Santa Clara County Code Title C requires sterilization of dogs and cats released from county shelters, mirroring California Food & Agricultural Code §30503. Cities such as San Jose and Sunnyvale extend a broader spay-neuter mandate to all owned dogs and cats over four months.
Under SCC Title C and California Food & Agricultural Code §30503, every dog or cat redeemed or adopted from a county or city shelter must be spayed or neutered before release, with limited medical-waiver and breed-show exceptions. Several SCC cities go further: San Jose Municipal Code chapter 7.04 requires sterilization of all owned dogs and cats over four months, with intact-permit options. Sunnyvale, Santa Clara, and other cities have parallel ordinances. Unincorporated SCC has no all-pets sterilization mandate, only the shelter-release rule. Intact-permit fees support low-cost spay-neuter clinics run through SCC Animal Services partners.
Releasing an unsterilized animal from a shelter without a medical waiver violates Title C and state law. In broader-rule cities, intact pets without permits face citations near one hundred dollars, rising on repeats and triggering clinic referrals.
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