North Carolina § 19A-65 - Annual Report Required From Every Animal Shelter in Receipt of State or Local Funding.

§ 19A-65. Annual Report Required From Every Animal Shelter in Receipt of State or Local Funding.

Every county or city animal shelter, or animal shelter operated under contract with a county or city or otherwise in receipt of State or local funding[,] shall prepare an annual report in the form required by the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services setting forth the numbers, by species, of animals received into the shelter, the number adopted out, the number returned to owner, and the number destroyed. The report shall also contain the total operating expenses of the shelter and the cost per animal handled. The report shall be filed with the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services by March 1 of each year. A city or county that does not timely file the report required by this section is not eligible to receive reimbursement payments under G.S. 19A-64 during the calendar year in which the report was to be filed. History (2000-163, s. 5; 2010-31, s. 11.4(f).) Editor's Note. - Session Laws 2000-163, s. 5 was codified as this section at the direction of the Revisor of Statutes. Session Laws 2010-31, s. 11.4(a), provides: "The Spay/Neuter Program established under G.S. 19A-61 and the Spay/Neuter Account established under G.S. 19A-62 are transferred from the Department of Health and Human Services to the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. Any unexpended funds appropriated to the Department of Health and Human Services for the 2009-2010 fiscal year to implement the Spay/Neuter Program are transferred to the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services." Session Laws 2010-31, s. 1.1, provides: "This act shall be known as the 'Current Operations and Capital Improvements Appropriations Act of 2010.'" Session Laws 2010-31, s. 32.3, provides: "Except for statutory changes or other provisions that clearly indicate an intention to have effects beyond the 2010-2011 fiscal year, the textual provisions of this act apply only to funds appropriated for, and activities occurring during, the 2010-2011 fiscal year." Session Laws 2010-31, s. 32.6, is a severability clause. Effect of Amendments. - Session Laws 2010-31, s. 11.4(f), effective October 1, 2010, in the first sentence, inserted "in the form required by the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services," in the third sentence, substituted "the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services by March 1 of each year" for "the Department of Health and Human Services by August 1 of each year," and added the last sentence.