Key legal question
Whether the statutory exemptions from dog tax under § 8 of the Dog Keeping Act are exhaustive and include security dogs.
Extracted holding
The exemption catalogue is exhaustive; security dogs are not exempt unless expressly listed.
Extracted reasoning
The legislative history showed that broader exemptions for protection, avalanche, rescue and guard dogs were expressly considered and rejected. Together with the precise wording of § 8, this excludes analogy to other dog categories.