For the purpose of this title, the following words and phrases will be construed to have the meanings set forth in this chapter unless it is apparent from the context that a different meaning is intended.
(A) “Animal Control Board” means the board comprised of the Chief of Police or his or her designee, and two other city department administrative managers designated by the Chief of Police, or their designees.
(B) “Animal Control Bureau” means the Animal Control Bureau of the City of Corona, a division of the Corona Police Department.
(C) “Animal control officer” means those officers, including law enforcement or other peace officers, appointed, designated or directed by the Chief of Police to enforce the provisions of this title.
(D) “Business days” shall be as defined in Food and Agricultural Code § 31108, which currently means those days of the week when the city animal shelter is open to the public for business for at least four hours, excluding state holidays.
(E) “Chief of Police” means the Chief of Police of the Corona Police Department, or his or her designees.
(F) “Commercial kennel” means any place where three or more dogs are kept for the purpose of boarding, breeding, training, marketing or kept for hire.
(G) “Complaining party” means that person or those persons who contact the Animal Control Bureau to report a potential violation of this title.
(H) “County animal control department” means the Riverside County Department of Animal Services, or such equivalent department as may be established by Riverside County.
(I) “Dog” means and includes members of the species canis familiaris; it excludes other members of the family canidae.
(J) “Dog park area” means a posted leash optional area of a city public park, as designated by the City Council.
(K) “Dog tag” means a metallic tag issued by the Animal Control Bureau at the time of licensing of any dog.
(L) “Immediate family” means spouses, registered domestic partners and dependent children.
(M) “Impounded” means having been received into the custody of the Animal Control Bureau, as authorized under the provisions of this title.
(N) “Keeper” means any person keeping, harboring or having possession, charge, custody or control over any animal, except a veterinarian duly licensed and practicing as such and having in his or her possession or control an animal or animals for the purpose of treatment or care.
(O) “Noisy animal” means any animal or animals maintained on the same premises or location whose excessive, unrelenting or habitual barking, howling, crying or other noises or sounds annoy or become offensive to a resident or residents in the vicinity, thereby disturbing the peace of the neighborhood or causing excessive discomfort to any reasonable person of normal sensitivity to hearing such sounds. This definition excludes an official police dog while on duty.
(P) “Official police dog” means any dog trained for law enforcement purposes used by the Corona Police Department or any other duly authorized law enforcement agency for such purpose.
(Q) “Owner” means any person who is the lawful owner of an animal.
(R) “Person” means a firm, partnership, corporation, trust or any association of persons.
(S) “Potentially dangerous dog” means the following:
(1) A potentially dangerous dog shall include:
(a) Any dog which, when unprovoked, on at least one occasion within the prior 36 month period, engages in any behavior that requires a defensive action by any person to prevent bodily injury when the person and the dog are off the property of the owner or keeper of the dog;
(b) Any dog which, when unprovoked, bites a person causing an injury which is less severe injury than a “severe injury” as defined in § 6.04.020 of this title;
(c) Any dog which, when unprovoked, on at least one occasion within the prior 36 month period, has killed, seriously bitten, inflicted injury or otherwise caused injury attacking a domestic animal off the property of the owner or keeper of the dog.
(2) A potentially dangerous dog shall not include:
(a) Any dog which has inflicted injury or damage to a person committing a willful trespass or other tort upon the premises occupied by the owner or keeper of the dog;
(b) Any dog which has inflicted injury or damage to a person teasing, tormenting, abusing or assaulting the dog;
(c) Any dog which has inflicted injury or damage to a person committing or attempting to commit a crime;
(d) Any dog which has inflicted injury or damage to a person while protecting or defending a person within the dog’s immediate vicinity from an unjustified attack or assault;
(e) Any dog which has inflicted injury or damage to a domestic animal which was teasing, tormenting, abusing or assaulting the dog;
(f) Any dog which has inflicted injury or damage to a domestic animal while the dog was working as a hunting dog, herding dog or predator control dog on the property of, or under the control of, its owner or keeper, and the damage or injury was to a type of domestic animal appropriate to the dog’s work.
(3) Any actions or other qualities described herein which may qualify a dog as a potentially dangerous dog may occur either in or outside the jurisdiction of the City of Corona.
(T) “Public property” means any publicly owned property in the city, including any of the following: public parks, public streets, public alleyways, public trails, public access ways, public parking lots, public passageways, public rights-of-way, publicly owned landscaped areas or greenbelts, sidewalks, curbs, public educational institutions, including properties owned by the Corona-Norco Unified School District, or other government owned or controlled properties located within the city.
(U) “Quarantine” means the isolation of an animal in a substantial enclosure so that the animal cannot be subject to contact with other animals or unauthorized persons.
(V) “Rabies” means the rabies virus or hydrophobia.
(W) “Responsible party” means, in addition to the owner or keeper of the animal, any person who owns, controls or is in charge of the real property, premises or other location where an animal in violation of this title resides or is housed or on which a violation of this title occurs. If any such person is a minor, the parent(s) or guardian(s) of such minor shall be a responsible party. In a given incident enforced under this title, there can be more than one responsible party.
(X) “Service dog” means any dog that is individually trained and used to do work or perform tasks for people with disabilities. Dogs whose sole function is to provide comfort or emotional support do not qualify as a service dog.
(Y) “Severe injury” means any physical injury to a human being that results in one or more muscle tears or disfiguring lacerations or requires multiple sutures or corrective or cosmetic surgery.
(Z) “Unlicensed dog” means any dog for which the license for the current year has not been paid or to which the license tag for the current year is not attached.
(AA) “Vaccination” and “vaccination against rabies” means the inoculation of the dog at four months of age or older with canine chick-embryo origin modified live-virus rabies vaccine or canine nerve-tissue killed-virus rabies vaccine in a manner prescribed by the California State Department of Public Health or any other vaccine prescribed by such Department.
(AB) “Vicious dog” means the following:
(1) A vicious dog shall include:
(a) Any dog seized under Cal. Penal Code § 599aa and upon the sustaining of a conviction of the owner or keeper under Penal Code § 597.5(a);
(b) Any dog which, when unprovoked, in an aggressive manner inflicts severe injury on or kills a human being; or
(c) Any dog previously determined to be, and currently listed as, a potentially dangerous dog which, after its owner or keeper has been notified of this determination, engages in any potentially dangerous dog behavior, as defined in this § 6.04.020, or is maintained in violation of either § 6.14.060 (keeping and controlling potentially dangerous dogs) or § 6.14.050 (licensing and vaccinating potentially dangerous or vicious dogs - designation maintained in registration records) of this title.
(2) A vicious dog shall not include:
(a) Any dog which has inflicted injury or damage to a person committing a willful trespass or other tort upon the premises occupied by the owner or keeper of the dog;
(b) Any dog which has inflicted injury or damage to a person teasing, tormenting, abusing or assaulting the dog;
(c) Any dog which has inflicted injury or damage to a person committing or attempting to commit a crime;
(d) Any dog which has inflicted injury or damage to a person while protecting or defending a person within the dog’s immediate vicinity from an unjustified attack or assault;
(e) Any dog which has inflicted injury or damage to a domestic animal which was teasing, tormenting, abusing or assaulting the dog;
(f) Any dog which has inflicted injury or damage to a domestic animal while the dog was working as a hunting dog, herding dog or predator control dog on the property of, or under the control of, its owner or keeper, and the damage or injury was to a type of domestic animal appropriate to the dog’s work.
(3) Any actions or other qualities described herein which may qualify a dog as a vicious dog may occur either in or outside the jurisdiction of the City of Corona.
(Ord. 3170 § 2 (part), 2014.)