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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, winch sets out requirements for lmmumzatlon and stenhzatlon 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 pubhe or private ammal pound, shelter, or humane orgamzat~on, and
WHEREAS, xt would be m the interest of the City of Denton to allow transfer of the
custody of impotmded anxmals to animal shelters or humane organizations to be the releasing
agency responmble 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 orgamzatlon would be the releasing agency responsible for complying wxth animal
adoptmn laws, NOW, THEREFORE,
THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF DENTON HEREBY ORDAINS
~ That Chapter 6 of the Code of Ordinances titled "Ammals" ~s hereby
amended by adding Section 6-37 which shall read as follows
6-37 Transfer of Antmais to other Releastng Agenctes
The custody of dogs and eats ehg~ble to be placed for adoption under Section 6-33
may be transferred without fee to animal shelters or humane organ~zatmns so that
these organizations may act as releasing agencms and place the animals for
adoption pursuant to Chapter 828 of the Texas Health and Safety Code Before
any ammals will be transferred to other releasing agencies, these agencies must
meet any adm~mstrat~ve requirements estabhshed by the C~ty of Denton Ammal
Control Department All responminhtles reqmred of releasing agencms under
Chapter 828 for the adoption, lmmumzatlon and stenhzat~on of impounded
animals shall be solely the raspons~blhty of the ammal shelters or humane
organizations and the City of Denton shall retain none of these responminhtles
upon transfer The transfer of the animals ehg~ble for adoption to alternate
releasing agencies shall be made without any fee
SECTION II If any sectmn, subsection, paragraph, sentence, phrase or word m tins
ordinance, or apphcat~on thereof to any person or circumstance ~s held mvahd by any court of
competent junsdmtlon, such holding shall not affect the vahdlty of the remmmng porhons of tins
ordinance, and C~ty Councd of the C~ty of Denton, Texas hereby declares ~t would have enacted
such remaimng portions despite any such ~nvalld~ty
~ That the repeal of any ordmance or any port~on thereof by the preceding
sections shall not affect or ~mpmr any act done or right vested or accrued or any proceeding, stat
or prosecution had or commenced m any cause before such repeal shall take effect, but every
such act done, or right vested or accrued, or proceedings, stat or prosecution had or commenced
shall remain in full fome and effect to all intents or purposes as ff such ordinance or part thereof
so repealed shall remmn ~n fome
~ That save and except as amended hereby all the remmmng sections,
subsections, sentences, phrases and clauses of Chapter 26 of the City Code shall remmn ~n full
rome and effect
SECTION V That this orchnance shall become effective fourteen (14) days from the
date of th~s passage, and the City Secretary is hereby d~rected to cause the caption of this
ordinance to be pubhshed twice ~n the Denton Record Chromcle, the officml newspaper of the
City of Denton, Texas, w~thm ten (10) days of its passage
PASSED AND APPROVED thls the /t--~dayof ~'~4~/ ,1999
JAC~L/LER, MAYOR
ATTEST'
JENNIFER WALTERS, CITY SECRETARY
APPROVED AS TO LEGAL FORM
HERBERT L PROUTY, CITY ATTORNEY