<div class="chunk-title">Sec. 5-8. - Wearing of collar, tag and identification required.</div>
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               (a)
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               Upon the owner's compliance with the rabies inoculation and registration provisions
               of this chapter, there shall be issued to the owner a numbered rabies vaccination
               tag, stamped with the number and the year for which the tag was issued.
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               (b)
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               It shall be unlawful for any dog or cat owner to fail to provide his dog or cat with
               a collar or harness to which a current county registration/rabies vaccination tag
               shall be securely attached.
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               (c)
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               A collar or harness with attached tag shall be worn at all times. A dog or cat shall
               be exempt from wearing the collar or harness when the dog or cat is confined to an
               enclosure on the owner's premises, or during the time the dog or cat is performing
               at shows, obedience trials, tracking tests, field trials, training schools or other
               events sanctioned and supervised by a recognized organization. Owners of dogs and
               cats not wearing a tag as required in this section may be prosecuted for violating
               this chapter, or the dog or cat may be impounded.
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               (Code 1978, Â§ 3-8; Ord. of 12-20-2010, Â§Â§ 15, 16)
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            <p class="refstatelaw0" block_type="hang"><b>State Law referenceâ€” </b>
               Dogs and cats not wearing required rabies vaccination tags, G.S. 130A-192.
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