HB 6124 — AN ACT RECONCILING THE DEFINITIONS OF "KENNEL" AND "COMMERCIAL KENNEL" FOR PURPOSES OF THE HOME-BASED BOARDING OF PETS.

General Assembly   ProposedCommittee Bill No.

6124   January Session, 2017   LCO No.

3214069   *00321**04069HB06124ENV* Referred to Committee on ENVIRONMENT   Introduced by:

  REP.(ENV)   AN ACT RECONCILING THE DEFINITIONS OF "KENNEL" AND "COMMERCIAL KENNEL" FOR PURPOSES OF THE HOME-BASED BOARDING OF PETS.

ROSE, 118th Dist.

  AN ACT RECONCILING THE DEFINITIONS OF "KENNEL" AND "COMMERCIAL KENNEL" FOR PURPOSES OF THE HOME-BASED BOARDING OF PETS.

ThatSection section1. 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.

StatementSection 22-327 of Purpose:the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective from passage):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 Statement of Purpose:

[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.

H.B.

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