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Mount Vernon adopts changes to animal code: licensing replaced by rabies vaccination and microchipping requirement
Summary
City Attorney Kevin Rogerson introduced ordinances to repeal mandatory dog and cat licensing and instead require rabies vaccination and microchipping; council adopted ordinances 3925 and 3926 unanimously at the Nov. 12 meeting.
City Attorney Kevin Rogerson presented proposed changes to Mount Vernon’s animal control code on Nov. 12, asking the council to consider ordinances (packet labels 3925 and 3926) that would amend municipal code chapters to eliminate mandatory licensing for dogs and cats and require rabies vaccination and microchipping instead.
Rogerson said the police department’s animal-control staff recommended the…
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