273.400. Definitions.
Definitions.
273.400. As used in sections 273.400 to 273.405, thefollowing words mean:
(1) "Adopter", a person who is legally competent to enterinto a contract and who is adopting or buying a dog or cat from areleasing agency;
(2) "Adult animal", any dog or cat that has reached the ageof one hundred eighty days or six months or more;
(3) "Releasing agency", an animal pound, shelter, humaneorganization, or animal control agency, whether public orprivate, but not including an individual who occasionally rendershumane assistance or shelter in his* home to a dog or cat;
(4) "Sterilization", the surgical removal of thereproductive organs of a dog or cat in order to render the animalunable to reproduce, or the use of an approved serum which willpermanently render the animal unable to reproduce.
(L. 1992 S.B. 636 § 7)*Word "their" appears in original rolls.