TITLE: Relating to municipal regulation of dogs used for search and rescue or law enforcement purposes.

SUMMARY: Relating to municipal regulation of dogs used for search and rescue or law enforcement purposes.

FULL TEXT:
AN ACT relating to municipal regulation of dogs used for search and rescue or law enforcement purposes. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 341, Local Government Code, is amended by adding Section 341.906 to read as follows: Sec. 341.906. MUNICIPAL REGULATION OF CERTAIN SERVICE DOGS. (a) In this section, "volunteer search and rescue team" means an individual or an organized group of volunteers issued a written document by a law enforcement department that recognizes the individual or group as a person or group that trains dogs to assist in the location of a lost or missing person or for law enforcement purposes. (b) A municipality may not adopt or enforce an ordinance, including a leash law, that restricts the ability of a volunteer search and rescue team to train a service dog for search and rescue or law enforcement purposes. SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.