§ 90.002 PURPOSE AND OBJECTIVE.

   This chapter is established for the following purposes and objectives:

   (A)   Animal cruelty: to define and prohibit the abuse of animals;

   (B)   Rabies: to protect citizens and animals of the county from rabies transmitted by unconfined, uncontrolled, or unimmunized dogs or cats;

   (C)   Animals at large: to regulate, restrict, or prohibit the running at large of any domestic animals;

   (D)   Stray animals: to regulate, restrict, or prohibit the keeping of stray domestic animals;

   (E)   Animal nuisance: to regulate animals that may be a nuisance;

   (F)   Wild or exotic animals, poisonous reptiles, and dangerous animals: to regulate, restrict, or prohibit the harboring or keeping or ownership of wild or exotic animals, poisonous reptiles, and dangerous animals;

   (G)   Animal bites: to establish rules and procedures for dealing with animal bites;

   (H)   Impoundment of animals: to regulate the impoundment and confinement of animals;

   (I)   Redemption of impounded animals: to regulate and establish procedures and fees for redeeming impounded animals in the county’s animal shelter; and

   (J)   Destruction of animals: to regulate and establish procedures for destroying diseased, strayed, unwanted, or unclaimed animals.

(Ord. 2015-03, passed 7-7-2015)