{"topic_id":"banned_dog_breeds_us_ca_fac_31601","category":"banned-dog-breeds","context":"---\ntopic_id: banned_dog_breeds_us_ca_fac_31601\ncategory: banned-dog-breeds\ntitle: \"California — findings on potentially dangerous & vicious dogs (Food & Ag Code § 31601)\"\nlang: en\nsource: \"California Food & Agricultural Code § 31601 (Chapter 9, Potentially Dangerous and Vicious Dogs), leginfo.legislature.ca.gov, extracted 2026-07-24 via Tokyo relay (Playwright)\"\nsource_file: pdf-raw/banned-dog-breeds/ca_fac_31601_dangerous_dog.txt\ndate_parsed: 2026-07-24\ntokens_estimated: 347\nverification:\n  method: substring_match\n  claims: 5\n  passed: 5\n  date: 2026-07-24\nrecovered: false\npath: banned-dog-breeds/banned_dog_breeds_us_ca_fac_31601/01_banned_dog_breeds_us_ca_fac_31601.md\n---\n\n# California — findings on potentially dangerous & vicious dogs (Food & Ag Code § 31601)\n\nCalifornia's Food & Agricultural Code Chapter 9 (§§ 31601–31683) is the state statutory framework for potentially dangerous and vicious dogs. § 31601 states the Legislature's findings — that potentially dangerous and vicious dogs are a 'serious and widespread threat' and that their regulation is 'a statewide problem, requiring statewide regulation.' The framework is behavior-based: it defines 'potentially dangerous' and 'vicious' dogs by conduct, not breed.\n\nSource: California Food & Agricultural Code § 31601 (Chapter 9, Potentially Dangerous and Vicious Dogs), leginfo.legislature.ca.gov, extracted 2026-07-24 via Tokyo relay (Playwright). First-hand statute text; C1 substring-verified against `pdf-raw/banned-dog-breeds/ca_fac_31601_dangerous_dog.txt`.\n\nVerbatim C1 claims (each a substring of the source file):\n1. \"31601.\"\n2. \"CHAPTER 9. Potentially Dangerous and Vicious Dogs [31601 - 31683]\"\n3. \"The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:\"\n4. \"Potentially dangerous and vicious dogs have become a serious and widespread threat to the safety and welfare of citizens of this state.\"\n5. \"The necessity for the regulation and control of vicious and potentially dangerous dogs is a statewide problem, requiring statewide regulation, and existing laws are inadequate to deal with the threat to public health and safety posed by vicious and potentially dangerous dogs.\"\n","sources":[],"tokens_estimated":400,"generated_at":null,"tip":"Use /api/v1/topics to discover more topics. /api/v1/nutrient for precise single-point queries. /api/v1/cross_compare for 2-3 standard comparisons."}