• Establishes the shelter’s primary role as saving the lives of animals
• Declares that saving lives and protecting public safety are compatible
• Establishes a definition of No Kill that includes all savable animals including feral cats
• Protects rabbits and other animals, as well as dogs and cats
• Requires shelters to spay/neuter animals before adoption
• Makes it illegal for a shelter to kill an animal if a rescue group or No Kill shelter is willing to save that animal
• Requires shelters to provide animals with fresh food, fresh water, environmental enrichment, exercise, veterinary care, and cleanliness
• Requires shelters to have fully functioning adoption programs including offsite adoptions, use of the internet to promote their animals, and further mandates that animal control be open seven days per week for adoption
• Prohibits shelters from killing animals based on arbitrary criteria such as breed bans or when alternatives to killing exist
• Requires animal control to allow volunteers to help with fostering, socializing, and assisting with adoptions
• Bans the use of gas chamber
• Requires shelters to be truthful about how many animals they kill and adopt
• Requires shelters to notify people surrendering animals about the likelihood their animal will be killed
• Provides free spay/neuter for all feral cats and for the pets of qualified low income households
• Allows citizens to sue the shelter and compel compliance if shelters fail to do so

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