What does the Animal Control Division do?
When does the Animal Control Officer (ACO} ware?
How do | contact the Animal Coniral Officer?
Why would I need to coritact the Animal Control Officer?
What is the “leash law"?
What will happen if my dog is picked up for “running a: larga"?
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AMENDED AND RESTATED AGREEMENT . Pe <7 \
Humane Society for Greater Nashua Corporation and the City of Nashua, NH
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AGREEMENT made this | | day of !Y2017 by and between the City of
Nashua, New Hampshire (hereinafter “Cily”), 2 municipal corporation with a principal place of
The Finance Committee should decline to approve the proposed renewal contract with HS for all
of the above reason. Instead, the Committee should seek to amend the proposed contract so it does
not provide for the City impounding cats or ferrets as “strays” at the HS. | am not requesting that the
compensation to be paid the HS by the City under the renewed contract be reduced in any way. Thank
you.
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Cats and ferrets are personally property under NH and federal law. Because the City has no
licensing law for cats or ferrets, the impounding of a cat or ferret by the City without
providing notice to the owner of the cat or ferret and the opportunity to recover the animal
can operate to deprive the cat or ferret owner of the owner's constitutional due process
rights associated with his or her personal property in the form of the animal, including per
the 14th amendment to the US Constitution.
duly 9, 2019
VIA ELECTRONIC DELIVERY ONLY
Members of the Finance Committee
City of Nashua
229 Main Street
Nashua NH 03061
Upcoming Renewal of Contract Between City of Nashua and the Humane Society
for Greater Nashua — Finance Committee Meeting to be Held July 10, 2019
Dear Members of the Finance Committee:
entity in the State and in this country, are subject to the rule of law and are prohibited from engaging in
iHegal acts or cons
Please note | am not asking that the Committee or the City reduce or otherwise modify the
compensation to be paid to the Humane Society under the contract for any reason or in any amount.
Thanks for your consideration.
was assured by Corporate Counsel that it was not the practice of the Police to impound cats as strays
and that the situation involving my cat was an aberration. | was promised that the Police would never do
this to my cat again. | also convinced the City to change the then existing contract with Humane Society
to remove language from the contract regarding impounding cats and ferrets as strays at the Humane
Society. The revised contract without language about impounding cats and ferrets is dated December
constitution requires several things when a citizen’s property is seized by the government. One is that
the owner of the property must be properly informed prior to the seizure that the law permits seizure of
the property (i.e. the animal) under certain circurnstances, and what those circumstances are. Once a
seizure of personal property occurs, the governmental entity which seized the property must notify the
owner of the property of the seizure and must provide some mechanism whereby the owner can at
rabies but that’s not the issue here. With all respect intended, our government’s powers are limited to
what the law or the State constitution provides to the government in way of power. Here, the City is not
legally authorized under current State law and municipal ordinance to impound cats as strays or for
running at large. If the City wants to impound cats as strays or for running at large, or in fact is doing so
as a matter of practice, then it should modify its animal ordinance to provide for such. Amending the
