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Las Cruces council amends animal-control fee schedule, removes duplicate cat-colony charge
Summary
The council unanimously approved amendments to the city's animal-control fee schedule, striking an "enclosed feral/community cat colony" fee, shifting intact‑animal fees to a per‑animal basis and changing the litter fee to per litter; staff said collected fees will go to the general fund.
Las Cruces City Council on Nov. 17 amended the fee schedule tied to a municipal animal-control ordinance, eliminating what councilors and members of the public called duplicate charges and aligning some fees more closely with Do————a Ana County practices.
City staff introduced the revised Exhibit A to the city's animal-control ordinance and proposed two clarifying edits: replacing confusing wording about a $20 one-time processing fee so it reads as a single one-time fee for a site's first permit, and inserting the…
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