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2020 Kentucky Revised Statutes
Chapter 212 - Local health programs
212.625 Animal shelter for animals.

Universal Citation: KY Rev Stat § 212.625 (2020)
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212.625 Animal shelter for animals. Each city-county board of health created by KRS 212.350 shall establish, maintain, and operate an animal shelter for animals in which, except as otherwise provided by law, shall be impounded all stray, vicious, or diseased animals taken up or collected in the county, whether in incorporated or unincorporated areas, by any public officer or authority or by any other person. Each board shall, throughout the county, including all municipalities within the county, enforce all statutes, ordinances of cities, orders or resolutions of the fiscal court of the county, and regulations of the board or any other governmental body or agency authorized to promulgate regulations, relating to the taking up, collection, and impounding of stray, vicious, or diseased animals. Each board may promulgate and enforce reasonable and necessary regulations providing for the collection and impounding of animals and governing the use and operation of animal shelters. Effective: July 13, 2004 History: Amended 2004 Ky. Acts ch. 189, sec. 26, effective July 13, 2004. -- Created 1954 Ky. Acts ch. 213, sec. 1, effective June 17, 1954.
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