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� V L Vil�SEJING <br />TO: Mayor and City Council (w Y OF OiiONO <br />FROM: Mark Bernhardson, City Administrator <br />DATE: May 3, 1988 <br />SOBJF.CT: Animal Control Regulations <br />Attachment A. Orono Pelice Report #88-002367 <br />B. City of Orono Ordinances 9.12 and 9.13 <br />C. Ordinance #157 (repealed) <br />D. Ordinance #239 (repealed) <br />E. John Hollander ;,etter Dated 4/29/88 <br />ISSUE <br />1. Review of the City's dog licensing ordinance and its <br />applicability. <br />2. Review of the City's kennel licensing ordinance and its <br />applicability. <br />3. Review of the City's farm animal regulation and its <br />applicability. <br />INTRODUCTION - On Thursday, April 28th C.S.O. Dennison was called <br />to 200 Hollander Road by the resident regarding live trapping of <br />a raccoon. When C.S.O. Denn i son ar r i ved the ow .er was not home, <br />but in his search for the owner he noted several violations on <br />the property and issued warning tags for the fact that the three <br />dogs on the property are not currently licensed and that there <br />was no kennel license in existence together with the fact that <br />there was substantial feces that evidently had not been cleaned <br />up for several days. He did remove the raccoon that had been <br />trapped for release near the Orono schools. (Mr. Hollander <br />claims hr, drownod it.) <br />The owner has said that he had never licenses the dogs nor been <br />required to have a kennel for the dogs and that there was a <br />gentlemen's agreement with the City regarding this. The City is <br />unaware of that and even if the City instituted its licensing <br />arrangements for these substantially after the owner had his <br />practice in existance since 1956 and did not require a license, <br />it is staff's positic.1 a license is still required. While in <br />the land use area the provision of grandfathering is subject to a <br />conditional use pormit does have some presedence, as a legal non- <br />conforming use, a licensing statute generally has immediate <br />appl icahl i ty to al 1 persons who f.a l 1 under the catagory. Mr. <br />Hol lander indicates Mr. Dick Henson, former City Administrator <br />and F,mPrsnn. Dressel, former Orono Police Sgt. indicated he did <br />not need them. <br />4r. Ifol lander a,iditional ly has a problem in being able to <br />1 <br />