Lake Lotawana, Missouri

Section 205.205 Tethering.

A. No owner, keeper, harborer, or maintainer of a dog may tether, fasten, chain or tie a dog, or allow his/her dog to be tethered, fastened, chained or tied to any permanent or temporary structure, or to any weight designed to restrict the dog’s freedom of movement to a limited area of space, except where:

1. The tether, chaining, or tying of the dog to any structure, post or weight is temporary, and

2. The tethering, chaining, or tying of the dog to any structure, post or weight is under the supervision of the owner, keeper, harborer, or maintainer or a responsible person to whom the task of supervisions is delegated.

B. The tethering, fastening, chaining or tying of a dog to any structure or post shall be considered temporary only if the time the dog is tethered, fastened, chained or tied to any structure, post or weight is:

1. No more than one-half (1/2) of an hour at any one (1) time, and

2. No more than total of three (3) hours within a twenty-four-hour period.