§ 14-73. Spay and neuter trust fund.

There is created the spay and neuter trust fund, a permanent trust fund of the county, into which shall be deposited monthly monies derived from the fees generated by difference between the costs for registering an altered animal versus the cost of registering an unaltered animal. There shall also be deposited into the spay and neuter trust fund any other monies which may be from time to time appropriated to this trust fund by the board, or monies, gifts, or donations donated by non-governmental sources. The monies deposited in this trust fund are to be appropriated by the director of the animal control authority or designee and shall be utilized and expended, solely for the education/promotion of sterilization and primarily for sterilization programs created and established in section 14-76. Monies deposited in this trust fund shall be available for expenditure notwithstanding fiscal years and shall not lapse at the end of any fiscal year. Expenditures from this trust fund shall not exceed actual revenues received at any time. The director of the county finance department is authorized and directed to make disbursements from this trust fund upon the written request of the director of the animal control authority, or designee, with respect to permitted expenditures. The animal control authority shall give to the county board of county commissioners an accounting of the disposition of the monies of this trust fund upon request of the board.

(Ord. No. 2018-02, § 1, 1-23-18)