What is the new pooper scooper law in Wilmington?
According to the revised city ordinance in Part 2, Section 12-28, that covers domestic animal waste, “No person in custody or control of an animal shall allow said animal to discharge any fecal matter on any public property unless the person in custody or control of said animal immediately and fully removes and disposes of the feces.” “Such public properties include, but are not limited to, streets, sidewalks, plazas, parks, rights-of-way, paths, public access areas, storm drains, ditches, streams, creeks, drainage-ways, other publicly owned property and dedicated and officially accepted easements.” As of Nov. 1, 2009 it will be unlawful for the owner or handler of an animal “to take it off its own property without the means to properly and immediately remove and dispose of the animal’s feces,” the ordinance states. Those means “shall consist of having on one’s person a device such as a plastic bag or other suitable ‘scooper’ that can be used to fully clean up and contain the animal’s
