<div class="chunk-title">Sec. 10-123. - Redemption by owner generally.</div>
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               (a)
               
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               If an impounded animal is not redeemed by the owner within the period prescribed in<a href="" data-chunk-id="PTIICOOR_CH10AN_ARTVIM_S10-122NOOW" class="section-link" data-product-id="12658"> section 10-122</a>, it may be destroyed in a humane manner or shall become the property of the animal
               shelters and offered for adoption to any responsible adult who is willing to comply
               with this chapter. It is recommended that cylinder carbon monoxide gas rather than
               engine-produced carbon monoxide gas be used in the destruction of unclaimed animals.
               Such animal may be adopted or purchased by the first such person who pays the adoption
               or purchase fee and rabies vaccination fee.
               
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               (b)
               
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               The animal control department shall recommend that all adopted female dogs and cats
               released from the animal shelter be spayed.
               
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               (c)
               
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               No animal which has been impounded by reason of its being stray, unclaimed by its
               owner, shall be allowed to be adopted from the animal shelter during a period of emergency
               rabies quarantine invoked pursuant to<a href="" data-chunk-id="PTIICOOR_CH10AN_ARTIVRACO_S10-102ARDEEMQU" class="section-link" data-product-id="12658"> section 10-102</a>, except by special authorization of the director of public health and the animal
               control department.
               
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               (Ord. of 8-17-92, art. III, Â§ 3; Ord. of 3-19-96, art. III, Â§ 3; Ord. No. 2002-06,
               10-21-02)
               
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