For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
"ABANDONED ANIMALS.” Animals without any identification or apparent ownership as determined by the animal control officers or law enforcement officers.
" ANIMAL." Any live, vertebrate creature, domestic or wild.
"ANIMAL CONTROL OFFICER." Any person designated by the City Manager or commissioned to perform those duties under the laws of the state.
"ANIMAL. SHELTER." Walter M. Crowe Animal Shelter, Camden, South Carolina.
"DANGEROUS ANIMAL."
(1) An animal which meets any of the following:
(a) Which the owner knows, or reasonably should know, has a propensity, tendency or disposition to attack unprovoked, cause injury or otherwise endanger the safety of human beings or domestic animals; or
(b) Which:
1. Makes an unprovoked attack that causes bodily injury or death to a human being or a domestic animal, and the attack occurs in a place other than the place where the animal is confined by a secure fence or cage; or
2. Commits unprovoked acts in a place other than the place where the animal is confined by a secure fence or cage and those acts cause a person to reasonably believe that the animal will attack and cause bodily injury to a human being or a domestic animal.
(c) Which is owned or harbored primarily or in part for the purpose of fighting or is trained for fighting.
(2) “DANGEROUS ANIMAL” does not include:
(a) An animal used exclusively for agricultural purposes; or
(b) An animal which attacks a person who is trespassing or who appears to be trespassing.
"DISEASED." Any deviation from the normal state of health.
"LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER." City police officers.
"OWNER." Any person, partnership or corporation owning, keeping or harboring one or more animals, or person or entity which has a property right in any animal or has an animal in his or her care or acts as its custodian. An animal shall be deemed to be harbored if it is fed or sheltered for ten consecutive days or more.
"PERFORMING ANIMAL EXHIBITION.” Any spectacle, display, act or event other than circuses in which performing animals are used.
"PET." Animal kept for pleasure.
"PUBLIC NUISANCE." Any animal or animals which:
(1) Molests passersby or passing vehicles;
(2) Attacks other animals;
(3) Trespasses on school grounds;
(4) Damages private or public property;
(5) Barks, whines, howls or creates a noisy disturbance in an excessive, continuous or untimely fashion;
(6) Is repeatedly at large.
"RESTRAINT." Any animal secured by a leash or lead, or under the control of a responsible person and obedient to that person's command, or within the real property limits of its owner.
"WILD ANIMAL.” Any live monkey (subhuman primate), raccoon, skunk, fox, poisonous snake, leopard, panther, tiger, lion, lynx or any other animal which presents, or could reasonably be anticipated to present, a life endangering threat to human beings or other animals and which are normally found in the wild state.
('64 Code, § 5-17) (Ord., passed 5-24-83; Am. Ord., passed 3-27-84; Am. Ord., passed 9-9-86; Am. Ord. 09-034, passed 11-24-09; Am. Ord. 10-038, passed 9-14-10) Penalty, see § 90.99