This page is a snapshot, cut 31 August 2026, of a topic that moves. Below is the shape of the movement, read from the towns' own meeting records, and the way to get a view of it that stays current.
Covers chicken regulation (Waterville) and animal control (Cumberland).Our definition of the class, 29 August 2026.
Snapshot taken 31 August 2026, based on 224 dated municipal records flagged as animal control regulation, spanning 138 municipalities across 33 states. The topic moves; a later cut supersedes this page.
What this page is for one topic at state or national scope, told as a story: how it arrived, the shape of its movement, a dated snapshot of a moving record, and the door to a view of it that stays current. If it does not, write to us; that is what changes the next edition.
The record starts in Maine, 10 March 2004. Since then 138 municipalities in 33 states have put the topic on a meeting record, at very different speeds: Maine, Vermont, Massachusetts hold 53% of the dated events between them.
The last 90 days put 12 meetings on the record, well down from 44 in the 90 days before. 1 more is already on posted agendas.
It runs through the rooms where budgets and ordinances are made: Planning Board, City Council and Town Council.
| Quarter | Meetings | Towns | States |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2025 to Nov 2025 | 20 | 18 | 10 |
| Dec 2025 to Feb 2026 | 40 | 30 | 15 |
| Mar 2026 to May 2026 | 45 | 32 | 14 |
| Jun 2026 to Aug 2026 (current) | 12 | 8 | 4 |
a rolling 90-day total, so the right-hand point is that same 90-day count. The busiest stretch was Mar 2026 to May 2026, with 45 meetings.
| State | Towns on the record | Meetings, 90 days | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maine | 37 | 8 ▼ -11.1% | 2026-08-24 |
| Massachusetts | 13 | 0 | 2026-05-20 |
| New Hampshire | 12 | 1 | 2026-07-01 |
| Vermont | 10 | 2 | 2026-06-29 |
| Utah | 6 | 0 | 2026-02-24 |
| Arizona | 6 | 0 | 2026-03-19 |
| New York | 5 | 0 | 2026-05-05 |
| Illinois | 5 | 0 | 2026-02-19 |
| Connecticut lighter read | 4 | 0 | 2026-06-01 |
| Idaho lighter read | 3 | 0 | 2026-02-09 |
| California lighter read | 3 | 0 | 2026-05-19 |
| New Jersey lighter read | 3 | 0 | 2026-04-07 |
| Pennsylvania lighter read | 3 | 0 | 2026-04-15 |
| Maryland lighter read | 2 | 0 | 2026-03-01 |
| Wyoming lighter read | 2 | 0 | 2026-02-20 |
And 18 more states on the record, in an account view.
24 August 2026 · Falmouth, Maine Town Council
the meeting packet, on the town's own site 2026.08.24 Town Council Meeting — Packet
4 August 2026 · Bangor, Maine
the agenda, on the town's own site Agenda — 2026-08-04
21 July 2026 · St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana
the minutes, on the town's own site Minutes — 2026-07-21
1 July 2026 · Keene, New Hampshire City Council
the document, on the town's own site 2026_07_02_City Council Agenda_optimized
And 558 more companies.
The documents naming each, and the threads they sit in, are the account view. If one of these is you, those are your projects on the record. Ask and we will show you every one, and the towns around them, as they move.
Everything above is frozen at 31 August 2026; the topic is not. 55 more events on this topic carry no usable date and are counted, never dated. The counts follow where we read most: a town or a state absent here was not read at depth, and absence is not evidence the topic is absent there. A lighter-read state is not a ceiling; where you care about a region, pointing the system there is the first thing an account changes. How coverage is built, and its known limits: municipalalpha.com/methodology.
We track this topic continuously; this page is one cut of it, taken 31 August 2026. An account turns the snapshot into a working view: every town and every document behind these counts, the thread on each matter as it develops, word of new meetings as they land on the record, your own states and topics side by side, and the data itself when you want it in a table. The towns above are the taste; what each is actually deciding, funding or stalling is the read an account carries.
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Scope
Across the country
Towns on the record
138
States on the record
33
Earliest
10 March 2004
Meetings, last 90 days
12 against 44 before
Snapshot cut
31 August 2026
A view that stays current