<div class="chunk-title">Sec. 8-98. - Purpose and objective.</div>
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               This article is established to ensure that animals, as items of commerce sold and
               traded through pet shops, are provided humane care and treatment by regulating the
               sale, purchase, housing, care, handling and treatment of such animals by persons engaged
               in the pet shop business and to prohibit the sale or trade of those animals which
               show physical signs of infection, or communicable disease, unless veterinary care
               is provided for these animals, by the pet shop owner or operator, prior to sale or
               trade.
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               (Ord. of 7-23-90(2), Â§ 2)
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