Sentences with phrase «animal ordinances in»

LifeLine also employs animal control officers who are responsible for enforcing animal ordinances in the community.

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For instance, in a colorful case involving a city ordinance restricting the practice of animal sacrifice, the Court severely criticized officials for acting out of animosity towards the Santeria religion, which engages in the ritualistic slaughter of pigeons, goats, and turtles (among other animals) and at least sometimes leaves the carcasses along roadsides and in other public places.

After Hialeah, Florida, passed ordinances banning animal sacrifice (a common practice in Santeria), church members sued, arguing that the law was intended to specifically target them.

• A 24 - year - old Orland Park man was charged with violating a local animal - protection ordinance and his dog was temporarily seized for its protection on Jan. 7 after the animal was left outside on the 13500 block of Idlewild Drive in freezing temperatures for the second day in a row.

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The city shelter receives unwanted animals that are turned in by individuals from surrounding towns that are not covered under the ordinance, and Wilson would like to see Fort Sill Military Base mandate responsible pet care since many animals are abandoned when residents of the base move on.

Specifically, in 1987, the Ordinance stated: ««Owner» shall mean and include the owner of any dog, cat, animal or domestic animal as herein defined and also every other person having the care or custody of or harboring, keeping or maintaining any dog, cat, animal or domestic animal.»

Despite Tulsa's absence of a specific animal abuse Ordinance, the Tulsa Animal Welfare website is extremely helpful in understanding how to identify abuse and neglect and how to properly repoanimal abuse Ordinance, the Tulsa Animal Welfare website is extremely helpful in understanding how to identify abuse and neglect and how to properly repoAnimal Welfare website is extremely helpful in understanding how to identify abuse and neglect and how to properly report it.

Specifically, Tulsa Ordinance Title 7 Section 304 states that; It shall be unlawful for any person to turn any animal loose on any street or public place in the City of Tulsa.

No -LCB- government entity -RCB-, or any official thereof, may enact or enforce any ordinance or rule that requires any registration or licensing fee for any service animal as defined in this section that is used for the purpose of guiding or assisting a disabled person who has a sensory, mental, or physical impairment.

As pet professionals and pet businesses, you are uniquely positioned to educate lawmakers on how an ordinance or piece of legislation will impact animal welfare, business constituents and other taxpayers in your community.

Ordinance 4 - 101 is actually their «leash law,» and requires all animals to be restrained by their owners in the Corporate City Limits of Collinsville.

If you live in a city other than Tulsa, you should contact the city attorney, animal shelter or police department (or check to see if the local library has a copy of the city ordinances) and find out exactly how many pets you are allowed.

The Pet Quality Assurance Act, or the «puppy mill bill,» House Bill 1332, and House Bill 1045, a bill which would have allowed low - population counties to operate a shelter and pass animal control ordinances, would have combined to help the most voiceless of all companion animals in our state; dogs in unlicensed dog dealing facilities and unwanted animals facing abandonment due to the absence of shelters.

Conversely, the city of Lawton, with an average income below the state average and a poverty level above the state average, has had in - house spay / neuter for all animals for four years, was the first city in Oklahoma to ban the chaining of dogs and has the most stringent spay / neuter ordinance in our state, an ordinance that is rigorously enforced.

The 2008 decision to begin enforcement of the Tulsa pet sterilization ordinance has also resulted in a decrease in intakes, and an increase in adoption costs have not reduced the number of animals leaving the shelter to go to new homes.

KISSIMMEE - The Osceola County Commission unleashed its new animal ordinance this week.Under the pet law, dogs will have to be physically restrained in public and animal control officers are granted more power.

Dogs that attack or threaten people or other pets in Washington County, Maryland, would get 18 months to improve their behavior before being labeled «vicious and dangerous» under changes to the animal control ordinance proposed Tuesday.

«People who do... are in direct violation of the animal control ordinance...»

The Perry Ferrini Dog Park and the Schererville Park Department reserve the right to revoke park privileges to any member who fails to follow park rules and etiquette or where it is determined a member dog or dog owner is dangerous to others or in violation of any applicable animal ordinances or regulations.

In anticipation of an increase in abandoned animals that would likely occur as many pet owners would not or could not comply with the quarantine ordinance, the city doubled the number of double - deck indoor cages at the city pound by adding 32 double - deck concrete block cages under a tin shed roof to the west side of the pounIn anticipation of an increase in abandoned animals that would likely occur as many pet owners would not or could not comply with the quarantine ordinance, the city doubled the number of double - deck indoor cages at the city pound by adding 32 double - deck concrete block cages under a tin shed roof to the west side of the pounin abandoned animals that would likely occur as many pet owners would not or could not comply with the quarantine ordinance, the city doubled the number of double - deck indoor cages at the city pound by adding 32 double - deck concrete block cages under a tin shed roof to the west side of the pound.

The ordinance was aimed at reducing and eventually eliminating the thousands of euthanizations conducted in Los Angeles» animal shelters every year.

The ordinance did exempted certain animals, including those that have competed in shows or sporting competitions, guide dogs, animals used by police agencies, and those belonging to professional breeders.

In the spring of 1972, an unusually high number of rabies cases in wild animals in East Tennessee prompted the city of Morristown to pass an ordinance quarantining all dogs and cats for three monthIn the spring of 1972, an unusually high number of rabies cases in wild animals in East Tennessee prompted the city of Morristown to pass an ordinance quarantining all dogs and cats for three monthin wild animals in East Tennessee prompted the city of Morristown to pass an ordinance quarantining all dogs and cats for three monthin East Tennessee prompted the city of Morristown to pass an ordinance quarantining all dogs and cats for three months.

In late 2013, the Santa Cruz County Animal Shelter Board of Directors approved an ordinance that requires all dogs and cats over the age of four months to be implanted with a microchip, although exemptions are allowed, such as for medical reasons.

The ordinances prohibited the sale of commercially bred dogs, cats, and rabbits to make way for rescue animals in pet stores.

The draft left much of the city's existing ordinance in place but did address provisions regarding dangerous and vicious animals, which primarily applied to dogs.

The proposed ordinance also recognizes the wave of the future: implanting microchips in animals for identification purposes.

The ordinance stops the local sale of animals brought in from puppy mills or kitten factories.

«The ordinance not only contributes to the fight against animal cruelty it also recognizes the enormous cost of pet overpopulation in our society, both fiscal and humanitarian impacts.

PATTI DONEGAN»S letter focused on the problem of puppy mills, backyard breeders and dog brokers.Florida Statute 585.195 states each dog offered for sale shall be inoculated against canine disease prior to sale.Florida Statute 823.15 requires sterilization of dogs and cats released from an animal shelter or humane society.The problem in Orange County is the lack of enforcement of these laws, and the need to extend sterilization requirements to back - yard breeders.The public can become involved by encouraging the county commission and city councils to enforce the rules and regulations presently on the books, until a countywide ordinance can be made law that protects the needs of the consumer and the lives of the animals.

Lori Gastaldo, president of the local chapter of Pets Are Worth Saving, said the ordinance would hurt pets taken in by Osceola County Humane Society and Osceola County Animal Control.

The County's ordinance that restricted residents to three dogs and six cats per residence was rescinded in 2000, and now there is no county restriction on the number of animals per household.

Highland and Yucaipa adopted the same ordinance, according to Brian Cronin, chief of the county's animal control division, which handles animal control in those two cities.

Holler said the revised ordinance should bring a steady decrease in the number of animals impounded and euthanized, though she would not estimate the rate of decline.

CASSELBERRY — A stringent ordinance proposed by city animal control officials would give the city its first specific guidelines to control pet stores and would be among a handful of similar laws in the state.

In the late 1960s, Myers helped establish Orange County's first animal control ordinance.

Although there were nine dogs in the house, including a pregnant pit bull, the animals did not violate any city ordinance because six of them were puppies.

When the City of Woonsocket was debating a pit bull ordinance in June 2009, the animal control supervisor in Pawtucket, John Holmes, spoke about the enormous success of Pawtucket's 2003 pit bull ban:

In my hometown, the applicable Franklin County Kentucky Ordinances contains a long list of wild and exotic animals that are prohibited from being transported into the city or kept as pets.

KISSIMMEE — The county has added fines involving dangerous dogs to its animal - control ordinance because of problems in dealing with the animals.

Mayor Owen Sheppard said signs prohibiting animals in parks have been posted for years but the city has lacked a pertinent ordinance.Shook could not be reached for comment Wednesday, but her assistant, Jeanne Scholz said the vicious dog ordinance is the result of increased reports in Florida of attacks by pit bull terriers.

Local ordinances in most Florida counties allow animal control officers to seize dangerous dogs, but the laws carry only minimal punishments, said Don Westfall, manager of the Orange County Animal Control Deparanimal control officers to seize dangerous dogs, but the laws carry only minimal punishments, said Don Westfall, manager of the Orange County Animal Control DeparAnimal Control Department.

Pets soon may be banned from city parks while vicious dogs could be muzzled and impounded if they display aggressive behavior, according to two newly proposed laws from the city's Animal Control Department.Vickie Ann Shook, department director, requested adoption of the ordinances to give her officers better control over animals in the city.

In 2016, the Board of County Commissioners adopted Ordinance 55.035, to create an Animal Services Advisory Board.

Like their counterparts in big cities, dog owners in Lake County may have to start cleaning up after their pets with pooper scoopers.That was one of several changes to the county's animal control ordinance suggested during a public hearing Tuesday.The revamped proposal, which aims primarily to stop vicious animals before they bite or harm someone, will undergo more tinkering to include suggestions like cleaning up after dogs.Pooper scoopers will be needed if the county sticks with the idea to ban defecating by dogs on both public and private property other than that belonging to the animal's owner, County Commissioner Richard Swartz said.

He has been involved in Pinellas County animal welfare for over 30 years and was successful in advancing the approval of an anti-tethering and trap / neuter / vaccinate / return (TNVR) ordinance in Pinellas County.

Ordinances were already in place in two Ohio cities, requiring retailers like Petland to acquire their puppies from animal shelters, rescues, and humane societies.

A recent pit - bull attack on a 9 - year - old girl in Brevard County prompted county commisioners to re-evaluate their animal - control ordinance and penalties.

I guide grassroots organizations and advocates in passing local ordinances that protect companion animals, specifically in the issue areas of declawing, pit bull terriers, Trap - Neuter - Return (TNR), retail pet sale bans, and tethering.