Animal hoarding is addressed through Clackamas County's minimum-care standards for dogs and through Oregon's animal-neglect statutes. A Hearings Officer can suspend a person's right to own or keep any animal for up to five years, and the state prosecutes cruelty and neglect.
Clackamas County Code Title 5 requires every dog owner to meet detailed 'minimum care' standards - adequate food, potable water, shelter, bedding, veterinary care and space (CCC 5.01.020(A)(21)) - and multiple-dog situations trigger inspections. On finding a violation, a Hearings Officer may, under CCC 5.01.080(B)(1)(a), suspend the owner's right to own or keep any animal in Clackamas County for up to five years, order restitution, and impose conditions. The county code expressly leaves crimes of abuse, neglect and abandonment - the core of hoarding cases - to investigation and prosecution under Oregon state law (ORS Chapter 167). So hoarding is tackled jointly: county licensing/care enforcement plus state animal-neglect prosecution.
A Hearings Officer may suspend the right to keep any animal for up to five years and order restitution and euthanasia; criminal animal neglect, abuse and abandonment are charged under Oregon law (ORS Chapter 167), which the county code defers
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