Saturday, April 8, 2017

The missing laws

The dog laws in NSW are pretty good. If only councils would enforce them seriously!

But, a couple are missing:

Negligently failing to contol a dog causing serious injury: 5 years, $20k fine, restitution to victim; ...death: 15 years, $50k fine, restitution to victim's family.

Recklessly failing to control a dog causing serious injury: 8 years, $40k fine, restitution;...death: 20 years, $100k fine; restitution.

The penalty would apply to the person who is in proximate charge of the dog, or the owner, or the contoller of the property where the dog is known to habitually reside.

Negligently is where the person is passive and has not been warned, recklessly is where the person urges the dog on, fails to respond reasonably to a warning by any person, where the dog has previously attacked or is a dangerous dog or has the dog in a public place.

Currently the penalties for a dog causing death or serious injury are trivial.

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