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If any dog declared vicious under G.L. 1956, § 4-13.1-11, when unprovoked, attacks, assaults, wounds, bites, or otherwise injures, kills or seriously injures a human being, the owner or keeper shall be fined the maximum amount provided in G.L. 1956, § 4-13.1-9(c) to be used as such town council may prescribe. No such fine shall be imposed unless that officer responsible for enforcement shall have conducted an investigation of such assault and shall have certified that such dog was off the property of its owner or keeper and at large at the time such assault occurred or that such assault resulted from the negligence of such owner or keeper, pursuant to G.L. 1956, § 4-13-1.1.
(Code 1982, § 4-30; Code 2003, § 10-3)
State Law reference— Regulation of vicious dogs, G.L. 1956, § 4-13.1-1 et seq.; penalty of $1,000.00 authorized for vicious dog assault on a person, G.L. 1956, § 4-13.1-9(c).