Bill Text: NC S612 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Pet Boarding Facilities
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-04-05 - Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate [S612 Detail]
Download: North_Carolina-2017-S612-Amended.html
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2017
S 1
SENATE BILL 612
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Short Title: Pet Boarding Facilities. |
(Public) |
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Sponsors: |
Senators Brock and Sanderson (Primary Sponsors). |
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Referred to: |
Rules and Operations of the Senate |
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April 5, 2017
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to clarify staffing standards for boarding kennels offering dog day care services.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1. G.S. 19A‑23 reads as rewritten:
"§ 19A‑23. Definitions.
For the purposes of this Article, the following terms, when used in the Article or the rules or orders made pursuant thereto, shall be construed respectively to mean:
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(6) "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Agriculture of the State of North Carolina.
(6a) "Common area" means any area within a housing facility providing an open space where more than four dogs are free to exercise or play together.
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(10) "Housing
facility" means any room, building, or area used to contain a primary
enclosure or enclosures.enclosures or common areas.
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(13) "Primary
enclosure" means any structure used to immediately restrict an animal
or four or fewer animals to a limited amount of space, such as a
room, pen, cage compartment or hutch.
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SECTION 2. G.S. 19A‑24(a)(1) reads as rewritten:
"(1) Establish standards
for the care of animals at animal shelters, boarding kennels, pet shops, and
public auctions. A boarding kennel that offers dog day care services and as
to each common area (i) has a ratio of dogs to employees or supervisors,
or both employees and supervisors, supervisors within the housing
facility of not more than 10 15 to one, one and
(ii) has no more than 50 dogs in any common area at any time shall not as
to such day care services be subject to any regulations that restrict
impose further supervisory requirements on the number of dogs that
are permitted within any primary enclosure.the common area or any
primary enclosure beyond a requirement that at least one staffer be present in
a common area at all times that 10 or more dogs are within the common area."
SECTION 3. This act becomes effective October 1, 2017.
