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Ordinance #
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Presented By
Referred T
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2 An ordinance to amend Saint Paul Legislative
3 Code Chapter 347 to allow pet shops to act as
4 deputy dog license vendors and establishing an p« �l�uCr
5 incentive for doing so by permitting the pet ��� a� Q,99g
6 shop to xetain the initiallicense fees
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8 TFIE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAINT PAUL DOES ORDAIN:
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10 Section 1
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12 Chapter 34? of the Saint Paul Legislative Code is hereby amended to read as follows:
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15 Chapter 347. Pet Shops
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18 Sea 347.01. License required.
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20 No person shall keep or maintain a pet shop in Saint Paul without a license.
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22 Sec. 347.02. Definitions.
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24 Pet shop means and includes every place kept or maintained far the care, eachibition for sale, sale or
25 purchase of live dogs, cats, rabbits or other small animals, or any birds, reptiles or fish, but shall not include
26 veterinary hospitals ar persons or places selling only frogs, fish, worms or reptiles for use as live bait for
27 fishing. Pet shop licensees shall be exempt from obtaining a dog and cat grooming license pursuant to Chapter
2$ 382 of the Legislative Code. In addifion, such dog and cat grooming facilities shall be exempt from obtaining a
29 pet shop license.
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31 Pet shop facitity means any facility engaged in the operation of pet shops.
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33 Sec. 347.03. Fee.
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35 The fee required for each license shall be established by ordinance as specified in section 310.09(b) of
36 the Legislative Code.
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'�8 Sec. 34�.04. Application.
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ORDINANCE
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Application. Every applicant for a pet shop license shall file an application with the Office of License,
Inspections and Envirorunental Protection (LIEP). The application shall be on a form prescribed by LIEP
containing such information as the director of such office may require including, but not limited to, the
applicant's name, address and telephone number and the name, address and telephone number of the pet shop.
Each pet shop facility shail be sepazately licensed. An applicant may aiso elect to apply for pernussion to act as
a depury dog license vendor as part of its license and as such is entitled to retain 100% of the Iicense fee for
each animal uaitially licensed.
Sec. 347.05. Regulations.
(a) Premises. Every person keeping or maintaining a pet shop shall do so entirely within a closed
building, shail not keep or maintain any outside kennel service, and shall be subject to and sha11 comply with all
of the nxles and regulations of the Office of License, Inspections and Environmental Protection.
(b) Exotic animals. No pet shop shall maintain, keep or hazbor any skunk, whether captured in the wiid
or raised domesticaliy, descented or not descented, vaccinated against rabies ot not vaccinated against tabies.
No pet shop shall maintain, keep, hazbor or sell any red-eared turtle {Pseudemys scriptaelegans) with a shell
length of less than four (4) inches.
(c) Permit da4��%'c�se required. Every licensee shall affix in a prominent position to the exterior of the
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cage, pen, enclosure, or tank housing of any animal requiring a permit o�3,�e�e to keep within the city, a tag ar
norice with the wards "Saint Paul permit �r T�e�e��s� required."
(d) Rules and regulations. The director of environmental protection may upon notice and hearing
promulgate such rules as he or she deems necessary to carry out the provisions and purposes of this chapter, to
provide for the proper care of animais and to provide for the cleanliness and proper sanitation in such facilities.
Notice of the promulgation of such rules and the heazing date shall be given to all licensees, and nofice of the
hearing date published once in the legal newspaper. The notice shall advise that at the hearing written or oral
comments on proposed rules will be received, and how a copy of the proposed rules can be obtained. Such rules
shall be effective after such hearing when filed in the office of the city clerk. Violations of such rules shall be
sufficient grounds for adverse action against licenses issued undet this chapter_
(e) Records. Every licensee shall keep a book in which shall clearly be entered, in ink, at the fime of
each purchase or sale, an accurate account in the English language of any such live animal so purchased or soid,
including the name and address of the person by or to whom such purchase or sale is made.
( fl Reporting. Every licensee sha11 inform the person by or to whom such purchase ar sale is made for
any animal requiring a pernut '�1���s;� in order to keep it within the city of the guidelines for obtaining a
keeping-of-animal permit ����.
(g) Inspection. The record herein required to be kept, as well as the pxemises of each licensee, shall at all
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reasonable times be open to inspection and examination by the license and health inspectors of the City of
Saint Paul.
Section 2
This ordinance shall take effect and be in full force thirty (30) days following its passage, approval and
publication
Requested by Department of:
Office of License, Ins�ections and Environmental
Protection
BY� �4���=r�-
Adoption Certified by Council Secretary
:
Approved by Mayor: Aate `:t�3'/ �� j�cl �j
By: ��✓���
Adopted by Council: Date rS
Form Approved by City Attomey
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By: � 6�� �.�- L a/
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OFFICE oF LIEP Date: GREEN SHEET
Robert Kessler November 24, 1998 ��_I
266-9090 NO 50410 �
1 EPARTMEN'P DIRECLOR CZTY COUNCIL
2 ITY ATTORIS£Y ITY CLERK
x�sw.
ust be on Council Agenda by: � 17DGET DIRSCPOR IN. & MGT. SVC. DIR.
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SAP YOA (�R ASSISTANT)
OTAL # OF SIGNATURE PAGPS 1 (CLIP ALL LOCATIONS FOR SIGNATUR.E)
CTION REQUESTED:
ordinance amending Saint Paul Legislative Code Chapter 347 to allow pet
shops to act as deputy dog license vendors and establishing an incentive for
doing so by permitting the pet shop to retain the initial license fee.
COMM2NDATIONS: APPROVS (A) OR REJECT (R) SRSONAL SSAVICB CONTkTCTS MC15T AN^WSF2 TIiS POLLO➢1ING:
PLANNING CO[•II✓ISSION CIVIL SERVICE COMMSSSION 1. Aas the pesson/$sm ever wosked undet a contsact for this depattment?
CIB COMNISTTEE BUSINESS REVIEW COUNCIL YES NO
STAFF _ Has this person/firm ever been a City employee?
DI5IRICT COURT YES NO �
3. Does this person/firm possess a skill not normally possessed by any
UPPORTS WHICH COUIQCIL OBJECTIVE? . Current City employee?
YES NO
lain all Y85 aaswera on a aepaxate sheei aad attaeh.
INITIATING PROBLEM, ISSUE, OPPORTUNITY (Who, What, When, Where, Why):
significant number of dogs in Saint Paul are not properly licensed;
therefore, revenue generated from dog licenses does not cover the cost for
enforcement. Dogs seized from animal control officers are often put to sleep
nnecessarily because the owners cannot be contacted.
VANTAGES IF APPROVED:
This unique publicJprivate partnership is intended to increase the number of
dog licenses issued; this will generate more revenue and allow animal control
officers to contact dog owners and reduce the number o£ dogs being put to
sleep.
DISADVANTAGES IF APPROVED:
one apparent.
DISADVANTAGES IF NOT APPROVED:
evenue from dog licenses will remain lower than the cost of enforcement; dogs
ill continue to be put to sleep unnecessarily.
TOTAL AMOUNT OF TR1�INSACTION S COST/REVENUE T�UDGETED YES NO
FUNDING SOURCE ACTIVITY NTIMBER
FINANCIAI, INFORMATION: (EXPLAIN)
�a��.![e�;i S�aWU�^i��'= £ ' . :S''�u
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Council File # — t6 �t+�o
Ordinance #
Green Sheet # � v� � �
Presented By
Referred T
1
2 An ordinance to amend Saint Paul Legislative
3 Code Chapter 347 to allow pet shops to act as
4 deputy dog license vendors and establishing an p« �l�uCr
5 incentive for doing so by permitting the pet ��� a� Q,99g
6 shop to xetain the initiallicense fees
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8 TFIE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAINT PAUL DOES ORDAIN:
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10 Section 1
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12 Chapter 34? of the Saint Paul Legislative Code is hereby amended to read as follows:
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15 Chapter 347. Pet Shops
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18 Sea 347.01. License required.
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20 No person shall keep or maintain a pet shop in Saint Paul without a license.
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22 Sec. 347.02. Definitions.
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24 Pet shop means and includes every place kept or maintained far the care, eachibition for sale, sale or
25 purchase of live dogs, cats, rabbits or other small animals, or any birds, reptiles or fish, but shall not include
26 veterinary hospitals ar persons or places selling only frogs, fish, worms or reptiles for use as live bait for
27 fishing. Pet shop licensees shall be exempt from obtaining a dog and cat grooming license pursuant to Chapter
2$ 382 of the Legislative Code. In addifion, such dog and cat grooming facilities shall be exempt from obtaining a
29 pet shop license.
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31 Pet shop facitity means any facility engaged in the operation of pet shops.
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33 Sec. 347.03. Fee.
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35 The fee required for each license shall be established by ordinance as specified in section 310.09(b) of
36 the Legislative Code.
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'�8 Sec. 34�.04. Application.
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ORDINANCE
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Application. Every applicant for a pet shop license shall file an application with the Office of License,
Inspections and Envirorunental Protection (LIEP). The application shall be on a form prescribed by LIEP
containing such information as the director of such office may require including, but not limited to, the
applicant's name, address and telephone number and the name, address and telephone number of the pet shop.
Each pet shop facility shail be sepazately licensed. An applicant may aiso elect to apply for pernussion to act as
a depury dog license vendor as part of its license and as such is entitled to retain 100% of the Iicense fee for
each animal uaitially licensed.
Sec. 347.05. Regulations.
(a) Premises. Every person keeping or maintaining a pet shop shall do so entirely within a closed
building, shail not keep or maintain any outside kennel service, and shall be subject to and sha11 comply with all
of the nxles and regulations of the Office of License, Inspections and Environmental Protection.
(b) Exotic animals. No pet shop shall maintain, keep or hazbor any skunk, whether captured in the wiid
or raised domesticaliy, descented or not descented, vaccinated against rabies ot not vaccinated against tabies.
No pet shop shall maintain, keep, hazbor or sell any red-eared turtle {Pseudemys scriptaelegans) with a shell
length of less than four (4) inches.
(c) Permit da4��%'c�se required. Every licensee shall affix in a prominent position to the exterior of the
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cage, pen, enclosure, or tank housing of any animal requiring a permit o�3,�e�e to keep within the city, a tag ar
norice with the wards "Saint Paul permit �r T�e�e��s� required."
(d) Rules and regulations. The director of environmental protection may upon notice and hearing
promulgate such rules as he or she deems necessary to carry out the provisions and purposes of this chapter, to
provide for the proper care of animais and to provide for the cleanliness and proper sanitation in such facilities.
Notice of the promulgation of such rules and the heazing date shall be given to all licensees, and nofice of the
hearing date published once in the legal newspaper. The notice shall advise that at the hearing written or oral
comments on proposed rules will be received, and how a copy of the proposed rules can be obtained. Such rules
shall be effective after such hearing when filed in the office of the city clerk. Violations of such rules shall be
sufficient grounds for adverse action against licenses issued undet this chapter_
(e) Records. Every licensee shall keep a book in which shall clearly be entered, in ink, at the fime of
each purchase or sale, an accurate account in the English language of any such live animal so purchased or soid,
including the name and address of the person by or to whom such purchase or sale is made.
( fl Reporting. Every licensee sha11 inform the person by or to whom such purchase ar sale is made for
any animal requiring a pernut '�1���s;� in order to keep it within the city of the guidelines for obtaining a
keeping-of-animal permit ����.
(g) Inspection. The record herein required to be kept, as well as the pxemises of each licensee, shall at all
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reasonable times be open to inspection and examination by the license and health inspectors of the City of
Saint Paul.
Section 2
This ordinance shall take effect and be in full force thirty (30) days following its passage, approval and
publication
Requested by Department of:
Office of License, Ins�ections and Environmental
Protection
BY� �4���=r�-
Adoption Certified by Council Secretary
:
Approved by Mayor: Aate `:t�3'/ �� j�cl �j
By: ��✓���
Adopted by Council: Date rS
Form Approved by City Attomey
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By: � 6�� �.�- L a/
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OFFICE oF LIEP Date: GREEN SHEET
Robert Kessler November 24, 1998 ��_I
266-9090 NO 50410 �
1 EPARTMEN'P DIRECLOR CZTY COUNCIL
2 ITY ATTORIS£Y ITY CLERK
x�sw.
ust be on Council Agenda by: � 17DGET DIRSCPOR IN. & MGT. SVC. DIR.
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SAP YOA (�R ASSISTANT)
OTAL # OF SIGNATURE PAGPS 1 (CLIP ALL LOCATIONS FOR SIGNATUR.E)
CTION REQUESTED:
ordinance amending Saint Paul Legislative Code Chapter 347 to allow pet
shops to act as deputy dog license vendors and establishing an incentive for
doing so by permitting the pet shop to retain the initial license fee.
COMM2NDATIONS: APPROVS (A) OR REJECT (R) SRSONAL SSAVICB CONTkTCTS MC15T AN^WSF2 TIiS POLLO➢1ING:
PLANNING CO[•II✓ISSION CIVIL SERVICE COMMSSSION 1. Aas the pesson/$sm ever wosked undet a contsact for this depattment?
CIB COMNISTTEE BUSINESS REVIEW COUNCIL YES NO
STAFF _ Has this person/firm ever been a City employee?
DI5IRICT COURT YES NO �
3. Does this person/firm possess a skill not normally possessed by any
UPPORTS WHICH COUIQCIL OBJECTIVE? . Current City employee?
YES NO
lain all Y85 aaswera on a aepaxate sheei aad attaeh.
INITIATING PROBLEM, ISSUE, OPPORTUNITY (Who, What, When, Where, Why):
significant number of dogs in Saint Paul are not properly licensed;
therefore, revenue generated from dog licenses does not cover the cost for
enforcement. Dogs seized from animal control officers are often put to sleep
nnecessarily because the owners cannot be contacted.
VANTAGES IF APPROVED:
This unique publicJprivate partnership is intended to increase the number of
dog licenses issued; this will generate more revenue and allow animal control
officers to contact dog owners and reduce the number o£ dogs being put to
sleep.
DISADVANTAGES IF APPROVED:
one apparent.
DISADVANTAGES IF NOT APPROVED:
evenue from dog licenses will remain lower than the cost of enforcement; dogs
ill continue to be put to sleep unnecessarily.
TOTAL AMOUNT OF TR1�INSACTION S COST/REVENUE T�UDGETED YES NO
FUNDING SOURCE ACTIVITY NTIMBER
FINANCIAI, INFORMATION: (EXPLAIN)
�a��.![e�;i S�aWU�^i��'= £ ' . :S''�u
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Council File # — t6 �t+�o
Ordinance #
Green Sheet # � v� � �
Presented By
Referred T
1
2 An ordinance to amend Saint Paul Legislative
3 Code Chapter 347 to allow pet shops to act as
4 deputy dog license vendors and establishing an p« �l�uCr
5 incentive for doing so by permitting the pet ��� a� Q,99g
6 shop to xetain the initiallicense fees
7
8 TFIE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAINT PAUL DOES ORDAIN:
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10 Section 1
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12 Chapter 34? of the Saint Paul Legislative Code is hereby amended to read as follows:
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15 Chapter 347. Pet Shops
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18 Sea 347.01. License required.
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20 No person shall keep or maintain a pet shop in Saint Paul without a license.
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22 Sec. 347.02. Definitions.
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24 Pet shop means and includes every place kept or maintained far the care, eachibition for sale, sale or
25 purchase of live dogs, cats, rabbits or other small animals, or any birds, reptiles or fish, but shall not include
26 veterinary hospitals ar persons or places selling only frogs, fish, worms or reptiles for use as live bait for
27 fishing. Pet shop licensees shall be exempt from obtaining a dog and cat grooming license pursuant to Chapter
2$ 382 of the Legislative Code. In addifion, such dog and cat grooming facilities shall be exempt from obtaining a
29 pet shop license.
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31 Pet shop facitity means any facility engaged in the operation of pet shops.
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33 Sec. 347.03. Fee.
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35 The fee required for each license shall be established by ordinance as specified in section 310.09(b) of
36 the Legislative Code.
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'�8 Sec. 34�.04. Application.
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ORDINANCE
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Application. Every applicant for a pet shop license shall file an application with the Office of License,
Inspections and Envirorunental Protection (LIEP). The application shall be on a form prescribed by LIEP
containing such information as the director of such office may require including, but not limited to, the
applicant's name, address and telephone number and the name, address and telephone number of the pet shop.
Each pet shop facility shail be sepazately licensed. An applicant may aiso elect to apply for pernussion to act as
a depury dog license vendor as part of its license and as such is entitled to retain 100% of the Iicense fee for
each animal uaitially licensed.
Sec. 347.05. Regulations.
(a) Premises. Every person keeping or maintaining a pet shop shall do so entirely within a closed
building, shail not keep or maintain any outside kennel service, and shall be subject to and sha11 comply with all
of the nxles and regulations of the Office of License, Inspections and Environmental Protection.
(b) Exotic animals. No pet shop shall maintain, keep or hazbor any skunk, whether captured in the wiid
or raised domesticaliy, descented or not descented, vaccinated against rabies ot not vaccinated against tabies.
No pet shop shall maintain, keep, hazbor or sell any red-eared turtle {Pseudemys scriptaelegans) with a shell
length of less than four (4) inches.
(c) Permit da4��%'c�se required. Every licensee shall affix in a prominent position to the exterior of the
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cage, pen, enclosure, or tank housing of any animal requiring a permit o�3,�e�e to keep within the city, a tag ar
norice with the wards "Saint Paul permit �r T�e�e��s� required."
(d) Rules and regulations. The director of environmental protection may upon notice and hearing
promulgate such rules as he or she deems necessary to carry out the provisions and purposes of this chapter, to
provide for the proper care of animais and to provide for the cleanliness and proper sanitation in such facilities.
Notice of the promulgation of such rules and the heazing date shall be given to all licensees, and nofice of the
hearing date published once in the legal newspaper. The notice shall advise that at the hearing written or oral
comments on proposed rules will be received, and how a copy of the proposed rules can be obtained. Such rules
shall be effective after such hearing when filed in the office of the city clerk. Violations of such rules shall be
sufficient grounds for adverse action against licenses issued undet this chapter_
(e) Records. Every licensee shall keep a book in which shall clearly be entered, in ink, at the fime of
each purchase or sale, an accurate account in the English language of any such live animal so purchased or soid,
including the name and address of the person by or to whom such purchase or sale is made.
( fl Reporting. Every licensee sha11 inform the person by or to whom such purchase ar sale is made for
any animal requiring a pernut '�1���s;� in order to keep it within the city of the guidelines for obtaining a
keeping-of-animal permit ����.
(g) Inspection. The record herein required to be kept, as well as the pxemises of each licensee, shall at all
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reasonable times be open to inspection and examination by the license and health inspectors of the City of
Saint Paul.
Section 2
This ordinance shall take effect and be in full force thirty (30) days following its passage, approval and
publication
Requested by Department of:
Office of License, Ins�ections and Environmental
Protection
BY� �4���=r�-
Adoption Certified by Council Secretary
:
Approved by Mayor: Aate `:t�3'/ �� j�cl �j
By: ��✓���
Adopted by Council: Date rS
Form Approved by City Attomey
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By: � 6�� �.�- L a/
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OFFICE oF LIEP Date: GREEN SHEET
Robert Kessler November 24, 1998 ��_I
266-9090 NO 50410 �
1 EPARTMEN'P DIRECLOR CZTY COUNCIL
2 ITY ATTORIS£Y ITY CLERK
x�sw.
ust be on Council Agenda by: � 17DGET DIRSCPOR IN. & MGT. SVC. DIR.
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SAP YOA (�R ASSISTANT)
OTAL # OF SIGNATURE PAGPS 1 (CLIP ALL LOCATIONS FOR SIGNATUR.E)
CTION REQUESTED:
ordinance amending Saint Paul Legislative Code Chapter 347 to allow pet
shops to act as deputy dog license vendors and establishing an incentive for
doing so by permitting the pet shop to retain the initial license fee.
COMM2NDATIONS: APPROVS (A) OR REJECT (R) SRSONAL SSAVICB CONTkTCTS MC15T AN^WSF2 TIiS POLLO➢1ING:
PLANNING CO[•II✓ISSION CIVIL SERVICE COMMSSSION 1. Aas the pesson/$sm ever wosked undet a contsact for this depattment?
CIB COMNISTTEE BUSINESS REVIEW COUNCIL YES NO
STAFF _ Has this person/firm ever been a City employee?
DI5IRICT COURT YES NO �
3. Does this person/firm possess a skill not normally possessed by any
UPPORTS WHICH COUIQCIL OBJECTIVE? . Current City employee?
YES NO
lain all Y85 aaswera on a aepaxate sheei aad attaeh.
INITIATING PROBLEM, ISSUE, OPPORTUNITY (Who, What, When, Where, Why):
significant number of dogs in Saint Paul are not properly licensed;
therefore, revenue generated from dog licenses does not cover the cost for
enforcement. Dogs seized from animal control officers are often put to sleep
nnecessarily because the owners cannot be contacted.
VANTAGES IF APPROVED:
This unique publicJprivate partnership is intended to increase the number of
dog licenses issued; this will generate more revenue and allow animal control
officers to contact dog owners and reduce the number o£ dogs being put to
sleep.
DISADVANTAGES IF APPROVED:
one apparent.
DISADVANTAGES IF NOT APPROVED:
evenue from dog licenses will remain lower than the cost of enforcement; dogs
ill continue to be put to sleep unnecessarily.
TOTAL AMOUNT OF TR1�INSACTION S COST/REVENUE T�UDGETED YES NO
FUNDING SOURCE ACTIVITY NTIMBER
FINANCIAI, INFORMATION: (EXPLAIN)
�a��.![e�;i S�aWU�^i��'= £ ' . :S''�u
s
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