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1 ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS Action Agenda Item No. V=r A ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: September 7, 1993 SUBJECT: Mr. Odell Coley: County ordinance Regarding the Keeping of Wild Animals DEPARTMENT: HEALTH PUBLIC HEARING: Yes X No ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: 1. An Ordinance Regulating the Keeping HEALTH DIRECTOR'S OFFICE X2411 of Wild Animals. (Under Separate Cover) 2. Chapel Hill Herald Article, 8/17/93 TELEPHONE NUMBER: (Under Separate cover) 3. Notice of Violation Hillsborough - 732-8181 4. Notice of Extension chapel Hill - 968-4501 5. Report of Planning and Inspections Mebane - 227-2031 Department Inquiry. Durham - 688-7331 PURPOSE: The Ordinance Regulating the Keeping of Wild Animals Dangerous to Persons and Property within orange county requires the orange County Health Department to report to the Board of county commissioners of orange county, whenever the department has cause to believe that any person is violating or threatening to violate this ordinance (page 8, paragraph 3a) . Following an anonymous complaint, the Orange county Animal Control Director, Elma Rae Greene, investigated the property of Odell Coley at 6500 Yarborough Road, and found a female "Himalayan" bear caged in violation of the ordinance. A notice of violation was issued to Odell Coley on August 4, 1993, and received by certified mail. BACKGROUND: The ordinance Regulating the Keeping of Wild Animals Dangerous to Persons and Property Within Orange County was adopted by the orange County Board of Commissioners on the fifth day of April, 1983. section 3 states: "It shall be unlawful for any person to possess and harbor in Orange County a wild animal as defined herein without first applying for and obtaining a permit from the Director." It further states that, "Permits shall be only issued for animals physically located in orange County and registered as of the date of this ordinance enactment."