Conway, AR Animal Ordinances: Cat Rules (2026)
Key Facts
- License fee, altered cat
- $10 per year
- License fee, unaltered cat
- $20 per year
- Exempt
- cats under 4 months old
- Renewal grace period
- 10 days after expiration
- Missing-tag reclaim fee
- $20 added charge
Summary
Every cat kept in the City of Conway, Arkansas must carry a paid city license tag under Conway Municipal Code Section 6.04.12: ten dollars a year if the cat is spayed or neutered, twenty dollars if not, renewed annually and tied to proof of rabies vaccination.
A.Levy of license fee. There is hereby levied and there shall be collected an animal licensing fee in the amount hereinafter provided on each dog or cat owned or kept within the city. Said fee shall be paid to the city or to any authorized licensed veterinarian. ... B.Amount of license fee. For each neutered male or spayed female the levied fee shall be in the amount of ten dollars ($10.00) annually. The fee for each unspayed female or unaltered male shall be twenty dollars ($20.00) annually, except for any animal under four (4) months of age.
Full Breakdown
Section 6.04.12.A levies the license fee on every dog or cat owned or kept in the city, payable to the city directly or to any licensed veterinarian participating in Conway's licensing and spay/neuter program, who keeps two dollars of each fee as compensation for issuing it. Subsection B sets the amount at ten dollars annually for a neutered male or spayed female and twenty dollars for an unaltered animal, with cats under four months old exempt from licensing altogether. No tag can be issued without a veterinarian's certificate showing the cat was vaccinated against rabies within the prior year, and the license stays valid for one year from that vaccination date, with a ten-day grace period after expiration to renew under Subsection E.
Conway does not run a separate feral-colony program in this code; a stray or feral cat found at large in the city is instead handled through the same at-large impoundment process that applies to dogs under Section 6.04.06, and the Animal Welfare Unit can transfer title to an unclaimed cat for adoption after five business days.
Violations & Fines
Keeping an unlicensed cat past the point it should carry a tag exposes the owner to the general Title 6 penalty in Section 6.12.01, a fine of fifty to one thousand dollars with each day treated separately. If an unlicensed or unvaccinated cat is impounded as an at-large animal, reclaiming it under Section 6.04.07 adds a twenty-dollar fee for the missing license tag and another twenty dollars if the rabies tag was also missing, on top of ten dollars per day of boarding, and a second impoundment within eighteen months adds escalating fees up to one hundred dollars for an unaltered cat.
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