If you have a dog and you don’t pick up its faeces, you risk a fine of 750 euros in this city!
Many municipalities in France have been fighting against dog droppings for several years now. These litter the sidewalks and streets and represent an inferno for local residents. Some The municipalities then introduced fines.
“Excrement on public roads is intolerable in the city”
All dog owners know: they have a duty to pick up their dog’s excrement. And this with the risk of being fined. But some municipalities have decided to increase the amount of the latter.
The government website also specified: “Excrement on public roads is intolerable in the city. This reflects a lack of education of the animal and a lack of hygiene and good citizenship on the part of the master” .
Before adding: “If you collect your animal’s excrement or take it to a place created by the city, it can be integrated into the urban environment. The offender will be fined for 3rd class fines (450 euros) ».
By the this fine may increase depending on which municipality you live in. This is especially what the town hall of Couzon-au-Mont-d’Or, in the metropolis of Lyon, decided. At the end of her tether, she cracked down on owners who don’t pick up manure.
A few days ago, the City Hall issued a permanent decree. The latter indicates that it is mandatory for dog owners to have bags in their possession to collect animal excrement.
Society is tired
The decree also specifies that the owners must obligation to collect faeces without delay left by their pets on the public highway. But also in green areas. Otherwise, they risk a large fine.
In fact, owners must pick up feces even if they are on the grass. And it is a radical decision made by the town hall with good reason. She noticed an increase in defecation in these public places.
However, the town hall had first chosen prevention. Then the installation of traffic signs began. And this with that purpose to encourage owners to collect faeces.
But it obviously didn’t work, explain our colleagues from Le Progrès. That is why owners who do not collect faeces will from now on be subject to a colossal fine.
According to the decree, people who do not have an excrement bag can face a 2nd class fine. The latter can go up to 150 euros. And it is an amount that can explode.
A fine of 750 euros
If the dog owner does not pick up their dog’s excrement, the fine will be much higher. Since it falls under a ” violation of 4th class up to 750 euros“.
One thing is certain, the municipalities can no longer take it and no longer want to let the incivility of certain dog owners pass. In Béziers in Hérault, the town hall has decided to go even further in the fight against faeces.
From now on, the municipality uses a DNA file. Thanks to animal stools left on public roads, she has the opportunity to find the owners. Thus the latter will then receive a large fine.
Actu.fr also reported: “On the Couzon-au-Mont-d’Or site, the town hall reminds that bag dispensers are available to residents in various places in the village and that these are “regularly filled””.
Many decisions were made with the aim of stopping this rudeness.
