*ALERT** Rockwood, Tennessee

Rockwood City Hall
110 North Chamberlain Avenue
Rockwood, Tennessee 37854
Phone: 865-354-0611
FAX: 865-354-0348

Mayor Michael Miller
865-354-0611
E-mail: rockwood@icx.net

Vice Mayor
Darryl Meadows

CITY COUNCIL
Grover East
Dudley Evans
James Neal
Ray Collett
James Watts

Per the city clerk, please address all faxed or mailed correspondence and/or documentation to the attention of the city council, and she will ensure they receive same.

This issue will be addressed at the January 21, 2008 city council meeting. This is a little ways down the road, so please don't let this one fall through the cracks!

Rockwood mayor making move to ban pit bulls

Posted: Dec 3, 2007 02:35 PM CST

ROCKWOOD (WATE) -- The mayor of Rockwood is trying to get pit bulls banned within city limits.

Mayor Mike Miller is drafting an ordinance to ban the breed.

He says he's been talking about this for awhile and so far, he hasn't received any negative feedback from citizens.

The mayor describes the ordinance as a pre-emptive measure rather than waiting until after something like a mauling happens. In Knox County in November, a woman was fatally mauled by her roommate's pit bulls.

The ordinance will go before the Rockwood City Council at its meeting on January 21 at 7:00 p.m.

Around 200 U.S. cities and towns restrict or ban ownership of certain breeds such as pit bulls.

However, Rockwood, which already has a vicious dog law on the books, would be the first city to ban pit bulls in East Tennessee.

http://www.wate.com/Global/story.asp?S=7443935&nav=0RYv
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