The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Nuisance Animal Ordinance makes it illegal for any person to own or maintain an animal in such a manner to cause a public nuisance.

Examples of situations that constitute a nuisance include:

• Having an animal which disturbs the rights of or threatens the safety of a member of the general public or interferes with the ordinary use and enjoyment of his/her property
• Allowing an animal to damage the property of anyone other than its owner
• Maintaining animals in an environment of unsanitary conditions that results in offensive odors
• Allowing or permitting an animal to bark, whine, howl, crow or cackle in an excessive, continuous or untimely fashion that it interferes with the ordinary use and enjoyment of neighboring properties.
• Failing to confine a female dog in heat
• Failing to remove feces deposited by a dog on any public street, sidewalk, gutter, park or other publicly-owned or private property

Call 311 if you have any questions about a nuisance situation.