For purposes of this chapter, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise or otherwise defined in Minnesota Statutes section 347.50 the terms defined in this section have the meanings given them:
ANIMAL: | Every nonhuman species of animal, domestic, permitted nondomestic, and inherently dangerous. |
ANIMAL CONTROL AUTHORITY: | By designation, the animal control authority is the Chief of Police or the Chief's designee. |
ANIMAL CONTROL OFFICERS: | Individually and collectively the City's Police Department, the City's Police Chief, the City's police officers, the City's community service officers and other personnel retained by the City or assisting in the enforcement of this chapter. |
COMMERCIAL DAYCARE KENNEL: | Any place where dogs are kept for the primary purpose of commercial pet sitting or "doggie daycare", provided all of the following are met: A. No kennels are allowed in a Residential Zoning District. B. Limited to a maximum of twenty (20) dogs on site at any one time. C. No outdoor runs or kennels allowed. D. The requirement and location of any outside fenced area, if any, shall be determined by the Council. E. Dogs shall be on a leash not greater than sixteen feet (16') and handled by an employee or in an approved outside fenced exercise or kennel area at all times when outside the building during the animal's stay. F. Unless otherwise authorized by the City Council, an employee shall remain on site at all times animals are on the premises including overnight. G. Dog kennels shall allow for outdoor runs or exercised by an employee. H. Designated bathroom area shall be cleaned daily. |
COMMERCIAL KENNEL: | Kennel means a place where four (4) or more dogs over the age of six (6) months are kept for the primary purpose of commercial breeding, keeping, harboring, or selling of dogs. A commercial kennel does not include veterinary hospitals, clinics, or other premises operated by a licensed veterinarian exclusively for the care and treatment of animals. |
DANGEROUS DOG: | As defined in Minnesota Statutes section 347.50. |
DOMESTIC ANIMALS: | Dogs, cats, caged birds, fish, rabbits, domestic ferrets, snakes (nonvenomous and nonconstrictor species), gerbils, hamsters, guinea pigs, white rats or mice. |
FARM ANIMAL AND PERMITTED NONDOMESTIC ANIMAL: | Cows, sheep, pigs, deer, horses, donkeys, chickens, rabbits, goats and other animals if the owner can show the animals are not inherently dangerous. |
GOAT: | An animal in the subspecies of Capra aegagrus hicus. |
GRAZING: | Goats eating vegetation. |
GREAT BODILY HARM: | “Great bodily harm” has the meaning given it under Minnesota Statutes section 609.02, subdivision 8. |
HEARING OFFICER: | An impartial person who may be either an impartial employee of the City or an impartial person retained and appointed by the City to conduct dangerous dog and potentially dangerous dog hearings. |
INHERENTLY DANGEROUS ANIMALS: | Animals other than domestic animals and farm and permitted nondomestic animals, which are inherently dangerous including, but not limited to, wolves, coyotes, bears, snakes (venomous and constrictor species), skunks, cougars, tigers, and any crossbreeds thereof, or crossbreeds with domestic or farm and permitted nondomestic animals. |
KEEP: | To own, stable, harbor, maintain, possess, or act as a custodian or caretaker for an animal. |
KENNEL: | A commercial kennel, commercial daycare kennel or noncommercial kennel. |
NONCOMMERCIAL KENNEL: | Any place where four (4) or more dogs over the age of six (6) months are kept for non-commercial use, such as a dog daycare. |
OWNER: | Any person, firm, corporation, organization, or department possessing, harboring, keeping, having an interest in, or having care, custody, or control of an animal. |
PERSON: | One or more natural persons, a firm, partnership, corporation, or any other entity. |
POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS DOG: | As defined in Minnesota Statutes section 347.50. |
PREMISES: | A building, structure, shelter, or land where an animal is kept or confined. |
PRESCRIBED GRAZING: | The temporary use of goats as a landscape management technique to control the growth of invasive and noxious vegetation at a specific location and for a defined length of time. For the purpose of this definition, goats used for prescribed grazing are not considered pets or farm animals. |
PRESCRIBED GRAZING PERMIT: | A permit issued by the City that allows prescribed grazing within City limits. |
PROPER ENCLOSURE FOR DANGEROUS OR POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS DOGS: | A secure indoor location or a securely enclosed and locked pen or structure suitable to prevent the potentially dangerous dog or dangerous dog from escaping and providing protection from the elements for the animal. A proper enclosure does not include a porch, patio, or any part of a house, garage, or other structure that would allow the potentially dangerous dog or dangerous dog to exit of its own volition, or any house or structure in which windows are open or in which door or window screens are the only obstacles that prevent the potentially dangerous dog or dangerous dog from exiting. |
RUNNING AT LARGE, RUN AT LARGE, OR AT LARGE: | Any animal that is not under restraint. |
UNDER RESTRAINT: | The animal is: a) within a private motor vehicle of a person owning, harboring, or keeping the animal; b) within the boundaries of property owned or leased by the person owning, harboring or keeping the animal; or c) controlled by a chain or leash of a maximum of sixteen feet (16') in length. |
VACCINATION AGAINST RABIES: | The inoculation of a dog, cat, or ferret with a rabies vaccine by a veterinarian duly licensed to practice veterinary medicine. |
VETERINARY HOSPITAL: | A place for the treatment, hospitalization, surgery, care and board of animals and birds under the direction of one or more licensed veterinarians. (Ord. 1367, 4-8-2019, eff. 5-1-2019; amd. Ord. 1416, 6-28-2021) |