2005 Connecticut Code - Sec. 22-332d. Impoundment and disposition of certain cats. Authority to spay or neuter unclaimed cat.
Sec. 22-332d. Impoundment and disposition of certain cats. Authority to spay
or neuter unclaimed cat. (a) Any animal control officer for a municipality which has
adopted an ordinance under subsection (b) of section 22-339d may take into custody
any cat found to be damaging property other than property of its owner or keeper or
causing an unsanitary, dangerous or unreasonably offensive condition unless such cat
can be identified as under the care of its owner or a registered keeper of feral cats. The
officer shall impound such cat at the pound serving the town where the cat is taken
unless, in the opinion of a licensed veterinarian, the cat is so injured or diseased that it
should be destroyed immediately, in which case the municipal animal control officer
of such town may cause the cat to be mercifully killed by a licensed veterinarian or
disposed of as the State Veterinarian may direct. The municipal animal control officer
shall immediately notify the owner or keeper of any cat so taken, if known, of its impoundment. If the owner or keeper of any such cat is unknown, the officer shall immediately tag or employ such other suitable means of identification of the cat as may be
approved by the Chief Animal Control Officer and shall promptly cause a description
of such cat to be published once in the lost and found column of a newspaper having a
circulation in such town.
(c) Any cat captured or impounded under the provisions of subsection (a) of this section shall be redeemed by the owner or keeper thereof, or the agent of such owner or keeper, upon proper identification, and presentation to the municipal animal control officer of a license, tag or other means of identification for such cat, and upon the payment by such owner or keeper or his agent of (1) the redemption fee established by the municipality, which shall not exceed fifteen dollars, and (2) the cost of advertising incurred under the provisions of subsection (a) of this section. When the owner or keeper of any such impounded cat fails to redeem such cat within twenty-four hours after receiving notification to do so, or, where the owner was unknown, within twenty-four hours after notification was effected by means of publication in a newspaper, such owner or keeper shall pay, in addition to such redemption fee and the cost of advertising, the amount determined by the municipality to be the full cost of detention and care of such impounded cat. In addition, any owner or keeper of any such impounded cat who fails to redeem such cat within one hundred twenty hours after receiving notification to do so shall have committed an infraction. The legislative body of the municipality shall set any fees imposed by the municipality under this section.
(P.A. 96-243, S. 2; P.A. 98-12, S. 10, 22; P.A. 03-137, S. 2.)
History: P.A. 98-12 changed "canine control officer" to "animal control officer" in Subsec. (a), effective July 1, 1998; P.A. 03-137 amended Subsec. (b) to add provisions re authority to neuter or spay and re civil liability therefor.
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