As used in this chapter:
ANIMAL: A cat or dog.
ANIMAL SHELTER: A facility operated by the City, a private humane society or private animal welfare organization, providing services for stray, lost, or unwanted animals, including holding and placing the animals for adoption, but does not include an institution conducting research on animals as defined in Utah Code Annotated section 26-26-1.
PERSON: An individual, an entity, or a representative of an entity.
PROOF OF STERILIZATION: A written document signed by a licensed veterinarian stating:
A. A specified animal has been sterilized;
B. The date on which the sterilization was performed; and
C. The location where the sterilization was performed.
RECIPIENT: The person to whom an animal shelter transfers an animal for adoption or redemption after impoundment.
STERILIZATION DEPOSIT: The portion of a fee charged by an animal shelter to a recipient for the mandatory sterilization of an adopted animal or claimant of an unsterilized, impounded animal to ensure the animal is timely sterilized.
STERILIZED: That an animal has been surgically altered, either by the spaying of a female animal or by the neutering of a male animal, so it is unable to reproduce.
TRANSFER: That an animal shelter places for adoption, or releases after impoundment, an animal to a recipient. (Ord. 17-15)