Fees

The City of Columbia is committed to providing public health services that prevent epidemics and the spread of disease, protect against environmental hazards, promote healthy behaviors, prevent injuries and illness, assure the quality and accessibility of health services, monitor the health of the population, provide social services and promote and protect civil rights.

Animal Control Fees

Impoundment/Boarding Fee:

$10 per day or part of day AND
$20 impoundment fee for each and every impoundment

License Fee:

For each domestic cat or dog 3 months to 12 months of age, and for each neutered domestic cat or dog of any age kept, harbored or owned within the City of Columbia
("Neutered" includes both male and female animals irreversibly rendered incapable of reproduction by surgical or chemical procedure when such is verified in writing by the animal owner):

$5 - for any time not to exceed one year
$10 - for any period greater than one year but not to exceed two years
$15 - for any period greater than two years but not to exceed three years

Each intact domestic cat or dog over the age of twelve months ("Intact" includes both male and female animals not certified in writing by the owner to have been irreversibly chemically or surgically rendered incapable of reproduction):

$15 - for any time not to exceed one year
$30 - for any period greater than one year but not to exceed two years
$45 - for any period greater than two years but not to exceed three years

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