Clark County has no cat leash law and no fixed limit on the number of cats. Cats are covered by general nuisance, licensing, and cruelty rules, and the county sponsors a community-cat (trap-neuter-return) program for feral colonies.
The county's leash provisions (Chapter 8.15) apply to dogs, not cats, so cats are not required to be leashed. There is no numeric cap on cats in the code. Cats are still "domestic animals" under CCC 8.01.020(13) and subject to the nuisance rules of CCC 8.11.060 (for example, damaging property or entering food-service areas) and the cruelty/minimum-care rules of 8.11.070. CCC 8.01.020(11) authorizes a community-cat program under which feral and community cats are sterilized, vaccinated for rabies, ear-tipped, and returned to where they congregate; returning such cats is exempted from the code's abandonment prohibition.
There is no cat-leash penalty. A cat that creates a documented nuisance under CCC 8.11.060 can be abated; cruelty or neglect is a misdemeanor under CCC 8.11.070 (up to $1,000).
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