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Salt Lake City will keep horse carriages but may revise rules
Hold your horses. The Salt Lake City Council will not ban carriages downtown.
But whether it will change the way horse-drawn carriages are regulated is as clear as mud.
The conundrum surrounding the Aug. 17 collapse of Jerry the horse on a downtown street and his ultimate death took the council on a dizzying 90-minute discussion Tuesday afternoon that seemed to consider everything but hay and horseshoes.
In the end, the council voted to ask Mayor Ralph Becker and Salt Lake County Animal Services – which contracts with the city to regulate all animal-related issues – to help craft an ordinance for regulating horse-drawn carriages.
full: http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/politics/56916018-90/animal-carriages-council-county.html.csp
