Del. Code tit. 16 § 3013F

Current through 2024 Legislative Session Act Chapter 476
Section 3013F - Definitions
(a) "Abandoned/free-roaminghomeless/stray/unwanted animal" - A cat or dog with no known owner or not wanted by its owner or that may be deserted by its owner .
(b) "Administrator" -- Department of Health and Social Services.
(c) "Animal control agency" -- Any state, county or municipally authorized animal control agency.
(d) "Animal shelter" -- A public or private facility which includes a physical structure that provides temporary or permanent shelter to stray, abandoned, abused, or owner-surrendered animals.
(e) "Cat" -- A member of the genus and species known as felis catus.
(f) "Dog" -- A member of the genus and species known as canis familiaris.
(g) "Feral Cat"-- A cat that (i) is born in the wild or is the offspring of an owned or feral cat and which may not be socialized, or (ii) is a formerly owned cat that has been abandoned and is no longer socialized.

(h) "Free-roaming cat caretaker" - A person who provides shelter, medical care, or food to one or more feral or free-roaming cats lacking discernible owner identification, and works to reduce colony numbers by working to spay and neuter the animals within their specific colony or colonies. Free-roaming cat caretakers are not owners.
(i) "Ear-tip" - The removal of approximately a quarter-inch off the tip of the cat's left ear while the cat is anesthetized.
(j) "Owner" -- Any person, firm, partnership, association or corporation owning, keeping or harboring a cat, dog or other animal.
(k) "Program" -- The mandatory pre-adoption sterilization and rabies inoculation program established by and set forth in this subchapter for cats and dogs.
(l) "Spay/neuter" -- To sterilize a female animal by removing the ovaries or to castrate a male animal by removing the testicles or by FDA approved pharmaceutical sterilization.

16 Del. C. § 3013F

Amended by Laws 2017, ch. 450,s 2, eff. 10/1/2018.
Amended by Laws 2013, ch. 377,s 2, eff. 7/31/2014.
75 Del. Laws, c. 326, § 1; 76 Del. Laws, c. 284, § 1.;