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People moving to Omaha with a dog that another city deemed “dangerous” should note a quiet tweak to a city ordinance.

The Omaha City Council, in a 7-0 vote without discussion, on Tuesday broadened the city’s dangerous dog ordinance to prohibit any dog deemed “dangerous” in another jurisdiction from registering and living in Omaha.

The new ordinance, like the one it’s replacing, outlaws registering animals authorities elsewhere have determined are “dangerous, potentially dangerous, vicious, a nuisance, or a threat to the health or safety of human beings.”

But the council closed a legal loophole that, before the change, recognized danger designations only from cities that labeled the dogs using a judicial process — a court proceeding — as Omaha does.

Many cities use an administrative process to decide whether individual dogs are a nuisance or threat to human health, animal control officials said. The process takes place outside of the court system.

Nebraska Humane Society officials sought the change, worried that the owner of a dog that mauled someone might move to Omaha and register. No event spurred the push, said Pam Wiese, a Humane Society spokeswoman.