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MISSOURI STATUTES AND CODES
273.400. Definitions.
273.400. As used in sections 273.400 to 273.405, thefollowing words mean:
(1) "Adopter", a person who is legally competent to enterinto a contract and who is adopting or buying a dog or cat from areleasing agency;
(2) "Adult animal", any dog or cat that has reached the ageof one hundred eighty days or six months or more;
(3) "Releasing agency", an animal pound, shelter, humaneorganization, or animal control agency, whether public orprivate, but not including an individual who occasionally rendershumane assistance or shelter in his* home to a dog or cat;
(4) "Sterilization", the surgical removal of thereproductive organs of a dog or cat in order to render the animalunable to reproduce, or the use of an approved serum which willpermanently render the animal unable to reproduce.
(L. 1992 S.B. 636 ยง 7)*Word "their" appears in original rolls.