Sedgwick County has no ordinance using the word "hoarding," but hoarding conditions are reached through its cruelty and nuisance rules. Failing to provide adequate food, water, shelter, exercise and care is cruelty to animals under sec. 5-191, and animal control may seize animals showing evidence of cruelty.
Sec. 5-191 defines cruelty to animals to include "having physical custody of any animal and failing to provide such food, potable water, protection from the elements, opportunity for exercise and other care as is needed for the health or well-being of such kind of animal" — the core of hoarding neglect. Sec. 5-192 authorizes an officer to take custody of an animal that shows evidence of cruelty. Overcrowded conditions also fall under sec. 5-161, which treats animals causing odors, insect or rodent infestations, or safety hazards as a maintained nuisance. Together these give animal control authority to intervene, seize animals and require abatement in unincorporated Sedgwick County.
Cruelty (including neglect through hoarding) is a chapter 5 violation; officers may seize affected animals under sec. 5-192, and courts may fix fines up to $500 and order abatement or forfeiture.
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