For the purpose of this title, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
A. AGGRESSIVE ANIMAL. Any animal that has bitten a person or domestic animal without provocation or that has a known history of attacking persons or domestic animals without provocation.
B. ANIMAL.
A mammal, bird, reptile, or amphibian.
C. ANIMAL CONTROL OFFICER.
Persons appointed by the city to enforce the provisions of this title and applicable state and federal laws, including police officers as necessary. Animal control officers may commence an action or proceeding before a court for any violation of a state statute or local ordinance relating to rabies and animal control, which occurs within the city.
D. ANIMAL SHELTER.
Any establishment authorized by the city for the confinement, maintenance, safekeeping, and control of animals that come into the custody of an animal control officer.
E. AT LARGE.
An animal being neither confined by an enclosure nor physically restrained by a leash.
F. COYOTE.
A wolf like carnivorous animal of the species Canis latrans.
G. CRUEL MISTREATMENT.
To torture or otherwise inflict unnecessary serious physical injury on an animal or kill an animal in a manner that causes protracted suffering to the animal.
H. CRUEL NEGLECT.
To fail to provide an animal with necessary food, water or shelter.
I. HANDLER.
A law enforcement officer or any other person who has successfully completed a course of training prescribed by the person’s agency or the service animal owner and who used a specially trained animal under the direction of the person’s agency or the service animal owner.
J. LIVESTOCK.
Horses, mules, burros, asses, cattle, sheep, goats, swine, pigs, fowl (domestic and/or wild, male and/or female, singular and/or plural, including egg producing poultry), and equine.
K. OWNER.
A person(s) who has possession of, harbors, is in charge of, is in control of, keeps, or maintains any animal within the city.
L. SERVICE ANIMAL. Any dog or miniature horse that is individually trained or in training to do work or perform tasks for the benefit of an individual with a disability, including a physical, sensory, psychiatric, intellectual or other mental disability. SERVICE ANIMAL does not include other species of animals, whether wild or domestic or trained or untrained.
M. STRAY DOG. Any dog three months of age or older running at large that is not wearing a valid license tag.
N. VACCINATION. The administration of an approved anti-rabies vaccine to animals by a veterinarian.
O. VICIOUS ANIMAL. Any animal that has a propensity to attack, to cause injury to or to otherwise endanger the safety of human beings without provocation, or that has been so declared after a hearing before a justice of the peace or a city magistrate.
P. WORKING ANIMAL. A horse or dog that is used by a law enforcement agency, that is specially trained for law enforcement work and that is under the control of a handler.
(Ord. 15-1136, § 1, passed 8-25-2015; Ord. 14-1121, § 1, passed 12-9-2014; Ord. 12-1078, passed 6-12-2012; Ord. 16-1161, passed 9-13-2016)