Sec. 22-339d. Municipal control of feral cats.
Sec. 22-339d. Municipal control of feral cats. (a) A municipality may adopt an
ordinance requiring the registration, within one year of the adoption of such ordinance,
of keepers of feral cats in residential or commercial areas. Such ordinance shall require
that any such keeper shall register with the animal control officer for such municipality
who shall provide information to the registrant regarding the proper care and management of feral cats. For purposes of this section, "feral cat" means a free-roaming domestic
cat which is not owned and "keeper" means any person or organization, harboring,
regularly feeding or having in his or its possession any feral cat. Refusal to permit any
animal control officer to impound a feral cat shall be deemed evidence of keeping. Such
ordinance shall require that such keepers shall provide for the vaccination of such cats
against rabies and the sterilization of such cats. Such keeper shall be considered an
eligible owner for purposes of the animal population control program established under
sections 22-380e to 22-380m, inclusive, provided such cats are adopted from a municipal
pound.
(b) A municipality may adopt an ordinance providing that no person owning or
keeping any cat shall permit such animal to (1) substantially damage property other than
the property of the owner or keeper or (2) cause an unsanitary, dangerous or unreasonably
offensive condition. Violation of such provision shall be an infraction.
(P.A. 96-243, S. 1.)