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Riverhead Town to delay changing dog law

Riverhead Town Hall is at 200 Howell Ave.

Photo credit: Carl Corry

A code change that would have expanded Riverhead Town’s ability to seize dogs was delayed a bit after a public hearing Tuesday, when one resident complained that the new wording was too subjective and vague.

She objected to one particular phrase, which would let a town worker take her dog even if it was in her fenced-in yard, if anyone walking past her house felt “intimidated ... or in reasonable...

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