What documents are required to open an animal shelter?

Let's consider what actions need to be taken to open an animal shelter. Based on this, you will know what documents are needed for this.

1. Establishment of a legal entity or an individual entrepreneur.

In order to conduct economic activity, as well as to maintain tax records, you need to register a legal entity, or register as an individual entrepreneur. You can read more about the registration procedure in the Law "On State Registration of Legal Entities and Individual Entrepreneurs". For registration, it is necessary to submit a set of documents to the state registrar, which includes a registration card, as well as for legal entities - founding documents: founding minutes, statutes, etc., for individual entrepreneurs - a copy of the person's passport and tax payer card (identification code).

1. Obtaining a land plot, changing its purpose, making changes to the General Plan of the settlement.

A plot of land for a shelter must be purchased or leased. To do this, it is necessary to find out who is the owner of such a plot of land. If the plot of land is privately owned by a legal entity or an individual, it is necessary to initiate the conclusion of a Purchase and Sale Agreement (in case of purchasing a plot of land) or a Lease Agreement (in case of a desire to use a plot of land) with this person. If the plot of land is communally or state-owned, it is necessary to submit an application to the relevant local council (if the plot is communally owned) or district or regional state administration (if the plot is state-owned) with a request to provide in ownership or use of a plot of land. At the same time, it is necessary to indicate the purpose for which the land plot will be used, to provide justification why such a land plot should be allocated, its cadastral number, area. However, it should be remembered that land plots designated as agricultural lands and defense lands cannot be obtained for shelter. Given the specificity of such an institution as an animal shelter, its placement in a settlement should be indicated on the General Plan of the corresponding settlement. Therefore, if the land plot will be placed on the territory of the settlement after its ownership or use, it is necessary to submit an application for inclusion of the shelter in the General Plan of the settlement. The project of the shelter to be built must be added to the application. The question of making appropriate changes to the General Plan is adopted at the next session of the relevant local council.

1. Shelter construction.

The procedure for approving the construction of shelters is quite simple and does not require examinations and lengthy approvals from state authorities. To start construction, it is necessary to obtain a construction passport and register a declaration on the start of construction. The construction passport is issued by the city planning and architecture authority. The deadline for obtaining a construction passport is 10 working days, that is, two weeks. After receiving the construction passport, no later than 1 (one) calendar day before the start of construction, the person must submit a Declaration on the start of construction to the architectural and construction control body in the relevant territory.

1. Approval of the Regulations on the asylum and the hours of operation of the asylum.

The Asylum Agreement must describe all the processes that take place during the operation of the Asylum. Such Regulations must be agreed with local executive authorities, local sanitary-epidemiological and veterinary services. The detailed procedure for such coordination is not established in the legislation, so in each specific case it is advisable to contact the relevant body for clarification.

1. Obtaining the conclusion of the sanitary-epidemiological service and declaring compliance with fire safety requirements.

In order for the shelter to start working as a business entity after carrying out all the above-mentioned procedures, it is necessary to obtain the conclusions of the sanitary-epidemiological service and submit to the territorial branch of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Ukraine a declaration on the compliance of the premises with fire safety requirements.

To obtain a conclusion of the SES, you should apply to the relevant territorial branch of the Sanitary and Epidemiological Service with a request for an inspection and to obtain a conclusion on the compliance of the premises with all requirements.

Also, a private examination should be conducted to obtain a conclusion of the shelter's compliance with fire safety regulations.

From the moment of receiving the conclusion of the SES and submitting the declaration to the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Ukraine, and subject to compliance with all the conditions described above, the shelter can actually function.

It should also be remembered that during the work of the shelter, it can be visited with checks from all the listed bodies that participated in the approval of its work. Therefore, the conditions that apply to the shelter must be observed throughout its operation.