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AMENDMENT TO THE ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS DECEMBER 1, 1987 MINUTES 7 . ANIMAL CONTROL ORDINANCE CHANGES Beverly Whitehead made the presentation. The Board of Health recommended four changes to the Animal Control Ordinance. These changes are listed below: ( 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 maintaining an establishment where animals of any species, excluding 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 ( 6) to nineteen ( 191 animals . (3) Change the designation of Commercial Kennels to Class II Kennels and define it as follows . Any person maintaining an establishment where animals of any species, excluding domesticated livestock, are 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 (201 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 . Several citizens spoke in opposition to the recommendation. George Maynard asked for another recommendation exempting sportsmen who keep dogs to hunt. He opposed having to apply for a Kennel' s License. Octavious Tate noted he owned fifteen dogs and cannot afford to pay $15 . 00 per animal. Willard Ward commented on the makeup of the committee that made the above recommendation. He made reference to a letter from Tony Laws which stated that exemptions may be allowed as long as it does not alter the intent of the Ordinance. Ward asked that hunting dogs be exempted from the Ordinance. Commissioner Halkiotis expressed concern that if the fee for registering dogs is too high that not all animals will be registered. He proposed a fee of $15 . 00 for each of the first three unneutered or unspayed animals in a household with the fee for each additional animal set at $5 . 00 with no limit. Commissioner Carey pointed out that the process used by ample Board pp t Health r citizen input.the The Board of H Health expressed ample opportunity