APPROVED BY: William D. Denny, Acting <strong>City</strong> Manager ATTACHMENTS: • Ordinance No. 20-<strong>2013</strong> 91 Item 8C
Attachment number 1 \nPage 1 ORDINANCE NO. 20- 2012 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF DELTONA, FLORIDA, REVISING SECTION 14-2 AND 14-3 REGARDING PUBLIC NUISANCE ANIMALS AND PROHIBITED ANIMALS; ADDING ARTICLE VII, “RESPONSIBLE PET OWNERSHIP AND LICENSING STANDARDS,” TO CHAPTER 14, “ANIMALS,” OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF DELTONA; PROVIDING EXCEPTIONS, PROVIDING FOR CONFLICTS, CODIFICATION, SEVERABILITY AND FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE. ____________________________________________________________ WHEREAS, The <strong>City</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Deltona</strong> has determined that the unintended or uncontrolled breeding <strong>of</strong> dogs and cats within the city leads to many dogs, cats, puppies, and kittens being unwanted, becoming strays, suffering privation and death, being impounded and euthanized at great expense to the community, and constituting a public nuisance and public health hazard; and WHEREAS, The <strong>City</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Deltona</strong> declares that every feasible means <strong>of</strong> reducing the number <strong>of</strong> unwanted dogs, cats, puppies, and kittens be encouraged; and WHEREAS, the <strong>City</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Deltona</strong> has spent approximately $130,000 this year to impound (resulting in euthanasia) stray animals including feral cats; and WHEREAS, <strong>City</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Deltona</strong> Code Enforcement <strong>of</strong>ficers spend approximately 1200 hours a year primarily dealing with feral cats which results in the euthanasia <strong>of</strong> approximately 939 feral cats from <strong>Deltona</strong> in 2011; and WHEREAS, the time <strong>of</strong> the <strong>City</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Deltona</strong> Code Enforcement <strong>of</strong>ficers would be better spent otherwise enforcing the codes <strong>of</strong> the <strong>City</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Deltona</strong>; and WHEREAS, the <strong>City</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Deltona</strong> has provided <strong>Deltona</strong> residents with low cost spay and neuter alternatives through Halifax Humane Society; and WHEREAS, it is the intent <strong>of</strong> this ordinance to ultimately greatly reduce the number <strong>of</strong> unwanted dogs and cats in <strong>Deltona</strong> by spaying and neutering dogs, cats and feral cats, and to reduce expenditures by the <strong>City</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Deltona</strong> through the implementation <strong>of</strong> this ordinance. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF DELTONA, FLORIDA: 92 Item 8C