LIVERMORE – The Planning Board has scheduled a public hearing for early October on a proposed law that looks to protect residents from dangerous dogs.

If adopted, it would be more stringent than the state’s by requiring:

• $300,000 insurance liability to have a court-declared dangerous dog,

• secure enclosures and stipulated locations,

• and prohibits transfers of the dog.

The hearing will take place at 7 p.m., Oct. 2, at Brettuns Community Building.

The select board is expected to set a special town meeting for the ordinance to go before voters when it meets at 7 p.m. Monday, Sept. 24, at the town office.

The proposed ordinance was introduced by teenager Anna Sanborn of Livermore, who spent hours reviewing other town ordinances and working with experts this spring to develop it.

Sanborn came up with the idea after her family had dealt with several dog attacks on their farm animals, including one incident in which 11 goats were attacked and two died.

Once it was brought to the Planning Board for review, the select board’s administrative assistant, Kurt Schaub, worked with Sanborn to rework some areas of the draft to customize it to Livermore’s needs, and to ensure it does not impose unreasonable requirements on people whose animals have done nothing wrong.

An attorney, Amanda Meader, who reviewed the document for the Planning Board, said in an e-mail to Schaub that she found the draft, in general, to be in “great shape” and she applauded Schaub and Sanborn on coming up with such a “nice first draft.”

The proposed ordinance incorporates more of the state law, including new legislation on dangerous dogs that attack farm animals. It also adds the component requiring an owner of a court-declared dangerous dog to obtain $300,000 minimum liability insurance to cover bodily injury or death of any person or animal, or for property damages, resulting from the keeping of the dangerous dog.

The town’s existing dog ordinance is one page long and prohibits dogs from disturbing the peace, running at large, and defecating and urinating on other people’s properties.

The proposed ordinance defines a dangerous dog and outlines prohibited transfers, special restraint, the insurance provision, and enforcement and penalties.