The St. Mary’s Parish Council has recently voted unanimously to ban pit bulls within unincorporated areas of the parish.
As reported in Franklin’s Daily Iberian, the ordinancemakes it illegal to:
own, possess, keep, exercise control over, maintain, harbor, transport or sell any pit bull…in the designated areas of St. Mary Parish. It also provides restrictions and stipulations to any owner currently owning the breed as of the bill’s starting date of July 1.