Animal Control
December 13, 2023
1 Government Code Section 54957.5 SB 343
Item Agenda: 12/13/2023 REG CC - Item
#21
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2 Repeal /
Replace
SSFMC 9.04
Required by
Animal Control
Services
Agreement
County-led
process to
update
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3 Rabies vacation age
• Lowered to align with state law
“Vicious” animals
• Updates language & enforcement
• Raises threshold for being declared
“vicious”
• Offending animals that deemed a
significant danger to the public still
designated as “vicious”
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4 “Dangerous” animals
• Updates language & enforcement
• Exhibited behavior requiring heightened
safety requirements for keeping to ensure
public protection.
• Current ordinance: designation for life of
animal
• Proposed ordinance: Owner may apply for
designation to be lifted after three years
• Removes language that an owner may not
maintain a “dangerous” animal in a home
with a juvenile.
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5 Staff recommends that City Council conduct the
public hearing and first reading and introduce an
Ordinance repealing and replacing Chapter 9.04
ANIMAL LICENSING AND CONTROL of the
South San Francisco Municipal Code.