Derby, Kansas

6.04.290 – Unlawful tethering or picketing.

1. It is unlawful to continuously picket a dog for more than one continuous hour.
2. It is unlawful to repicket a dog, for any length of time, where said dog was previously picketed within the same twenty-four-hour period and where said dog has not been provided without a hiatus from picketing for a period of three continuous hours prior to the repicketing.
3. It is unlawful to picket a dog for a total time period in excess of three hours in any twenty-four-hour period.
4. It is unlawful to picket a dog in such a manner or in a location that allows the dog to risk injury, strangulation or entanglement on fences, trees or other manmade or natural obstacle.
5. It is unlawful to attach chains or other tether restraining implements directly to a dog without the proper use of a collar, harness or other device designed for that purpose and made from a material that prevents injury to the animal.
6. It is unlawful to picket a dog on a chain, leash, rope, or tether less than ten feet in length.
7. It is unlawful to picket a dog using a chain, leash, rope, collaring device, tether, or any assembly or attachment weighing more than one-eighth of the animal’s body weight or where the weight of said chain, leash, rope, collaring device, tether, assembly, or attachment inhibits the free movement of the animal within the area picketed.