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4.390 Im oundment - Redem tion and Sale. 41} Redemption of an impounded animal shall be made by exhibiting satisfactory proof of ownership and by paying the following required fees and charges: ~a} Impoundment fee; fib} Daily care fee; ~c} License and rabies vaccination fees, if required; ~d} Medical care fees, i f requi red; and fie} Potentially dangerous dog license fees, i f requi red. ~~} In addition to the requirements of subsection 4.3901}, a dog that has been classified as potentially dangerous shall not be released until the owner presents to the director sufficient evidence of compliance with the restrictions imposed by section 4.445. The owner shall have ten days from the time he/she receives the impoundment notice in which to comply with the potentially dangerous dog restrictions. No dog impounded because of level 5 behavior shall be released until the completion of any appeal requested by the owner of the dog pursuant to section 4.440. ~3} Impounded animals may be sold, adapted or destroyed after the appl ~ cabl a hot d ~ ng time . ~4} When an animal is sold or adopted out by the animal regulation authority, the purchaser shall pay any required license and rabies vaccina- tion fees. ~5} No impoundment charge shall be made for an animal released after ~a} The municipal court's determination that no violation occurred. fib} A potenti al ly dangerous dog classification i s success- fully appealed. ~6}. No live animal shall be used, sold or given by the animal regu- 1at~on authority far surgical or medical demonstration or research. . ~l} Except as otherwise provided, if after 7~ hours an impounded animal cannot be sold, the animal regulation authority is authorized and empowered tv destroy the animal by any humane method permitted under state 1 aw. ~8} If an animal is adopted ar sold from the animal regulation authority or from any other agency which accepts unwanted ar abandoned ani- mals, the owner must have the animal spayed or neutered within six months from the date of sale if the animal is too young to be spayed or neutered immediately. I f an animal over six months old i s adopted or sold by an agency which accepts unwanted or abandoned animals, the animal shall be spay- ed or neutered within one month after it is turned over to its new owner. The new owner shall not fail to comply with this subsection. ~9} No person who is the owner of an animal shall fail to reclaim it from the animal regulation authority within the time specified in the notification that the animal i s ready to be released. Section 11. Subsections (1)(a), (2) and (5) of Section 4.395 of the Eugene Code, 1971, are amended, and anew Subsection ~6} added thereto, to provide: Ordinance - 5