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Council adopts a breeder permit ordinance recommended by the advisory board, 5-0
An earlier breeder ordinance proposal had been dropped from draft animal ordinance changes by January 2020. In January and February 2021 the Animal Management & Welfare Advisory Board revised a new version (a $100 annual permit, limits tied to recent violations and surrenders) and voted 3-0 on February 10 to send it to the council. The council passed Ordinance No. 7914, adding a breeder permit requirement in Sec. 8-2-16, on first reading 5-0 on March 23, 2021; the public health board endorsed it April 8; and it passed on second reading on the April 13 consent agenda, 5-0. By late May the department reported no applications had been filed.[1][2][3][4][5][6]
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The January 27, 2021 minutes record the interim director proposing a breeders permit (a $50 application fee, no more than four dogs or cats per location) and the board recommending the yearly fee be raised to $100. The February 10, 2021 minutes list an "annual fee of $100.00," a rule that an applicant "shall not have received 3 violations from the department in previous 2 years" or surrendered a dog in the preceding two years, and removal of zoning requirements; the motion to present it to the council passed 3:0. The January 29, 2020 minutes say an earlier breeder's ordinance "was eventually removed from the proposed changes to City animal ordinances in last draft." [2][1][7]
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Ordinance No. 7914, amending Chapter 8-2 to add definitions of "adult dog or cat" and "breeder" and a Sec. 8-2-16 requiring a permit for breeding an adult dog or cat, passed first reading 5-0 on March 23, 2021 and second and final reading as consent item B on April 13, 2021, the consent agenda carrying 5-0. The Amarillo Area Public Health Board voted to adopt it on April 8, 2021, after the council's first reading. [3][4][5]
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The May 26, 2021 advisory board minutes report, under "Breeders Ordinance Update," that "No applications have been turned in." The same minutes report 56 free microchips implanted at Muttfest. [6]
