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Santa Fe council waives rules to advance animal-abandonment bill; public caption to include sponsor
Summary
Council voted to waive procedural rules so the animal-abandonment bill (2025-22) can be published before committee recommendation, allowing the departing sponsor's name to remain on the bill and enabling a public hearing in December. The caption proposed increases to fines and new unattended-animal prohibitions.
The City of Santa Fe's governing body voted to waive its procedural rules to allow publication of a proposed ordinance amending city animal-control sections, enabling the bill to be publicly noticed and considered before a committee recommendation if two-thirds of the council supported the waiver.
Clerk-read caption language (item 7a) proposed multiple changes to Santa Fe City Code (SFCC 1987): define ‘‘abandonment' and ‘‘unattended animal'; prohibit keeping…
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