HomeMy WebLinkAbout1888ORDINANCE NO. 1888
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF PALM SPRINGS,
CALIFORNIA, ADDING SECTION 10.24.021 TO THE PALM
SPRINGS MUNICIPAL CODE, PROHIBITING THE RETAIL
SALE OF DOGS AND CATS WITHIN THE CITY OF PALM
SPRINGS, SUBJECT TO CERTAIN EXCEPTIONS.
City Attorney Summary
This Ordinance prohibits the sale of dogs and cats from retail
establishments within the City of Palm Springs, subject to certain
exceptions commencing on the date of its adoption.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PALM SPRINGS ORDAINS:
SECTION 1. Section 10.24.021 is added to the Palm Springs Municipal Code to
read:
10.24.021 Retail Sale of Dogs and Cats
(a) Definitions. For purposes of this Section, the following definitions shall apply:
1. "Animal shelter" means a municipal or related public animal shelter or duly
incorporated nonprofit organization devoted to the rescue, care, and adoption of stray,
abandoned, or surrendered animals, and which does not breed animals.
2. "Cat" means an animal of the Felidae family of the order Carnivora.
3. "Certificate of source" means a document declaring the source of the dog
or cat sold or transferred by the pet store. The certificate shall include the name and
address of the source of the dog or cat.
4. "Dog" means an animal of the Canidae family of the order Carnivora.
5. "Pet store" means a retail establishment open to the public and engaging
in the business of offering for sale and/or selling animals at retail.
6. "Pet store operator' means a person who owns or operates a pet store, or
both.
7. "Retail sale" includes display, offer for sale, offer for adoption, barter,
auction, give away, or other transfer any cat or dog.
(b) Prohibition. No pet store shall display, sell, deliver, offer for sale, barter, auction,
give away, or otherwise transfer or dispose of dogs or cats in the City of Palm Springs.
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(c) Exemptions. This Section does not apply to:
1. A person or establishment that sells, delivers, offers for sale, barters,
auctions, gives away, or otherwise transfers or disposes of only animals that were bred
and reared on the premises of the person or establishment;
2. A publicly operated animal control facility or animal shelter;
3. A private, charitable, nonprofit humane society or animal rescue
organization; or
4. A publicly operated animal control agency, nonprofit humane society, or
nonprofit animal rescue organization that operates out of or in connection with a pet
store.
(d) Adoption of Shelter and Rescue Animals. Nothing in this Section shall prevent a
pet store or its owner, operator, or employees from providing space and appropriate
care for animals owned by a publicly operated animal control agency, nonprofit humane
society, or nonprofit animal rescue agency and maintained at the pet store for the
purpose of adopting those animals to the public.
SECTION 2. CEQA. The City Council finds that it can be seen with certainty that
there is no possibility the adoption of this Ordinance will have a significant effect on the
environment because this Ordinance only regulates certain sales of animals within the
City. This Ordinance is therefore exempt from environmental review requirements of
the California Environmental Quality Act pursuant to Section 15061(b)(3) of Title 14 of
the California Code of Regulations.
SECTION 3. Upon the effective date of this Ordinance, Urgency Ordinance No.
1887 is repealed and no longer in effect.
SECTION 4. The Mayor shall sign and the City Clerk shall certify to the passage
and adoption of this Ordinance and shall cause the same, or the summary thereof, to be
published and posted pursuant to the provisions of law and this Ordinance shall take
effect (3) days after passage.
PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED BY THE PALM SPRINGS CITY
COUNCIL THIS 7th DAY OF OCTOBER, 2015.
ATTEST:
MES THOMPSON, CITY CLERK
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STEPHEN P. POUGNET, MAYOR
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CERTIFICATION
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF RIVERSIDE ) ss.
CITY OF PALM SPRINGS)
I, JAMES THOMPSON, City Clerk of the City of Palm Springs, hereby certify that
Ordinance No. 1888 is a full, true and correct copy, and was introduced at a regular
meeting of the Palm Springs City Council on the 16T" day of September, 2015, and
adopted at a regular meeting of the City Council held on the 7th day of October, 2015,
by the following vote:
AYES: Councilmember Foat, Councilmember Mills, Mayor Pro Tern Lewin, and
Mayor Pougnet.
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Councilmember Hutcheson.
ABSTAIN: None.
MES THOMPSON, CITY CLERK
City of Palm Springs, California
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