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§ 96.04 PROTECTION OF BABY FOWL.
   It is unlawful for any person to sell, or offer for sale, barter or give away, baby chicks, ducklings or other fowls as pets or novelties or to dye, color or otherwise artificially treat baby chicks, ducklings or other fowls in the City. Nothing herein shall be construed to prohibit the display or sale of natural chicks or ducklings in proper brooder facilities by hatcheries or stores engaged in the business of selling the same to be raised for commercial purposes.
(1995 Code, § 6.04.040) Penalty, see § 96.99
§ 96.05 CRUELTY TO FOWL.
   It is unlawful for any person to overcrowd domestic fowl or poultry in any crate, box or other receptacle, or to fail to provide proper food, water, shelter or sanitation for same.
(1995 Code, § 6.04.050) Penalty, see § 96.99
§ 96.06 CRUELTY TO ANIMALS GENERALLY.
   It is unlawful for any person to neglect or cruelly treat or mistreat any animal in any manner or form, or to fail to provide adequate food and shelter for any animal owned or harbored by him or her or to abandon any animal within the City.
(1995 Code, § 6.04.060) Penalty, see § 96.99
§ 96.07 TRAPPING ANIMALS.
   (A)   No person shall set or place any traps or snare or bait the same, upon the lands of or in the waters of any person within the City for the purpose of catching or killing any wild animal. Nothing contained herein shall be deemed to apply to setting traps for vermin in any house or other building.
   (B)   For the purpose of this section, the following definition shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
      TRAPPING. Taking, killing and capturing wildlife by the use of any trap, snare, dead fall or other device commonly used to capture wildlife, and includes all lesser acts such as placing, setting or staking such traps, snares, dead falls and other devices, whether or not the acts result in taking of wildlife, and every attempt to take and every act of assistance to any other person in taking or attempting to take wildlife with traps, snares, dead falls or other devices.
(1995 Code, § 6.04.070) Penalty, see § 96.99
§ 96.08 CATS RUNNING AT LARGE.
   (A)   It shall be unlawful for any owner of any cat to permit the cat, at any time, to leave or be beyond the premises upon which such cat is usually kept so as to run or be at large. The cat shall also be considered a public nuisance based upon excessive or continuous or untimely making of any noise or disturbance.
   (B)   It shall be the duty of any animal control officer or other individual or individuals as designated by the City Manager to seize and impound any such cat deemed to be a public nuisance. Any such cat taken into custody by an animal control officer as hereinbefore provided shall be impounded at the county’s animal shelter, or other suitable facility and therein handled according to the regulations of the facility.
(1995 Code, § 6.04.080) Penalty, see § 96.99
   (C)   (1)   Any owner reclaiming an impounded cat shall be required to pay a flat fee of $25 for the first redemption within the fiscal year, $50 for the second redemption within the fiscal year and $75 for the third redemption within the fiscal year, as well as for all subsequent redemptions within the fiscal year, plus the cost of any tag, if necessary, before any impounded cat is released. However, before the cat is released to the owner, he or she must present a valid inoculation certificate or valid tag which shall be evidence of inoculation.
      (2)   In the event the cat has not been inoculated, the cat shall be released upon payment of the fees set forth above, and the owner shall then have 24 hours to procure and present an inoculation certificate or the cat shall be subject to being impounded again.
      (3)   The payment of the impounding fees shall not bar the imposition of any fine which may be imposed for the violation of this chapter.
      (4)   For the purposes herein expressed, the fiscal year commences July 1 and terminates June 30.
IMPOUNDMENT
§ 96.20 SEIZURE AND IMPOUNDMENT.
   (A)   The City animal control officer or any police officer may seize and impound any wild, exotic, dangerous or undomesticated animal or reptile and upon seizure and impoundment, the animal or reptile shall be delivered to a place of confinement which may be with any organization which is authorized by law to accept the animal or reptile.
   (B)   The City animal control officer or any police officer may render the animal or reptile immobile, by means of tranquilizers or other safe drugs or, if that is not safely possible, then the animal or reptile may be killed.
   (C)   The City animal control officer or any police officer shall also issue or cause to be issued a citation for violation of any of the provisions set forth in §§ 96.01 through 96.03 in lieu of, or in addition to, seizure, impoundment, immobilization or destruction of the animal or reptile.
   (D)   Any reasonable cost incurred in undertaking the seizure, impoundment, immobilization or destruction of the animal or reptile by the City animal control officer or police officer shall be charged against and paid by the owner, keeper, possessor or harborer of the animal or reptile so seized, impounded, immobilized and/or destroyed.
(1995 Code, § 6.04.140) (Ord. O-94-22, passed 8-8-1994)
DOGS
§ 96.40 DEFINITIONS.
   For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
   ANIMAL CONTROL OFFICER. For the purpose of this chapter, any police officer of the City and any animal control or code enforcement officers employed or contracted for in such capacity by the City, County of Campbell or by any joint venture between the City and any other local government organizations.
   AT LARGE. On or off the premises of the owner and not under the immediate effective control of the owner or custodian either by leash, cord or chain, or effectively confined within a fenced area on the owner’s premises.
   CITY LICENSE. The license issued by the City or its designated agent by appropriate municipal order and required to be worn as hereinafter stated.
   DOG. Any member of the canine family, 6 months of age or over, male or female.
   HARBORING. Any person who shall permit any dog to remain, be lodged or maintained and fed within his or her home, yard, place of business or enclosure.
   INOCULATED. The administration by a veterinarian or qualified person of anti-rabic vaccine approved by and administered in accordance with the regulations of the Cabinet for Human Resources.
   OWNER. Every person having a right of prop erty in the dog and every person who keeps, maintains or harbors the dog or has it in his or her care or permits it to remain on or about the premises owned or occupied by him or her. If a dog is owned by a family, all adult members of the family, individually and jointly, shall be deemed owners of the dog for the purposes of this subchapter.
   QUALIFIED PERSON. A person granted a permit by the Cabinet of Human Resources to vaccinate animals against rabies and may include owners or operators of licensed kennels.
   STATE LICENSE. The license and/or tags required by KRS 258.
   VETERINARIAN. Any person licensed to practice the profession of veterinary medicine in the commonwealth or in any other state in which the standards and requirements therefor are equal or superior to those in the commonwealth.
   VICIOUS OR DANGEROUS DOG.
      (1)   Any dog which constitutes a physical threat to human beings or other animals by virtue of a known or displayed propensity to endanger by pursuing, wounding or attacking any other domestic animal or human being;
      (2)   Any dog that has exhibited a tendency to do any act which might endanger the safety, health or well-being of any person or other animal without sufficient provocation for such act;
      (3)   Any dog trained, owned or harbored for the purpose, primarily or in part, of animal fighting;
      (4)   Any animal which has been trained to attack persons independently or upon oral command, excepting animals owned by public law enforcement agencies; or
      (5)   Any dog which is recognized by the American Kennel Club as either an American Staffordshire Terrier or Staffordshire Bull Terrier; is recognized by the United Kennel Club as an American Pit Bull Terrier; conforms to either of the standards of the American Kennel Club for the American Staffordshire Terrier or Staffordshire Bull Terrier, which is published with an example photograph in the current edition of the Complete Dog Book; or has predominant physical characteristics which are those of either the American Staffordshire Terrier or the American Staffordshire Bull Terrier indicated in the standards of the American Kennel Club, which is published with example photograph in the current edition of the Complete Dog Book and any breed or mixed breed of dog having any part of the standards or characteristics thereof.
(1995 Code, § 6.08.010) (Am. Ord. O-2008-017, passed 7-14-2008)
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