(A) The Board of Public Works and Safety is authorized to enter into contracts with the Fort Wayne Animal Control Commission for the collection, transportation, sheltering, and disposal by the Fort Wayne animal control shelter of sick, deceased, injured, illegally at large, lost, strayed, or abandoned animals, and to investigate and prosecute any matter related to such animals.
(B) The power given to the Board of Public Works to enter into said contract shall specifically include the ability to agree to apply the provisions of any applicable rules, regulations, or ordinances in place by the City of Fort Wayne and Fort Wayne Animal Care and Control, and to the extent they conflict with New Haven, to agree that the provisions of the Fort Wayne ordinance and/or rules and regulations shall apply. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the ordinances in place by the City of Fort Wayne and Fort Wayne Animal Care and Control will control only with respect to the collection, transportation, sheltering, and disposal by Fort Wayne Animal Care and Control of sick, deceased, injured, illegally at large, lost, strayed, or abandoned animals, and to investigation and prosecution related to such services. This code shall control any land use issue related to the care and keeping of any animal related to any land use issue with respect to animals, including zoning, and nothing shall prohibit the city from enforcing its own ordinances independent of Fort Wayne and Animal Care and Control.
(Prior Code, § 90.02) (Ord. G-84-27, passed 12-11-1984; Ord. G-18-18, passed 11-14-2018)