You may have received an e-mail regarding the North Charleston Municipal code regarding sanitation and your pet. If you did not receive the e-mail, please contact our office so we may update your e-mail address. The e-mail that went out is as follows:
Sandpines Residents,
Please be aware of the North Charleston Municipal Code regarding cleaning up after your pets. Numerous complaints have been received about neighbors as well as people from the Woodlands, walking their dogs and not cleaning up after them. This is unacceptable and also against the law. Owners are encouraged to report this to the animal control office with the N. Charleston Police Dept. The number is 843-740-2815. Please call this office directly for citations based on violations of the City's Ordinance. If a complaint is issued, they give 2 warnings and post the letter of warning on the animal owner's door if they are not at home. If the owner does not respond and correct the issue, they are taken to court with a fine of $1087. They treat this as a criminal case and the defendant appears before a municipal judge. If the defendant does not appear in court, they are arrested.
Please be aware of the North Charleston Municipal Code regarding cleaning up after your pets. Numerous complaints have been received about neighbors as well as people from the Woodlands, walking their dogs and not cleaning up after them. This is unacceptable and also against the law. Owners are encouraged to report this to the animal control office with the N. Charleston Police Dept. The number is 843-740-2815. Please call this office directly for citations based on violations of the City's Ordinance. If a complaint is issued, they give 2 warnings and post the letter of warning on the animal owner's door if they are not at home. If the owner does not respond and correct the issue, they are taken to court with a fine of $1087. They treat this as a criminal case and the defendant appears before a municipal judge. If the defendant does not appear in court, they are arrested.
This is the sanitation ordinance as it reads in its entirety.
Article 1 - Animal Control - Ord. No. 2006-69, 12-12-06 states:Sec. 4-11. Sanitation.(a) No owner or custodian of any animal shall cause or allow such animal to soil defile or defecate on any public property or upon any street, public way, play area or common ground owned jointly by the members of a homeowners or condominium association, or upon private property other than that of the owner, unless such owner or custodian immediately removes and disposes of all feces deposited by such animals by the following methods:
(1) Collection of the feces by appropriate implement and placement in a paper bag or plastic bag or other container; and
(2) Removal of such bag or container to the property of the animal owner or custodian and disposition thereafter in a manner as otherwise may be permitted by law.
(b) No person owning, harboring or keeping an animal within the city shall permit any waste matter from the animal to collect and remain on property of the owner or custodian or on the property of others so as to cause or create an unhealthy, unsanitary, dangerous or offensive living condition on the owner's or custodian's property, or to abutting property of others.
(c) No person owning, harboring, keeping or in charge of any other animal shall cause unsanitary, dangerous or offensive conditions by virtue of the size or number of animals maintained at a single location or due the inadequacy of the facility.
(d) Stables, coops, warrens, pens and other enclosures in places where any animal or fowl is kept shall at all times be maintained by the keeper of such animal or fowl in a clean and sanitary condition and in such condition that it does not give offense to other persons in the vicinity thereof or constitute a public nuisance or a menace to the public health.
