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ORANGE COUNTY 97 BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS Action a ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Item No Meeting Date: DECEMBER 1, 1987 111111 SUBJECT: ANIMAL CONTROL ORDINANCE CHANGES DEPARTMENT: COUNTY MANAGER PUBLIC HEARING: Yes X No ATTACHMENT(S) : INFORMATION CONTACT: MANAGER'S NONE OFFICE,X501/BOARD OF HEALTH, 305 TELEPHONE NUMBER: Hillsborough - 732-8181 Chapel Hill - 968-4501 Mebane - 227-2031 Durham - 688-7331 PURPOSE: To consider changes to the Animal Control Ordinance as recom- mended by the Board of Health. BACKGROUND: The Board of Health was asked to review and make recommenda- tions on sections of the Animal Control Ordinance. They recommend the following: 1. No animals should be exempted from the Ordinance. 2. Change the designation of Non-Commercial Kennels to Class I Kennels and define it as follows. Any person maintain- ing an establishment where animals of any species, exclud- ing domesticated livestock, are kept for the purpose of showing, competition, hunting or sport, and which establishment is so constructed that animals cannot stray therefrom, and which maintains six to nineteen animals. 3. Change the designation of Commercial Kennels to Class II Kennels and define it as follows. Any person maintaining a n establishment where animals of any species excluding domesticated livestock, kept for the purpose of breeding, buying, selling, or boarding such animals or engaged in the training of dogs for guard or sentry purposes, and which establishment is so constructed that the animals cannot stray therefrom; or any person owning or keeping twenty or more animals , excluding domesticated livestock, each of which is four months of age or older. 4. Change Section XIX (Kennel Standards) #13 to read as follows: Provisions shall be made for the removal and disposal of animal and food waste, bedding and debris.