                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

CAPTURING, CONFINING, AND EUTHANIZING COMPANION ANIMALS BY ANIMAL CONTROL
OFFICERS; APPROVAL OF DRUGS USED (§ 3.2-6562)

It shall be the duty of the animal control officer or any other officer to
capture and confine any companion animal of unknown ownership found running at
large on which the license fee has not been paid. Following the expiration of
the holding period prescribed in § 3.2-6546, the animal control officer or
other officer may deliver such companion animal to any person in his
jurisdiction who will pay the required license fee on such companion animal.
Prior to disposition by euthanasia or otherwise, all the provisions of §
3.2-6546 shall have been complied with. For all companion animals not otherwise
disposed of as provided for in this chapter, it shall be the duty of the animal
control officer or any other officer to euthanize such companion animals. Any
person, animal control officer, or other officer euthanizing a companion animal
under this chapter shall cremate, bury, or sanitarily dispose of the same.
		All drugs and drug administering equipment used by animal control officers or
other officers to capture companion animals pursuant to this chapter shall have
been approved by the State Veterinarian.

HISTORY: 1984, c. 492, § 29-213.88; 1987, c. 488, § 3.1-796.119; 1991, c. 348;
1997, c. 159; 1998, c. 817; 2008, c. 860.