(a) Animals from the Los Angeles City Zoo shall be sold only in compliance with the requirements of Section 53.80 of the Municipal Code of the City of Los Angeles. Every contract providing for the sale of animals from the Zoo shall include, as a material condition thereof, a requirement that such animals are not to be used for any Inhumane Purpose, as that term is defined in Section 53.80 of said Municipal Code. The contract shall incorporate therein by reference a written statement of the purpose or purposes for which the animals are being purchased, the actual user or recipient of the animals, and a certification that the animals are not being purchased for any Inhumane Purpose. Such statement and certification shall be provided by the purchaser as part of the purchaser’s offer to purchase. In addition, the contract for sale of such animals shall require that the purchaser provided a written certification, by the stated actual user or recipient of such animals, that the animals have been received and that they will be used in accordance with the purposes stated in the corresponding offer to purchase.
(b) No sale of animals from the Los Angeles City Zoo shall be made to any animal dealer or broker before the Zoo Director has established and implemented a procedure whereby the use or delivery of the animals to be sold to any such animal dealer or broker, as represented in the dealer’s or broker’s written offer to purchase, can be verified with the stated actual user or recipient of such animals.
(c) The Director of the Los Angeles City Zoo shall create and maintain a list of animal breeders, brokers and dealers recognized by the Director as being legitimately engaged in those activities. No breeder, broker or dealer of animals shall be placed on, or allowed to remain on, said list who is found to have purchased, sold or used any animals for any Inhumane Purpose, as that term is defined in Section 53.80 of said Municipal Code, within the preceding five years.
(d) Each breeder, broker or dealer of animals found by the Zoo Director to have purchased, sold or used any animals for any Inhumane Purposes within the preceding five years shall be deemed to be a non-responsible party for purposes of doing business with the City Zoo, and no contract for the transportation of animals or for any other services shall be entered into with that party during the five year period of time subsequent to such purchase, sale or use.
SECTION HISTORY
Added by Ord. No. 165,764, Eff. 5-19-90.