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INFORMATION SERVICES Classification # 1= League of Minnesota Cities 183 University Avenue East .--- Ee p4 1 ��IG,� St. Paul, MN 55101 -2526 SEt . 1992 Subject 1 ORDINANCE NO. 906 Municipality 2\r., iP DECLARING CERTAIN CATS TO BE A NUISANCE AND PROVIDING A PENALTY p_l FOR PERSONS HARBORING NUISANCE CATS p OW W N F. R 9 0 6 3, NOTIrE idTual O Any individual WHEREAS, the City of Plainview ' from the actions of a has received complaints from its suffering citizens regardin. _ _ to nuisance cat shall submit a - constitute a • ance w e ty written complaint to the 9.11¢ .5.IMPOUNDMENT. limits, and J'-' Plainview City Pound Master. Upon taking up and impounding WHEREA the City believ - t is Information on the complaint any eat as provided in ¢ QM . 4, in the best in - , of its •:fr - W ' shall include a description of the the City Pound Master shall provide for regulation of nuisance cat, the date, tine, nature, and immediately post in three or cats and enforcement against those location of the committed act. more conspicuous places in the persons found to harbor nuisance the names and addresses of the City a notice of impounding in tits individual, owning, possessing, substantially the following form: NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT keeping, or harboring the cat (if NOTICE A OF IMPOUNDING ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF known), and the name and Date: 19_ PLAINVIEW, MINNESOTA, AS address of the person filing the TO WHOM. IT MAY FOLLOWS: complaint. Upon receipt of the CONCERN: 1. Plainview City Code is written complaint. the Plainview I a a have this da y taken up and mended to add a new Section City Pound Master shall then impounded the Pound n 906 u follows: - send a copy of the written the City at of 1. CERTAIN CATS QQ¢ • complaint form to the owner, DECLARED TO RE A keeper, possessor. or harborer of Street, a cat answering to the the nuisance cat and shall request following description: NUISANCE. Selo person shall ' that the cat be restricted from Sex: _own, possess, keep, or harbor further committing such acts - Color. any cat which destroys ' or deemed to be a nuisance. The Breed: damages property or which • notice shall further state and Approximate Age: creates an offense by way of advise the owner that if the cat Name of Owner. excessive noise, or scratches. continues such actions, the cat bites, molests, or attacks other may be trapped as described Notice is hereby given that ' animals or human beings, or below and the person may be unless said cat is claimed and while "in heat" is not confined convicted of a violation of this redeemed on or before in a building or secure enclosure. ordinance. The notice shall o'clock _ .m., on Such cats are declared to bee further provide the person with a the d ay of nuisance. -copy of this ordinance. y__ QQ¢.2.RESPONSTBn $ J'Y 2Q¢ .4. ENFORCEMENT, the same will be sold or OF OWNER. Any person who I Upon receiving • written killed as provided by owns, posses a es, keeps, or i complaint that a cat has been ordinance harbors a cat shall exercise committing actions which could__ sufficient and proper care and -constitute - a nuisance - under :,1 Pound Master control over such animal at all 'Section 906 .1 above, the Th date of sale or killing of the times so as to prevent the - [ _ Plainview City Pound Master ft animal from becoming a will provide an appropriate s the notice unless that nuisance. If the cat is declared a j cat shall be the 5th day after posting shall trapping device to trap the cat. date ga e le or a nuisance, it shall be no defense While in possession of the trap. dat fa sn on which - a Sunday n d it or that the offending cat escaped or the City Poundmaster will be be the following day. was otherwise at large without responsible for the maintaining the permission or sufferance of and setting of the trap. Upon the owner. Any such person who - entrapment of the nuisance cat, owns, possesses, keeps, or the Pound Master will remove harbors a cat declared to be a the nuisance cat for proper nuisance shall be in violation of disposition as described below. this ordinance and subject to the penalties as set forth in Section 906.9 below. I e f i 2—