Baltimore City Council
File #: 12-0106    Version: 0 Name: Animal Control and Protection - Companion Animal Protection
Type: Ordinance Status: Withdrawn
File created: 6/25/2012 In control: City Council
On agenda: Final action: 1/28/2013
Enactment #:
Title: Animal Control and Protection - Companion Animal Protection FOR the purpose of requiring animal shelters to take steps to reduce the number of animals they kill; repealing the requirement that cats be licensed; prohibiting the immediate killing of animals when their owner’s license is revoked; regulating the use of live animal traps to catch cats; establishing standards for the operations of animal shelters; establishing standards for the killing of animals in shelters; prohibiting the use of animals from shelters for medical research; requiring that certain information about shelter operations be made available to the public; defining and redefining certain terms; clarifying and conforming related provisions; providing for certain penalties; and generally relating to the treatment of animals commonly kept as companions.
Sponsors: James B. Kraft, Brandon M. Scott, Edward Reisinger, Warren Branch, Mary Pat Clarke, William "Pete" Welch
Indexes: Animal Control, Companion Animal Protection
Attachments: 1. 12-0106 - 1st Reader.pdf, 2. Planning - 12-0106.pdf, 3. Anti-Animal Abuse Adv Comm 12-0106.pdf, 4. Health - 12-0106.pdf, 5. ECB - 12-0106.pdf, 6. Finance - 12-0106.pdf
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: Councilmember Kraft

A BILL ENTITLED

AN ORDINANCE concerning
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Animal Control and Protection - Companion Animal Protection

FOR the purpose of requiring animal shelters to take steps to reduce the number of animals they kill; repealing the requirement that cats be licensed; prohibiting the immediate killing of animals when their owner’s license is revoked; regulating the use of live animal traps to catch cats; establishing standards for the operations of animal shelters; establishing standards for the killing of animals in shelters; prohibiting the use of animals from shelters for medical research; requiring that certain information about shelter operations be made available to the public; defining and redefining certain terms; clarifying and conforming related provisions; providing for certain penalties; and generally relating to the treatment of animals commonly kept as companions.
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BY repealing and reordaining, with amendments
Article - Health
Section(s) 10-101(h), (m), (s), and (t), 10-201 through 10-205,
10-207, 10-219, 10-223, and 10-302
Baltimore City Revised Code
(Edition 2000)

BY adding
Article - Health
Section(s) 10-101(w-1), (cc-1), (cc-2), and (cc-3), and 10-315
Baltimore City Revised Code
(Edition 2000)

BY repealing
Article - Health
Section(s) 10-801 through 10-808, and the subtitle desi...

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