City of Pawtucket, RI
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2023-12-20
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Part I: Administrative Legislation
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Chapter 50 Officers and Employees
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Article XIII Animal Control Officer
- The Charter
- Ch C Charter
- Part I: Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 3 Administration of Government
- Ch 7 Bills and Claims
- Ch 11 Boards and Commissions
- Ch 22 Committees
- Ch 26 Courts
- Ch 30 Defense and Indemnification
- Ch 35 Expenditures
- Ch 40 Funds
- Ch 50 Officers and Employees
- Ch 50 Art XIII Animal Control Officer
- § 50-34 Powers and duties of Animal Control Officer and Assistant Animal Control Officer.
- § 50-35 Duty at Dog Pound.
- § 50-36 Holidays; vacations.
- § 50-37 Duties of Assistant Animal Control Officer; holidays and vacations.
- Ch 59 Pensions
- Ch 63 Personnel Policies
- Ch 76 Real Property Transactions
- Ch 80 Records
- Ch 84 Referenda Questions
- Ch 88 Salaries and Compensation
- Ch 90 Collective Bargaining Agreements
- Ch 92 Training Schools
- Part II: General Legislation
- Ch 100 Air Pollution
- Ch 104 Alarm Systems
- Ch 108 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 112 Amusements
- Ch 116 Animals
- Ch 124 Bicycles
- Ch 128 Bingo
- Ch 130 Body Works Services
- Ch 132 Brush, Grass and Weeds
- Ch 136 Building Construction
- Ch 147 Buildings, Moving of
- Ch 151 Buildings, Numbering of
- Ch 156 Business Deliveries
- Ch 158 Business Registration
- Ch 162 Cemeteries
- Ch 167 Circuses and Carnivals
- Ch 173 Curfew
- Ch 176 Deeds, Recording of
- Ch 182 Drugs
- Ch 186 Electrical Standards
- Ch 193 Entertainment
- Ch 198 Excavations
- Ch 200 Exterior Lighting
- Ch 202 Fees
- Ch 206 Firearms
- Ch 208 Fire Lanes
- Ch 210 Fire Prevention
- Ch 218 Food Establishments
- Ch 222 Fortune Telling
- Ch 231 Hazardous Materials
- Ch 235 Heating Equipment
- Ch 243 HIV Testing
- Ch 247 Housing Standards
- Ch 251 Secondhand Shops, Junkyards, Junk Dealers and Metal Recyclers
- Ch 260 Licensing
- Ch 263 Littering
- Ch 266 Loitering
- Ch 274 Mechanical Standards
- Ch 282 Newspapers and Magazines
- Ch 286 Noise
- Ch 288 Nonresidential Structures
- Ch 290 Nuisances
- Ch 293 P.T.E. Program
- Ch 294 Parks and Playgrounds
- Ch 298 Peace and Good Order
- Ch 302 Peddling and Soliciting
- Ch 306 Plumbing
- Ch 313 Poles and Wires
- Ch 317 Private Detectives
- Ch 319 Property Classification
- Ch 321 Refrigerators, Abandoned
- Ch 325 Rental Property
- Ch 329 Sales, Special
- Ch 335 Sewers
- Ch 341 (Reserved)
- Ch 345 Smoking
- Ch 347 Solid Waste
- Ch 351 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 355 Subsidized Housing
- Ch 360 Tattoo Parlors
- Ch 363 Taxation
- Ch 364 Telecommunications
- Ch 365 Tobacco and Snuff
- Ch 367 Towing
- Ch 371 Trees
- Ch 375 Utility Rights-Of-Way
- Ch 379 Vehicle Repair Shops
- Ch 383 Vehicles, Abandoned and Nonoperational
- Ch 388 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 392 Vehicles, Removal of
- Ch 396 Vending Machine Services
- Ch 401 Water
- Ch 410 Zoning
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
There shall be an Animal Control Officer and
Assistant Animal Control Officer who shall have all the powers given
and perform all the duties required by the ordinances of the City
of Pawtucket, statutes of the State of Rhode Island and rules and
regulations promulgated or which may be promulgated by the City Council,
except that the Assistant Animal Control Officer shall not carry firearms.
[1]
Editor's Note: Original Sections 1 and 2 which
immediately preceded this section and dealt with the repeal of certain
ordinances and election of the Animal Control Officer and Assistant
in February by Council after its organization, were deleted 7-25-1996
by Ch. No. 2420.
The Animal Control Officer shall be required
to be on duty at the Dog Pound five days a week, Monday through Friday,
between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. On Saturday, the Animal
Control Officer shall be at the Dog Pound from 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
and shall answer all emergency calls. The Animal Control Officer shall
answer all emergency calls on Sunday, but need not be present at the
Dog Pound.
The Animal Control Officer shall have 11 paid
holidays. Said holidays are enumerated in the Personnel Rules and
Regulations of the City of Pawtucket.[1] The Animal Control Officer shall answer all emergency
calls on said holidays. The Animal Control Officer shall have two
weeks vacation with pay.
[1]
Editor's Note: The Personnel Rules and Regulations
are on file in the office of the Personnel Director.
A.Â
The Assistant Animal Control Officer shall be required
to be on duty 40 hours a week. This duty shall include both patrolling
the streets of the City of Pawtucket so as to provide coverage when
the Animal Control Officer is not on duty and a general cleanup operation
at the City Dog Pound.
B.Â
The Assistant Animal Control Officer shall have all
holidays as enumerated in the Personnel Rules and Regulations of the
City of Pawtucket. The Assistant Animal Control Officer shall answer
all emergency calls on such holidays. The Assistant Animal Control
Officer shall have two weeks vacation with pay.
