The Junction City Commission will once again consider the adoption of a new animal control code for the city during their commission meeting Tuesday night.

The issue was tabled during their October 15th meeting in order for the committee that has written the new code to make some changes.

Cheryl Beatty, Assistant City Manager is one of the members of the committee, “There were eight changes that the commissioners gave direction to us on.”

One of the changes included grandfathering pets that exceed the number allowed in a single home under the new code,”We grandfathered the clause on ownership, the numbers of pets owned per household.”

Under the new code a household would only be allowed five dogs, five cats and five ferrets. Current homes that have more than five in any of the three categories would need to register those animals with the city in order for them to be grandfathered in.

“Those are grandfathered with the idea that eventually they would have to get down to five for each category,” Beatty said.

The definition of a foster care home was also added. That definition will allow those who are are an official foster home for animals to have more than the five of each of the three animals listed in the code for temporary care. A section was also added that listed the regulations for a foster home as it relates to the animal shelter.

Another change that has been made includes the tethering of animals and the definition of supervision of tethered animals. “We just made it more clear that a person had to be at the residence at the time in which they tether a dog or an animal.”

The animal shelter definition was also changed and is now based off of the state statutes, and the section concerning A.D.A. restrictions was completely removed to just allow federal law to govern that.

The city commission will once again look at adopting the new ordinance during their 7:00 p.m. meeting Tuesday night in the City Commission room located on the second floor of the Municipal Building.