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r <br /> (b) Sale or transfer of dog and/or cats. Except as provided below, no pet store shall <br /> display, sell, deliver, offer for sale, barter, auction, give away, or otherwise transfer <br /> or dispose of dogs or cats in the City of Sunny Isles Beach on or after the effective <br /> date of this Section. <br /> (c) Exemptions. This Section shall not apply to: <br /> (1) A person or establishment that sells, delivers offers for sale, barters, <br /> auctions, gives away, or otherwise transfers or disposes of only animals <br /> that were bred and reared on the premises of the person or establishment; <br /> (2) A publicly operated animal control facility or animal shelter; <br /> (3) A private, charitable, nonprofit humane society or animal rescue <br /> organization; or <br /> (4) A publicly operated animal control agency, nonprofit humane society, or <br /> nonprofit animal rescue organization that operates out of or in connection <br /> with a pet store. <br /> (d) Certificate of Source <br /> (1) A pet store shall post and maintain in a conspicuous place, on or within <br /> the three feet of each animals' kennel, cage, or enclosure, a certificate o <br /> source of each dog or cat offered for sale or transfer, and shall provide a <br /> copy of such certificate to the purchaser or transferee of any dog or cat <br /> sold or transferred. <br /> (e) Adoption of Shelter and Rescue Animals. Nothing in this Section shall prevent a pet <br /> store or its owner, operator or employees from providing space and appropriate care <br /> for animals owned by a publicly operated animal control agency, nonprofit humane <br /> society, or nonprofit animal rescue agency and maintained at the pet store for the <br /> purpose of adopting those animals to the public. <br /> Section 3. Severability. The provisions of this Ordinance are declared to be severable and <br /> if any section, sentence, clause or phrase of this Ordinance shall for any reason be held to be <br /> invalid or unconstitutional, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining sections, <br /> sentences, clause, and phrases of this Ordinance but they shall remain in effect, it being the <br /> legislative intent that this Ordinance shall stand notwithstanding the invalidity of any part. <br /> Section 4. Inclusion In The Code. It is the intention of the City Commission, and it is hereby <br /> ordained that the provisions of this Ordinance shall become and made a part of the City of Sunny <br /> Isles Beach Code; that the sections of this Ordinance may be renumbered or re-lettered to <br /> accomplish such intentions; and that the word "Ordinance" shall be changed to "Section" or other <br /> appropriate word, as required. <br /> Section 5. Repealer. All ordinances or part of ordinances in conflict herewith be and the <br /> same are hereby repealed <br /> Page 3 of 4 <br />