General Assembly Committee Bill No. 6124
January Session, 2017 LCO No. 4069
*04069HB06124ENV*
Referred to Committee on ENVIRONMENT
Introduced by:
(ENV)
General Assembly
Committee Bill No. 6124
January Session, 2017
LCO No. 4069
*04069HB06124ENV*
Referred to Committee on ENVIRONMENT
Introduced by:
(ENV)
AN ACT RECONCILING THE DEFINITIONS OF "KENNEL" AND "COMMERCIAL KENNEL" FOR PURPOSES OF THE HOME-BASED BOARDING OF PETS.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:
Section 1. Section 22-327 of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective from passage):
As used in this chapter:
(1) "Animal" means any brute creature, including, but not limited to, dogs, cats, monkeys, guinea pigs, hamsters, rabbits, birds and reptiles;
(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;
(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;
(4) "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Agriculture;
(5) "Grooming facility" means any place, other than a commercial kennel, which is maintained as a business where dogs are groomed;
(6) "Keeper" means any person, other than the owner, harboring or having in his possession any dog;
(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;
(8) "Municipal animal control officer" means any such officer appointed under the provisions of section 22-331;
(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;
(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;
(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;
(12) "Training facility" means any place, other than a commercial kennel or grooming facility, which is maintained as a business where dogs are trained.
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1 from passage 22-327
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1
from passage
22-327
Statement of Purpose:
To clarify definitions pertaining to the boarding of pets.
[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline, except that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is not underlined.]
Co-Sponsors: REP. ROSE, 118th Dist.; REP. ELLIOTT, 88th Dist.
Co-Sponsors:
REP. ROSE, 118th Dist.; REP. ELLIOTT, 88th Dist.
H.B. 6124