Excessive Barking Dog Owners Could Be Looking at Fines

“An Act to Amend the Laws Regarding Nuisance Dogs,” is a new bill which hopes to cut down on excessive dog barking in Maine.

The measure is sponsored by Sen. Rick Bennett, R-Oxford, and would expand the state’s current nuisance dog law. That law only applies to dogs that cause injury or property damage.

From the “An Act to Amend the Laws Regarding Nuisance Dogs:”

This bill amends the definition of “nuisance dog” to include a dog or wolf hybrid that 16 disturbs the peace of an individual by excessive barking, howling or yelping, and the individual is not trespassing on the dog or wolf hybrid owner’s or keeper’s premises at the time of the excessive barking, howling or yelping. The bill also explicitly authorizes a person to file a written complaint to a sheriff, local law enforcement officer or animal control officer if the person’s peace has been disrupted by a dog that barks, howls or yelps excessively.

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