For the purposes of this chapter the following words and phrases shall have the meaning respectively ascribed to them by this section.
"Animal" means any living creature, domestic or wild, including but not limited to dogs and cats.
"Animal establishment" means any pet shop, grooming shop, auction, performing animal exhibition, kennel, or anima! shelter operated by other than a government agency or veterinary medical facility.
"At large" means any dog when he is off the property of his owner and not under the control of a competent person.
"Bite" or "bitten" means an actual puncture or tear of the skin inflicted by the teeth of an animal.
"Dog officer" means the person or persons employed by the city as its enforcement officer for this chapter.
"Exposed to rabies" means an animal has been bitten by any animal known or believed to be infected with rabies.
"Inoculations, vaccination, vaccination for rabies" means the inoculation of a dog with a vaccine approved by the state Department of Public Health for use in the prevention of rabies.
"Kennel" means any person who:
1. Keeps or maintains five or more dogs and/or cats or combination of eight or more cats and dogs of any age for more than thirty days within any sixty-day period of time; or
2. Engages in the business of breeding, buying, selling or boarding dogs and/or cats, or other animals; or
3. Engages in the training of dogs for any purpose, including guard or sentry purposes.
"Owner" means a person, association, partnership or corporation owning, keeping or harboring animals.
"Person" means an individual, partnership, company or corporation, or any association or institution commonly recognized by law as a unit, or agent or employee of any of the above described.
Person Legally Authorized To Vaccinate Dogs. Dogs and other animals shall be vaccinated for rabies only by a licensed graduate veterinarian.
"Pet shop" means any person, as defined in this section, engaged in the business of buying or selling, at retail, dogs or cats for profit-making purposes.
"Pound" means an animal shelter or other establishment designated by the city administrative authority for the purpose of impounding and caring for animals held under the authority of this chapter.
“Restraint” An animal shall be deemed to be under restraint if on the premises of his owner and unable to run at large because of restrictions of its activities by means of an adequate fence, leash, chain or muzzle, or if accompanied by a responsible person and under that persons direct control.
"Spayed female dog" means a female dog which has been operated upon by a licensed veterinarian to prevent conception, as attested to by a signed certificate that the operation has been performed.
"Vicious animal" means any dog or cat or other animal that constitutes a physical threat to humans or other domestic animals. (Ord. 332 (part), 1985: prior code §§ 10-1-7*, 10-3-1)
* Editor's Note: Ords. 327 and 332 both added prior code sections numbered 10-1-7.