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ORDINANCE NO 'O�
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF DENTON, TEXAS AMENDING ARTICLE I OF
CHAPTER 6 OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES RELATING TO "ANIMALS" BY ADDING
SECTION 6-37 TO PROVIDE FOR THE TRANSFER OF IMPOUNDED ANIMALS TO
HUMANE SOCIETIES OR OTHER SIMILAR AGENCIES, PROVIDING A SEVERABILITY
CLAUSE, PROVIDING A SAVINGS CLAUSE, AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE
WHEREAS, the Legislature has enacted legislation, codified as the Texas Health and
Safety Code, Chapter 828, which sets out requirements for immunization and sterilization of
dogs and cats adopted from releasing agencies, and
WHEREAS, Chapter 828 of the Texas Health and Safety Code provides that releasing
agencies may be public or private animal pound, shelter, or humane organization, and
WHEREAS, it would be in the interest of the City of Denton to allow transfer of the
custody of impounded animals to animal shelters or humane organizations to be the releasing
agency responsible for complying with Chapter 828 of the Texas Health and Safety Code, and
WHEREAS, the transfer would be made without any fee because the animal shelter or
humane organization would be the releasing agency responsible for complying with animal
adoption laws, NOW, THEREFORE,
THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF DENTON HEREBY ORDAINS
SECTION I That Chapter 6 of the Code of Ordinances titled "Animals" is hereby
amended by adding Section 6-37 which shall read as follows
6-37 Transfer of Animals to other Releasing Agencies
The custody of dogs and cats eligible to be placed for adoption under Section 6-33
may be transferred without fee to animal shelters or humane organizations so that
these organizations may act as releasing agencies and place the animals for
adoption pursuant to Chapter 828 of the Texas Health and Safety Code Before
any animals will be transferred to other releasing agencies, these agencies must
meet any administrative requirements established by the City of Denton Animal
Control Department All responsibilities required of releasing agencies under
Chapter 828 for the adoption, immunization and sterilization of impounded
animals shall be solely the responsibility of the animal shelters or humane
organizations and the City of Denton shall retain none of these responsibilities
upon transfer The transfer of the animals eligible for adoption to alternate
releasing agencies shall be made without any fee
SECTION II If any section, subsection, paragraph, sentence, phrase or word in this
ordinance, or application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid by any court of
competent jurisdiction, such holding shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this
ordinance, and City Council of the City of Denton, Texas hereby declares it would have enacted
such remaining portions despite any such invalidity
SECTION III. That the repeal of any ordinance or any portion thereof by the preceding
sections shall not affect or impair any act done or right vested or accrued or any proceeding, suit
or prosecution had or commenced in any cause before such repeal shall take effect, but every
such act done, or right vested or accrued, or proceedings, suit or prosecution had or commenced
shall remain in full force and effect to all intents or purposes as if such ordinance or part thereof
so repealed shall remain in force
SECTION IV That save and except as amended hereby all the remaining sections,
subsections, sentences, phrases and clauses of Chapter 26 of the City Code shall remain in full
force and effect
SECTION V That this ordinance shall become effective fourteen (14) days from the
date of this passage, and the City Secretary is hereby directed to cause the caption of this
ordinance to be published twice in the Denton Record Chronicle, the official newspaper of the
City of Denton, Texas, within ten (10) days of its passage
PASSED AND APPROVED this the /54day of , 1999
JAC ER, O.
ATTEST'
JENNIFER WALTERS, CITY SECRETARY
APPROVED AS TO LEGAL FORM
HERBERT L PROUTY, CITY ATTORNEY
BY
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