PASCO
COUNTY, FLORIDA
INTER-OFFICE
MEMORANDUM
_________________________________________________________________________________________
TO: Honorable Chairman
and
DATE:
1/02/02
FILE: CS02-035
Members of the Board
of
County Commissioners
THRU: Daniel R.
Johnson
SUBJECT: Amendment to Animal Control Ordinance
to
Assistant County
Administrator
Clarify Criteria Necessary for Abandoned
for Public Services Animals, Establish Holding Time,
Eliminate the need to Hold Individual
Custody
Hearings for Animals not Claimed and
Confinement
Requirements for Female Dogs in Heat, Final
Public
Hearing: 1/08/02 - 9:30 a.m., NPR
FROM: Adelaida D.
Reyes REFERENCES: Introduction: 12/04/01- 6:30 p.m.,
NPR
Community Services Director
____________________________________________________________________________________________
It is recommended that the data herein presented be given formal consideration by the Board of County Commissioners.
DESCRIPTION AND CONDITIONS:
Please find before you for the final public hearing the proposed Amendment to the Animal Control Ordinance. This ordinance was presented and introduced on December 4, 2001. There were no recommended changes. As the Board has previously been advised, the ordinance would, among other things, clarify the criteria necessary to deem an animal abandoned, establish a manageable holding time for animals taken into custody under those circumstances, with ten (10) days recommended as the holding period, and eliminate the need to hold individual custody hearings for animals not claimed. The Amendment also included specific confinement requirements to be enacted for female dogs while in heat to prevent unintentional breeding.
ALTERNATIVES AND ANALYSIS:
The Board of County Commissioners may adopt the proposed Animal Control Ordinance as attached.
2. The Board of County Commissioners may adopt revisions to the proposed Animal Control Ordinance.
3. The Board of County
Commissioners may direct staff to proceed with other alternatives, including
leaving
the Pasco County Code, Chapter 14, as it presently stands.
RECOMMENDATIONS AND FUNDING:
The Community Services Department/Animal Control Division recommends that the Board adopt the Amendment to the Animal Control Ordinance, authorize the Chairman’s signature, direct Board Records to file a certified copy of the ordinance and accompanying coding form with the Department of State within ten (10) days after enactment, retain the ordinal ordinance, and send one (1) certified copy of the ordinance to the following: County Attorney’s Office, New Port Richey, Community Services Department, Port Richey, and Animal Control, Land O’Lakes.
No funding is required for this Board action.
ATTACHMENTS:
ADR/nk
APPROVED AGENDA ITEM FOR
DATE________________________
BY___________________________