Elephant Butte, New Mexico

§ 91.20 REGISTRATION OF ANIMALS, PERMITS, AND ANNUAL PERMIT RENEWALS.

(A)   Registration.

(1)   Registration of animals with the city is required.

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(3)   Registration fees:

(a)   Intact animals will be five dollars annually.

(b)   Spay or neuter animals will be three dollars annually.

§ 91.23 NEUTERING AND SPAYING.

The city encourages pet owners to spay and neuter their pets in order to control the city’s animal population, prevent strays from roaming neighborhoods and becoming a nuisance, prevent disease and unsanitary conditions, and prevent unnecessary euthanasia of strays that cannot be provided a home.

§ 91.56 IMPOUNDMENT; FEES.

(A)   Additional fees imposed when animal impounded. Whenever any animal is impounded, whether or not the owner collects the animal, the city may charge the owner an additional fee that the city shall establish by resolution as a reference to this chapter and other fees incurred to reimburse the Animal Shelter for care, vaccination, and neutering or spaying of the animal.