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)