Insiza Rural District Council (Dog Licensing and Control) By-laws, 2025

These by-laws require dogs in the Insiza Rural District Council area to be licensed and set out how the council deals with strays and nuisance animals. A dog is "at large" when roaming beyond its owner's property without restraint.

The council keeps a register of licences, prohibits keeping a dog that causes a nuisance, caps the number of dogs that may be kept at any premises without permission, and provides for impounding, sale and destruction, for inspection and enforcement by council or police officers, and for the council and its officials to be exempt from liability for loss of a dog.

The First Schedule sets out what may be done in each case. A dog at large, whether or not vaccinated, may be impounded or shot. Where the dog has bitten someone, it may be impounded or shot, the owner must pay the health bills incurred, and compensation to the injured person is determined by the court. A nuisance dog that is not at large may also be impounded or shot.

The Second Schedule of fees and the Third Schedule of penalties are printed entirely as US$0,00 — the licence, its replacement badge, the application to keep extra dogs, and every listed offence including keeping an unlicensed dog and a dog at large. As published, the licensing and control duties therefore carry no stated fee or fine, and amounts would have to come from a later amendment. Fees and penalties are stated to be payable in local currency at the prevailing interbank rate.