ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Wednesday, May 8, 1996 TAG: 9605080023
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-4 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
DATELINE: PULASKI
SOURCE: PAUL DELLINGER
Pulaski County has not been following its own regulations on the licensing of dogs in kennels for the past six years.
So the county Board of Supervisors changed the regulations to fit the practice.
Since 1989, the regulations have required kennel operators to buy licenses for their first 20 dogs in addition to the $20 kennel license.
But the regulations never have been administered that way. Instead, when a person pays $20 for a kennel license, no license fees for individual dogs have been enforced.
Because individual licenses are $5 (or $3 for a dog that has been spayed or neutered), it has been cheaper for people with that many dogs to declare themselves kennel operators and get a $20 license, whether they have an actual kennel or not.
County Administrator Joe Morgan told the Board of Supervisors Monday night that it probably did not want to change the established practiced now, even if the ordinance has not been interpreted correctly over the past six years. A county animal welfare committee has been working on revisions to the ordinance, in any case.
But Supervisor Bruce Fariss moved for an immediate vote on changing the ordinance to fit the practice, to clear things up once and for all. The board approved his motion to have kennel operators pay just the $20 license and not have to buy individual tags.
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