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Volume 52, No. 21

B.C. Reg. 245/2009

The British Columbia Gazette,

Part II

November 3, 2009

B.C. Reg. 245/2009 , deposited October 22, 2009, pursuant to the LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT [Section 799]. Order in Council 540/2009, approved and ordered October 22, 2009.

On the recommendation of the undersigned, the Administrator, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, orders that the Capital Regional District Regulation, B.C. Reg. 65/90, is amended by adding the following section:

Animal control authority — domestic cats

(1) The Capital Regional District may, by bylaw, regulate or prohibit the keeping of domestic cats and define areas in which domestic cats may be kept or may not be kept.

(2) For the purposes of enforcing a bylaw under subsection (1), the Capital Regional District may, by bylaw, do one or more of the following:

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a) provide for the seizure, impounding and detention of domestic cats that are being kept in contravention of a bylaw under subsection (1);

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b) establish, maintain and operate facilities as pounds for domestic cats seized, impounded or detained under paragraph (a);

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c) regulate and establish the fines and fees, including damages for domestic cats trespassing on private property, to be levied and collected by pound keepers;

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d) provide for the sale or destruction of impounded domestic cats if the fines and fees are not paid within a reasonable time.

— B. BENNETT, Minister of Community and Rural Development ; C. HANSEN, Presiding Member of the Executive Council .

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