EXPLANATION: CAPITALS indicate matter added to existing law.
[Brackets] indicate matter deleted from existing law.
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THE OFFICIAL COPY CONSIDERED BY THE CITY COUNCIL IS THE FIRST READER COPY.
INTRODUCTORY*
CITY OF BALTIMORE
COUNCIL BILL
Introduced by: The Council President
At the request of: The Administration (Health Department)
A BILL ENTITLED
AN ORDINANCE concerning
Title
Animal Control and Protection - Feral Cats
FOR the purpose of enabling the Health Commissioner to approve of programs to trap, alter, vaccinate, ear tip, and return feral cats; enabling the Health Commissioner to regulate the circumstances and procedures under which feral cats are seized, impounded, and reclaimed; modifying the presumption that unlicensed feral cats are unvaccinated for rabies; providing that feral cat caregivers who act in accordance with an approved program to trap, alter, vaccinate, ear tip, and return feral cats are not deemed to have abandoned the cats; defining and redefining certain terms; and generally relating the regulation of feral cats.
Body
BY adding
Article - Health
Section(s) 10-101(f-1), (i-1), (i-2), and (l-1)
Baltimore City Revised Code
(Edition 2000)
BY repealing and reordaining, with amendments
Article - Health
Section(s) 10-101(k) and (l), 10-104, 10-301(c),
10-308(a), (b), and (c), and 10-402
Baltimore City Revised Code
(Edition 2000)
SECTION 1. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF BALTIMORE, That the Laws of Baltimore City read as follows:
Baltimore City Revised Code
Article - Health
Title 10. Animal Control and Protection
ยง 10-101. Definitions.
(F-1) CAT.
"CAT" MEANS A ...
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