In short
  

Cannot hold these dogs :

People of less than 18 years ;
The major ones in supervision ;
People condemned for crime or violence (virgin criminal record) ;
The people to which the mayor withdrew the property or the guard of a dog because it presented a danger to the people or the domestic animals.

Not to respect only one of these provisions constitutes an offence liable to 3750 euros fine and 3 months to prison.

Regulation
Prohibition :
  Parking in the common parts of the apartment buildings.
Obligations :
  Declaration in town hall ;
Anti-rabic vaccination ;
Special certificate of insurance civil liability ;
Port of the muzzle and held dog leaves some by a major person ;
Certificate of Birth or pedigrée (Book of the French Origins (LOF)) which proves the membership of the dog to the race ;
Chart of tattooing or microchip.
Sanction :
 

Not to have to declare its dog in town hall: 750 euros of fine ;
Not to be covered by a special insurance civil liability : 450 euros of fine ;
Not to have made vaccinate its dog counters the rage : 450 euros of fine ;
Not to have made tattoo its dog (tattooing or transponder) : 450 euros of fine ;
To station in the common parts of the apartment buildings : 150 euros of fine ;
Not to present at any request a police force the receipt of the declaration in town hall : 450 euros of fine.

Not to present papers of the LOF implies the classification of the dog in 1st category.




Extract of the law n° 99-5 of January 6, 1999 relating to the animals dangerous and wandering and the protection of the animals

Article 1er

If an animal is likely, taking into account the methods of its guard, to present a danger, for the people or the domestic animals, the mayor, of his own initiative or at the request of any person concerned, can prescribe with the owner or the guard of this animal to take measures to prevent the danger.
In the event of inexecution, by the owner or the guard of the animal, prescribed measurements, the mayor can, by decree, to place the animal in a discharge point adapted to the reception and the guard of this one. The expenses are the responsibility of the owner or the guard.
If, at the end of a frank time of guard of eight working days, the owner or the guard does not present all the guarantees as for the application of prescribed measurements, the mayor authorizes the manager of the discharge point, after opinion of a veterinary surgeon elected by the direction of the veterinary services, either to make proceed to the euthanasia of the animal, or to have about it under the conditions envisaged to II article 213-4.
The owner or the guard of the animal is invited to present his observations before the setting in?uvre of the provisions of this article. In the event of urgency, this formality is not required and the capacities of the mayor can be exerted by the prefect.


Article 2
Art. 211-1.
  The types of dogs likely to be dangerous being the subject of the measurements specific envisaged by articles 211-2 to 211-5, without damage of the provisions of article 211, are divided into two categories :
• first category : dogs of attack ;
• second category : defense and watchdogs.
A decree of and Minister the Minister of Interior Department for agriculture draws up the list of the types of dogs concerned with each one of these categories.

Art. 211-2.

I - Cannot hold the dogs mentioned with the article 211-1 :
• old people of less than eighteen years ;
• the major ones in supervision unless they were not authorized there by the judge of the supervisions ;
• people condemned for crime or to a sorrow of imprisonment with or without deferment for offence registered with the bulletin n° 2 of the criminal record or, for the foreign nationals, in an equivalent document ;
• the people to which the property or the guard of a dog was withdrawn pursuant to article 211. The mayor can grant an exemption from prohibition in consideration of the behavior of the applicant since the decision of withdrawal, provided that this one were marked more than ten years before the deposit of the declaration aimed to article 211-3.

II - Is punished three months of imprisonment and of 3 750 euros fine makes it hold a dog pertaining to the first or the second category mentioned in article 211-1, in infringment with enacted prohibition with the I of this article.


Art. 211-3.

I - For the people other than those mentioned in article 211-2, the detention of dogs mentioned in article 211-1 is subordinated to the deposit of one declaration to the town hall of the place of residence of the owner of the animal or, when it differs from that of its owner, of the place of residence of the dog. This declaration must be again deposited each time at the town hall of the new residence.

II - It is given receipt of this declaration by the mayor when y are joined the parts justifying :
• identification of the dog conforms to article 276-2 (tattooing) ;
• anti-rabic vaccination of the valid dog ;
• for the male and female dogs of the first category, the veterinary certificate of sterilization of the animal ;
• under conditions fixed by decree, of an insurance guaranteeing the civil liability for the owner of the dog or that which holds it, for the damage caused with the thirds by the animal. The members of the family of the owner or that who holds the animal are regarded as third within the meaning of the present provisions.

III - Once the declaration deposited, it must be satisfied permanently in the conditions enumerated to II.


Art. 211-4.
 

I - Acquisition, the transfer on a purely free or expensive basis, except the cases envisaged with the third subparagraph of article 211 or the third subparagraph of article 213-7, the importation and the introduction on the metropolitan territory, in the overseas departments and the local authority of Saint-Pierre-and-Miquelon the dogs of the first category mentioned article 211-1 are prohibited.

II - The sterilization of the dogs of the first category is obligatory. This sterilization gives place to a veterinary certificate.

III - The fact of acquiring, of yielding on a purely free or expensive basis, except the cases envisaged with the third subparagraph of article 211 or the third subparagraph of article 213-7, of importing or of introducing on the metropolitan territory, in the overseas departments and the local authority of Saint-Pierre-and-Miquelon the dogs of the first category mentioned in article 211-1 is punished six months of imprisonment and 15 000 euros fine.
The fact of holding a dog of the first category without to have made carry out its sterilization is punished sorrows envisaged with the first subparagraph. The following complementary sorrows can be marked to the physical people :
• confiscation of the dogs concerned, under the conditions envisaged in article 131-21 of the penal code ;
• prohibition, for one three years duration at most, to practice a profession or social since the facilities which this activity gets were knowingly used to prepare or commit the offence, under the conditions envisaged in article 131-29 of the same code.

Art. 211-5.
 

I - The access of the dogs of the first category to transport in commun runs, the public places except for the public highway and to the buildings open to the public is prohibited. Their parking in the common parts of the apartment buildings is also prohibited.

II- On the public highway, in the common parts of the apartment buildings, the dogs of the first and the second category must be muzzled and held leaves some by a major person. It is the same for the dogs for the second category in the public places, the buildings open to the public
and transport in commun runs.

III- A financial backer or a joint owner can seize the mayor in the event of dangerosity of a dog residing in one of the residences of which he is owner. The mayor can then carry out, if it considers it necessary, the application of measurements envisaged to article 211.

Art. 211-6.
 

I- The raising of the dogs to corrosive is not authorized that within the framework of the activities of canine selection framed by an association approved by the Minister for the agriculture and the
activities of monitoring, guarding and transport of funds.
Only the adjusters holding a certificate of competence can carry on the activity of raising of the dogs to corrosive and acquire objects, materials intended for this raising. It is the same for the persons in charge for the activities of canine selection mentioned with the preceding subparagraph. The certificate of competence is issued by the administrative authority with the candidates justifying of a professional capacity.
Acquisition, on a purely free or expensive basis, by nontitular people of the certificate of competence, objects or materials intended for raising with corrosive is prohibited. The certificate of competence must be presented at the salesman before any transfer. This one is then registered on a special register held by the salesman or yielding it and placed at the disposal of the authorities of police force and the administrations in charge of the application with this article when they ask it.

II- The fact of drawing up or of making draw up dogs with corrosive or of used, apart from the activities mentioned with the first subparagraph of I is punished six months of imprisonment and 7 500 euros fine and complementary sorrow of the confiscation of the dogs concerned. The fact, for an individual, to carry on an activity of raising to corrosive without being titular certificate of competence mentioned to I is punished six months of imprisonment and 7 500 euros fine and complementary sorrow of the confiscation of the dogs concerned as well as objects or materials which were used for raising.
The fact of selling or of yielding objects or material intended for raising to corrosive to a nontitular person of the certificate of competence mentioned to I is punished six months of imprisonment and 7 500 euros fine. The sorrow complementary of confiscation of the objects or the material proposed to the sale or the transfer is also incurred.

Art. 211-7.
  The provisions of articles 211-2 to 211-6 do not apply to the services and units of the national police force, the armies, the gendarmerie, the customs and the public services of help, users of dogs.

Art. 211-8.
  The procedure of the contractual fine appearing in articles 529 to 529-2 and 530 to 530-3 of the code of penal procedure is applicable in the event of infringment to the provisions of articles 211-3 and 211-5.

Art. 211-9.
  Decrees in Council of State determine the methods of application of articles 211-1 to 211-6.

Article 3
 

I - The stipulation is licit tending to prohibit the detention of a dog pertaining to the first category mentioned to article 211-1 of the rural code.

Article 4
  It is inserted, in the heading of title II of book II of the rural code, after the words: "of the domestic animals", words: "and savages tamed or held in captivities".

Article 5
  The mayors prescribe that the wild animals of species tamed or held in captivities, found wandering and who are seized on the territory of the commune, are led to a discharge point indicated by them. These animals are maintained there with the expenses of the owner or the guard. The owners, tenants, farmers or sharecroppers can seize or make seize by a member of the police force, in the properties of which they have the use, the animals of species wild tamed or held in captivities, escaped with their guard or that this one lets digress. The seized animals are led to a discharge point indicated by the mayor. They are maintained there, if necessary, with the expenses of the owner or the guard.
With the exit of a frank time of eight working days guard instead of indicated deposit, if the animal were not claimed by its owner near the mayor of the commune where the animal was seized, it then is regarded as given up and the mayor can yield it or, after opinion of a veterinary surgeon, do it euthanasier.

Article 6
  The mayors make all provisions suitable to prevent the divagation of the dogs and the cats. They can order that these animals are held leaves some and that the dogs are muzzled. They prescribe that the wandering dogs and cats and all those which would be seized on the territory of the commune are led to the fourrière, where they are kept during the time allowed at articles 213-4 and 213-5.
The owners, tenants, farmers or sharecroppers can seize or make seize by a member of the police force, in the properties of which they have the use, the dogs and the cats which their Masters let digress. The seized animals are led to the fourrière. A decree as a Council of State determines the methods of application of this article.
 
The field of application of the law

It is advisable to recall that the above mentioned provisions concern the owners and holders of the only dogs enumerated by the interministerial decree of 27 April 1999 published with the Official
Journal of April 30, 1999, namely :
Dogs of the first category, "Dog of Attack" :
" Pit-Bulls " :
• dogs assimilable by their morphological characteristics to the pedigree dogs Staffordshire Terrier, without being registered with a herd book recognized by the Minister for agriculture and fishinge (L.O.F.)
• dogs assimilable by their morphological characteristics to the pedigree dogs American Staffordshire Terrier, without being registered with a herd book recognized by the Minister for agriculture and fishing.

" Boerbulls " :
• dogs assimilable by their morphological characteristics to the pedigree dogs Mastiff, without being registered with a herd book recognized by the Minister for agriculture and fishing.

" Tosa " :
• dogs assimilable by their morphological characteristics to the pedigree dogs Tosa, without being registered with a herd book recognized by the Minister for agriculture and fishing.

Dogs of the second category, "defense and Watchdogs" :
• pedigree dogs American Stafforshire Terrier ;
• pedigree dogs Rottweiler ;
• pedigree dogs Tosa ;
• dogs assimilable by their morphological characteristics to the pedigree dogs Rottweiler, without being registered with a herd book recognized by the Minister for agriculture and fishing.
These types of dogs are described in the appendix joined the interministerial decree of April 27, 1999.