AN ACT relating to dogs and the protection of live stock and poultry from damage by dogs; providing for the licensing of dogs; regulating the keeping of dogs, and authorizing their destruction in certain cases; providing for the determination and payment of damages done by dogs to live stock and poultry; imposing powers and duties on certain state, county, city and township officers and employes, and to repeal Act No. 347 of the Public Acts of 1917, and providing penalties for the violation of this act.

Dog licenses are sold in accordance with the provisions of the Dog Law of 1919 as amended. State law requires that 'on or before March 1 of each year, the owner of a dog shall apply for a dog license for each dog owned or kept.' Licenses are sold in Washtenaw County on a year-round basis with the expiration of the license on the last day of the year.