Cherokee County to consider shortening hold time for impounded livestock, raising owner-surrender fees

At a Cherokee County Board of Commissioners meeting, staff presented requests to schedule public hearings on proposed changes to county animal-control rules: an amendment to the Cherokee County Code that would reduce the time impounded livestock must be held, and a resolution to raise owner-surrender fees at the county animal shelter.

The amendment under review would amend Chapter 10, Article 2 (Livestock) to reduce the holding period for impounded livestock from 21 days to five days. Staff said that after the shortened holding period, animals not claimed by their owners "may be given to a person or persons willing to accept them at the direction of the marshal's office." The county manager's portion of the agenda also described a resolution to raise the animal-shelter owner-surrender…