Moura v. Randall

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• considering whether the defendant violated Montgomery County Code 5-26, which prohibited an owner from permitting a dog to “run at large”
• distinguishing Slack on the grounds that the dog bite occurred on the common grounds of a townhome community, which was “not the same as the property of a single[-]family residence, because of the right of access to the common grounds by other residents”
• “To be sure, the fact that Diesel was a Rottweiler is not sufficient to establish that he is vicious.”
• Montgomery County ordinance defined “at large” animal as one “off the premises of its owner and not either leashed or otherwise under the immediate control of the responsible person capable of physically restraining the animal”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).