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contractor, providing that person meets the animal control contractor's adoption qualifications, offer the cat for adoption, or euthanize the cat, if not sooner recovered by the owner. An owner wishing to recover the cat shall pay a daily impoundment fee of $2.50 for each full day, or fraction thereof, that the cat is held by the animal control contractor. (c) In the case of any cat not wearing identification released to the animal control contractor, the animal control contractor shall hold the cat for not less than forty-eight hours, after which time the animal control contractor may return the cat to the person who had released the cat to the animal control contractor, providing that person meets the animal control contractor's adoption qualifications, offer the cat for adoption, or euthanize the cat, if not sooner recovered by a person claiming ownership. If a person claiming ownership seeks to recover the cat, the person shall pay a daily impoundment fee of $2.50 for each full day, or fraction thereof, that the cat is held at the animal control contractor. (d) Any cat released to the animal control contractor with a "notched ear," indicative of a sterilized feral cat, shall be held at the animal control contractor for not less than nine days, after which time the animal control contractor may return the cat to the person who had released the cat to the animal control contractor, providing that person meets the animal control contractor's adoption qualifications, offer the cat for adoption, or euthanize the cat, if not sooner recovered by a person claiming ownership. If a person claiming ownership seeks to recover the cat, the person shall pay a daily impoundment fee of $2.50 for each full day, or fraction thereof, that the cat is held at the animal control contractor. (e) If a cat released to the animal control contractor is not recovered by the owner, the person who had released the cat to the animal control contractor shall have the right of first refusal for permanent custody and ownership of the cat, providing that person meets the animal control contractor's adoption qualifications. Section 4-37. Sterilization of cats. It shall be unlawful for a cat owner to allow a cat over the age of six months to be at large unless the cat has been sterilized by a veterinarian. Section 4-38. Enforcement. An impounded cat for which identification is not maintained by an owner may not be released by the animal control contractor to a person claiming ownership of the cat until the owner complies with the identification requirements of this article. If an impounded cat, with or without identification, has not been sterilized, the person claiming ownership may be cited by an officer of the animal control contractor for a violation of section 4-37. The penalty for violating section 4-37 shall be waived upon proof of sterilization of the cat by a veterinarian furnished to the animal control contractor within thirty days after the date the citation was issued. 13