§ 3013f

(a) 'Abandoned/free-roaming homeless/stray/unwanted animal' — A cat or dog with no known owner or not wanted by its owner or that may be deserted by its owner. (b) 'Administrator' — Department of Health and Social Services. (c) 'Animal control agency' — Any state, county or municipally authorized animal control agency. (d) 'Animal shelter' — A public or private facility which includes a physical structure that provides temporary or permanent shelter to stray, abandoned, abused, or owner-surrendered animals. (e) 'Cat' — A member of the genus and species known as felis catus. (f) 'Dog' — A member of the genus and species known as canis familiaris. (g) 'Ear-tip' — The removal of approximately a quarter-inch off the tip of the cat's left ear while the cat is anesthetized. (h) 'Feral cat' — A cat that: (1) Is born in the wild or is the offspring of an owned or feral cat and which may not be socialized, or (2) Is a formerly-owned cat that has been abandoned and is no longer socialized. (i) [Repealed.] (j) 'Free-roaming cat caretaker' — A person who provides shelter, medical care, or food to 1 or more feral or free-roaming cats lacking discernible owner

and is no longer socialized. (i) [Repealed.] (j) 'Free-roaming cat caretaker' — A person who provides shelter, medical care, or food to 1 or more feral or free-roaming cats lacking discernible owner identification, and works to reduce colony numbers by working to spay and neuter the animals within their specific colony or colonies. Free-roaming cat caretakers are not owners. (k) [Repealed.] (l) 'Owner' — Any person, firm, partnership, association or corporation owning, keeping or harboring a cat, dog or other animal. (m) 'Program' — The mandatory pre-adoption sterilization and rabies inoculation program established by and set forth in this subchapter for cats and dogs. (n) 'Spay/neuter' — To sterilize a female animal by removing the ovaries or to castrate a male animal by removing the testicles or by FDA-approved pharmaceutical sterilization. 75 Del. Laws, c. 326, § 1; 76 Del. Laws, c. 284, § 1; 79 Del. Laws, c. 377, § 2; 81 Del. Laws, c. 450, § 2;