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Schererville board adopts consolidated animal-control ordinances, raises adoption fees and fines
Summary
The Schererville Town Board unanimously approved Resolution 2025-2, consolidating animal-control licensing, adoption and humane-treatment ordinances, increasing certain licensing and adoption fees and raising maximum fines for inhumane treatment with proceeds directed to a pet adoption fund.
The Schererville Town Board unanimously approved Resolution 2025-2 on a package of animal-control measures that the town attorney and department staff said align local rules with day-to-day operations and route enforcement to the appropriate court.
Board members heard a presentation describing three related ordinances—Exhibit A (licensing), Exhibit B (adoption) and Exhibit C (humane treatment)—that, according to staff, repeal prior animal-control ordinances for simplicity and update fee and enforcement structures. The package…
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