For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
DANGEROUS ANIMAL OR REPTILE. That which, because of its nature or physical makeup, is capable of inflicting serious physical injury or death to human beings or other animals, including, but not limited to all venomous animals and venomous snakes; all members of the ape family, including, but not limited to apes, baboons, chimpanzees, gorillas, monkeys and orangutans; alligators; crocodiles; all species of bear; piranha fish; any member of the cat family, excluding house cats, including, but not limited to lynxes, lions, tigers, cougars, leopards and panthers.
LIVESTOCK. Sheep, cattle, hogs, horses, jacks, mules, chickens, poultry or other animal or bird commonly kept on a farm.
PERSON. Any natural person, association, partnership, organization or corporation.
POSSESS, HARBOR, KEEP, MAINTAIN, DISPLAY or CONTROL. To have legal title to or be in the actual or constructive possession, custody or control of or the keeping, displaying or maintaining of any wild, exotic, dangerous or undomesticated animal or reptile in the City.
PUBLIC PLACE. A place to which the public or a substantial group of persons has access and includes, but is not limited to streets, highways, alleys, sidewalks and all public rights-of-way, transportation facilities, schools, places of amusement, parks, places of business, playgrounds, hallways and lobbies and other portions of apartment houses and condominiums and hotels/motels not constituting a room designed for actual residence. An act shall be deemed to have occurred in a public place if it produces consequences in a public place.
SERIOUS PHYSICAL INJURY. Physical injury which creates a substantial risk of death, or which causes serious and prolonged disfigurement, prolonged impairment of health or prolonged loss or impairment of the function of any bodily organ, as defined in KRS 500.080.
WILD, EXOTIC OR UNDOMESTICATED ANIMAL OR REPTILE. That which is not ordinarily tame or domesticated; not ordinarily amenable to control, restraint or ordinarily accustomed to human cohabitation; that which is of a species not customarily used or owned as an ordinary household pet, but one which would ordinarily be found in a zoo or which would ordinarily be found in the wilderness, including, but not limited to any type of species of constrictor snake, raccoons, ferrets, foxes and skunks, wolves and coyotes.
(1995 Code, § 6.04.010) (Ord. O-94-22, passed 8-8-1994)
Editor’s note:
For definition of serious physical injury to a child 12 years of age or less, see KRS 500.080(15)