Sec. 111.455. - Animal Care and Protective Services Veterinary Services Trust Fund.

There is hereby created the Animal Care and Protective Services Veterinary Services Trust Fund, a permanent, ongoing trust fund which shall carry forward each fiscal year and not lapse. The trust fund shall receive funds from the ninth and tenth dollar generated from the sale of pet license tags and all fees collected for medical services provided, along with such other monies, whether in the form of a gift, donation, bequest, endowment, grant, or other form of contribution designated to this fund. Such funds as are deposited in this trust account are to be appropriated by Council for the purpose of assisting in paying for the costs of (1) in-house veterinarian services and supporting services for animals impounded by ACPS and sheltered by the City during any holding period or while waiting for adoption/placement, any veterinary and other related supplies, any veterinary and other related equipment, any retrofitting of examination and related areas, all as needed, or appropriate, for such veterinarian services and/or for shelter activities directly supporting such services, contract veterinarian services and/or for an in-house veterinarian intern/training program and (2) emergency veterinarian services for at-large dogs and cats found in severe medical distress; provided by veterinarians not employed by ACPS. All other funds may be used for the purpose of training ACPS employees, or at such times as the Department Director, or designee, may adjudge that timely and sufficient expenditures per (1), or (2), hereinabove have been covered, any surplus in the fund may, at the discretion of the Department Director, or designee, be utilized to fund (3) such computerization, including but not limited to hardware, software, programming services, repair services, and supplies as the Department Director, or designee, may deem appropriate for enhancing computerized Animal Care and Protective Services Center animal-management efforts, including but not limited to veterinarian-care tracking, shelter-inventory tracking, license tracking, and adoption spay-and-neuter delinquency tracking. The Director of the Finance and Administration Department is authorized to make disbursement of the monies appropriated by the Council from this fund upon written requisition of the Department Director, or designee. Expenditures from this trust shall not exceed actual revenues received at any time. (Ord. 90-615-283, § 2; Ord. 2003-876-E, § 12.2; Ord. 2004-785-E, § 11.8; Ord. 2006-422-E, § 60; Ord. 2010-527-E, § 1; Ord. 2011-669-E, § 1; Ord. 2016-140-E , § 16) Editor's note— Ordinance 2007-839-E, § 18, authorized updated department/division names pursuant to reorganization. Note— Former § 110.358.