Proposed law banning the feeding of stray cats aimed at landlords and property owners
NORWICH – A proposed Norwich City ordinance to ban the feeding of stray cats will be primarily aimed at landlords and property owners.
The law would make feeding any stray or wild animal a fine-able offense, with the first ticket costing $50, the second $100, and every following ticket issued within a year of the second would be $200. The tickets will only be issued to property owners.
Tenants that refuse to comply with the law would have their landlord issued a ticket, not the person committing the offense, officials have said. If those tenants are in violation of leases, they could then face penalization by landlords.
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I will still feed them,I'm not going to starve an animal at all.As I stated before time to get rid of this council and start over. They have made the City ofNorwich look bad , with their stupidity
The city of Norwich has become a joke. How about elected officials doing job they were elected to do instead of taking food away from starving animals and going after landlords who have no control of a tenant trying to do a good deed. What about attention to a drug riddled city, taxes out of control and on and on. I have watched Norwich go down the drain for many years very sad. There still a lot of good here but it's fading fast.
(continued from previous comment)... Knee jerk solution to the problem. Starving animals because they are homeless is about the worst thing I've ever heard. Forcing them out of the city into the town to make it someone else's problem is like the prisons downstate giving one way bus tickets to Chenango County to their releasee's. Norwich is going down the toilet real fast. Drugs, sex crimes, murders, rapes, bad schools, corrupt government, stores closing, now animal cruelty. I'm ashamed to call Norwich home.
This is not looking good for the city of Norwich or its officials. Rather than come up with a thoughtful solution, they have taken the knee jerk reaction