| 28 | | - | Section 1. Section 22-327 of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective from passage): |
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| 30 | | - | As used in this chapter: |
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| 32 | | - | (1) "Animal" means any brute creature, including, but not limited to, dogs, cats, monkeys, guinea pigs, hamsters, rabbits, birds and reptiles; |
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| 34 | | - | (2) "Chief Animal Control Officer", "Assistant Chief Animal Control Officer" and "animal control officer" mean, respectively, the Chief State Animal Control Officer, the Assistant Chief State Animal Control Officer and a state animal control officer appointed under section 22-328; |
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| 36 | | - | (3) "Commercial kennel" means [a kennel] any place maintained for boarding or grooming dogs or cats, and includes, but is not limited to, any veterinary hospital which boards or grooms dogs or cats for nonmedical purposes; |
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| 38 | | - | (4) "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Agriculture; |
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| 40 | | - | (5) "Grooming facility" means any place, other than a commercial kennel, which is maintained as a business where dogs are groomed; |
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| 42 | | - | (6) "Keeper" means any person, other than the owner, harboring or having in his possession any dog; |
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| 44 | | - | (7) "Kennel" means one pack or collection of dogs which are kept under one ownership at a single location and are bred for show, sport or sale; |
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| 46 | | - | (8) "Municipal animal control officer" means any such officer appointed under the provisions of section 22-331; |
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| 48 | | - | (9) "Pet shop" means any place at which animals not born and raised on the premises are kept for the purpose of sale to the public; |
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| 50 | | - | (10) "Poultry" means all domestic fowl and any pheasants or other game birds securely confined and lawfully owned and possessed by any person under the provisions of section 26-40; |
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| 52 | | - | (11) "Regional animal control officer" and "assistant regional animal control officer" means a regional Connecticut animal control officer and an assistant regional Connecticut animal control officer appointed under the provisions of section 22-331a; |
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| 54 | | - | (12) "Training facility" means any place, other than a commercial kennel or grooming facility, which is maintained as a business where dogs are trained. |
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| 59 | | - | This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections: |
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| 60 | | - | Section 1 from passage 22-327 |
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| 62 | | - | This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections: |
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| 64 | | - | Section 1 |
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| 66 | | - | from passage |
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| 68 | | - | 22-327 |
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| 28 | + | That section 22-327 of the general statutes be amended to reconcile the definitions of "kennel" and "commercial kennel" and assure that the home-based boarding of pets is covered by such definitions. |
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