Regional Law No. 101-Z “On regulation of some issues related to treatment of animals and granting local self-government bodies some state powers to organize measures on treatment of animals without owners”.

This Regional Law regulates relations arising in connection with the granting to local government of municipal areas of certain state powers to organize activities in the field of handling and treatment of ownerless animals. Local self-government bodies are vested with state powers, which include: (a) catching ownerless animals, including their transportation and immediate transfer to animal shelters; (b) arrangements performed in shelters for animals, including: 1) keeping ownerless animals in shelters; 2) return of lost animals to their owners, as well as the search for new owners of ownerless animals; 3) return of animals without owners, who do not show unmotivated aggression, to their former habitats; 4) accommodation in shelters for animals.