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Council approves amendments to animal ordinance; revises ‘service animal’ and adds sanitary definition
Summary
On second consideration the council approved amendments to Chapter 6.04 (Animals) that add a sanitary-conditions definition and revise the city’s service-animal definition to align with ADA guidance, after staff and civil-rights review.
The Davenport City Council approved amendments to Chapter 6.04 of the municipal code on second consideration, adopting a new definition for “sanitary conditions” and revising the definition of “service animal” to mirror language consistent with the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Alderman Burkholder offered the amendment, which added the definition: “sanitary conditions means premise free from accumulated waste, offensive odors, overcrowding, insects, or rodents due to animal keeping or health or safety risk to humans and…
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