BYELAWS RELATING TO DOGS FOULING FOOTWAYS AND GRASS VERGES

DOGS FOULING FOOTWAYS
AND GRASS VERGES

Byelaws made under Section 235 of the Local Government Act 1972 by the Shrewsbury and Atcham Borough Council for the Good Rule and Government of the Borough of Shrewsbury and Atcham and for the prevention and suppression of nuisances.

1. No person in charge of a dog shall allow the dog to foul a footway or grass verge (being a footway or grass verge to which this byelaw applies) by depositing its excrement thereon:

Provided that in proceedings for an offence against this byelaw it shall be a defence for the person charged to prove that he took all reasonable precaution and exercised all due diligence to avoid the commission of the offence.

2. This byelaw applies to:-

(a) the footway of any highway or of any public place; and

(b) a grass verge which is not more than 3 metres wide and is

(i) adjacent to the carriageway or footway of a highway; and
(ii) managed by a local authority and maintained in good order

3. For the purposes of this byelaw the owner of the dog shall be deemed in charge thereof unless the court is satisfied that at the time when the dog fouled the footway or grass verge it had been placed in or taken into the charge of some other person.

4. Any person offending against this byelaw shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds.

5. The byelaws relating to the fouling of footways which were made by the Mayor Aldermen and Burgesses of the Borough of Shrewsbury of which the Shrewsbury and Atcham Borough Council is the statutory successor on the 17th day of May 1963 and which was confirmed by the Secretary of State on the 18th day of July 1963 and the byelaws relating to the fouling of footways made by the County Council of the Administrative County of Salop insofar as they relate to the area of the former Rural District of Atcham of which Shrewsbury and Atcham Borough Council is the statutory successor on the 9th day of March 1964 and which were confirmed by the Secretary of State on the 27th May 1964 are repealed with effect from the date on which these byelaws came into operation.