditions the board may impose in a written order, including that within ten business days the owner or keeper must obtain an identification microchip embedded under the dog's skin (§ 7.13.110(A)(10)). Related conditions adopted the same day include spaying or neutering the dog within the same ten-business-day window (A)(7), displaying a distinctive 'dangerous dog' license tag at all times (A)(8) and (§ 7.13.140), securely confining the dog so it cannot reach adjoining property (A)(9), carrying liability insurance of $50,000 to $300,000 if the owner also owns the premises (A)(6), and notifying the city if the dog escapes, dies, is sold, or moves (A)(12)-(13).

Hiding, releasing, or transferring a dangerous dog without the administrative hearings board's written authorization is a separate misdemeanor under § 7.13.110(B). Because the microchip duty attaches only after a dangerous dog finding, ordinary pet dogs and cats in Redding carry no citywide microchip requirement; the license-tag and rabies-vaccination rules in Chapter 7.12 apply to them instead.