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Resident asks council to clarify animal-control arrangements after humane-society contract ended
Summary
During public comment Celeste Robbins urged the council to explain which agency is enforcing animal-control laws and where impounded animals are held, citing Iowa Code 351.36–351.43 and asking whether the city has executed any new shelter contract and whether healthy animals might be euthanized under current arrangements.
At the start of the business-meeting public comment period, resident Celeste Robbins urged the Clinton City Council to clarify how the city is meeting its obligations to enforce animal-control laws now that the city is no longer working with the local humane society.
Robbins cited "Iowa Code 351.36 through 351.43" and said the statute requires local law enforcement to enforce neglect, abuse, vaccination and at-large laws and the city to have a…
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