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Council adopts animal-code updates but strikes breeders and multi-pet permit changes; approves sterilization incentive
Summary
Council adopted revisions to Chapter 4 on first reading but voted unanimously to remove the proposed breeder-permit and multi-pet permit changes, keeping standardized language, an impound-fee waiver that incentivizes spay/neuter, and updates to inhumane-treatment language; staff and council debated inspections and enforcement.
The City Council on Nov. 11 debated and ultimately adopted revisions to portions of Chapter 4 (animals) while removing two proposed components: a new breeders-permit requirement and broader changes to multi-pet permitting.
Staff described item 7.4 as a package that would add a breeders permit (proposed $100 fee, two-year permit), standardize multi-pet language and create an impound-fee waiver when owners sterilize an impounded intact animal within 30 days. Staff also proposed revising inhumane-treatment language to require a…
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