For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ANIMAL. Any live vertebrate creature domestic or wild.
KENNEL. Any premises wherein any person engages in the business of boarding, breeding, buying, letting for hire, training-for a fee or selling cats, dogs or any other animal.
OWNER. Any person, partnership or corporation owning, keeping or harboring one or more animals. An animal shall be deemed harbored if it is fed or sheltered for three or more consecutive days.
PET. Any animal kept for pleasure and not denied by state law or by this Code or any ordinance of the town.
PUBLIC NUISANCE. Any animal that:
(1) Runs at large;
(2) Attacks other animals;
(3) Molests passersby or passing vehicles;
(4) Barks, whines or howls in an excessive, continuous or untimely fashion;
(5) Damages private or public property;
(6) Runs at large while in heat;
(7) Trespasses on school grounds;
(8) Leaves excrement waste at any place other than within the boundaries of the owners real estate; or
(9) In any way disrupts the quiet enjoyment of any other citizen in the town.
RESTRAINED ANIMAL. Any animal:
(1) Secured by a leash or led or under the control of a responsible person and obedient to the person’s commands; or
(2) Within the real property limits of its owner.
VICIOUS ANIMAL. An animal that constitutes a physical threat to human beings or other animals. The determination of viciousness shall not be based on a given event. All animals shall be presumed vicious and same shall be a rebuttable presumption subject to proof to the contrary.
WILD ANIMAL. An animal whose species usually:
(1) Lives in the wild; or
(2) Is not domesticated.
(Ord. 11-08, passed 9-12-2011)