8.04.010: DEFINITIONS:

A. Placing an animal in an unsafe or dangerous environment where the animal is separated from basic needs such as food, water, shelter or necessary medical attention, for a period of longer than twenty four (24) hours; or

B. Failure to reclaim an animal seventy two (72) hours beyond the time agreed upon with a kennel, grooming service, veterinary hospital, or animal shelter.

ALLOW: For the purposes of this title, shall include human conduct that is intentional, deliberate, careless, inadvertent or negligent in relation to the actions of an animal.

ANIMAL AT LARGE: Any domesticated animal, whether or not licensed, not under restraint as defined herein.

ANIMAL BOARDING ESTABLISHMENT: Any establishment that takes in animals for board for profit.

ANIMAL GROOMER: Any establishment maintained for the purpose of offering cosmetological services for animals for profit.

ANIMAL SERVICES: The office referred to in section 8.04.020 of this chapter, or its successor section.

ANIMAL SHELTER: A facility owned and/or operated by a governmental entity or any animal welfare organization that is incorporated within the state, used for the care and custody of seized, stray, homeless, quarantined, abandoned or unwanted dogs, cats, or other small domestic animals; or for the purpose of protective custody under the authority of this title or state law.

ANIMAL UNDER RESTRAINT: Any animal under the control of its owner or person over the age of twelve (12) years having charge, care, custody or control of the animal, by means of: a) a leash or lead not to exceed six feet (6') in length, b) other physical enclosure, or c) within the real property limits of the owner.

ANIMALS: Any and all types of livestock, dogs and other nonhuman creatures, both domestic and wild, male and female, singular and plural.

APIARY: Any place where one or more colonies of bees are located.

BEEKEEPER: A person who owns or has charge of one or more colonies of bees.

BEEKEEPING EQUIPMENT: Anything used in the operation of an apiary, such as hive bodies, supers, frames, top and bottom boards, and extractors.

BITE: An actual puncture, tear or abrasion of the skin inflicted by the teeth of an animal.

CARRIAGE BUSINESS: Any person offering to transport another person for any valuable consideration and by means of a horsedrawn carriage.

CARRIAGE OR HORSEDRAWN CARRIAGE: Any device in, upon, or by which any person is or may be transported or drawn upon a public way and which is designed to be drawn by horses.

CAT: Any feline of the domesticated types four (4) months of age or older.

CATTERY: An establishment for boarding, breeding, buying, grooming or selling cats for profit.

COLONY: Bees in any hive including queens, workers, or drones.

COMMERCIAL ANIMAL ESTABLISHMENT: Any pet shop, grooming shop, animal training establishment, guard dog auction or exhibition, riding school or stable, zoological park, circus, rodeo, animal exhibition, or boarding or breeding kennel.

CONFINEMENT: That the animal is kept in an escapeproof enclosure or walked on a leash of not more than six feet (6') in length by a person eighteen (18) years of age or older. Confinement does not restrict contact with other animals or humans.

CUSTODIAN: A person having custody.

CUSTODY: Ownership, possession of, harboring, or exercising control over any animal.

DANGEROUS ANIMAL: Any animal which is properly classified as dangerous in accordance with the pertinent written standards developed by the office of animal services. The term "dangerous animal" shall include constrictor snakes in excess of ten feet (10') in length.

DESIGNEE: An individual designated by the director of the office of animal services to perform the duties of the director's "designee" as such duties are set forth in this title.

DIRECTOR: The director of the office of animal services.

DOG: Any Canis familiaris four (4) months of age or older.

DOMESTICATED ANIMALS: Animals accustomed to live in or about the habitation of people, including, but not limited to, cats, dogs, fowl, horses, swine and goats.

DRIVER: Any person operating or in actual physical control of a horsedrawn carriage, or any person sitting in the driver's seat of such carriage with the intention of causing it to be moved by a horse.

ENCLOSURE: Any structure that prevents an animal from escaping its confines.

ESTRAY OR STRAY: Any "animal at large", as defined herein.

EUTHANASIA: The humane destruction of an animal accomplished by a method approved by the most recent report of the American Veterinary Medication Association panel on euthanasia.

FERAL CAT: Any free roaming, homeless, wild or untamed cat.

FERAL CAT COLONY: A group of free roaming, homeless, wild or untamed cats living together in an area.

GUARD DOG: A working dog which must be kept in a fenced run or other suitable enclosure during business hours, or on a leash or under absolute control while working, so it cannot come into contact with the public.

HIVE: A frame hive, box hive, box, barrel, log, gum, skep, or other artificial or natural receptacle which may be used to house bees.

HOLDING FACILITY: Any pet shop, kennel, cattery, groomery, riding school, stable, animal shelter, veterinary hospital, humane establishment, or any other such facility used for holding animals.

HONEYBEE: The common honeybee, Apis mellifera species, at any stage of development, but not including the African honeybee, Apis mellifera scutellata species, or any hybrid thereof.

IMPOUNDMENT: Taken into the custody of an animal services agency, police department, or an agent thereof.

KENNEL: An establishment having dogs for the purpose of boarding, breeding, buying, grooming, letting for hire, training for fee, or selling.

LEASH OR LEAD: Any chain, rope or device used to restrain an animal, being no longer than six feet (6') in length.

LITTER: The offspring at one birth from the same mother and under the minimum age to obtain a rabies vaccination.

OWNER: Any person having title to, or an ownership interest in, or custody of, or keeping, maintaining or possessing one or more animals. "Owner" does not include a feral cat custodian participating in a trap, spay/neuter, return or release program.

PERSON: A natural person or any legal entity, including, but not limited to, a corporation, firm, partnership or trust.

PET OR COMPANION ANIMAL: Any animal of a species that has been developed to live in or about the habitation of humans, is dependent on humans for food and shelter, and is kept for pleasure rather than utility or commercial purposes.

PET SHOP: Any establishment containing cages or exhibition pens, not part of a kennel or cattery, wherein dogs, cats, birds or other pets are kept, displayed or sold.

PROVOKED: Any deliberate act by a person toward a dog or any other animal done with the intent to tease, torment, abuse, assault or otherwise cause a reaction by the dog or other animal; provided, however, that any act by a person done with the intent to discourage or prevent a dog or other animal from attacking shall not be considered to be a provocation.

QUARANTINE: The isolation of an animal in a substantial enclosure so that the animal is not subject to contact with other animals or persons not authorized by the office of animal services.

RIDING SCHOOL OR STABLE: An establishment which offers boarding and/or riding instruction for any horse, pony, donkey, mule or burro, or which offers such animals for hire.

SERVICE ANIMAL: Any guide dog, signal dog, or other animal individually trained to provide assistance to an individual with a disability.

SET:

A. To cock, open or put a trap in such a condition that it would clamp closed when an object or person touches a triggering device; and/or

B. To place a spring loaded trap which has been opened or fixed so that it would close upon the triggering device being touched upon the ground, or in a position where a person or animal could become caught therein.

SPECIALIZED EQUIPMENT: That equipment, other than the usual patrol vehicles of animal services, which is designed for specific purposes such as, but not limited to, livestock trailers and carcass trailers.

SPECIES SUBJECT TO RABIES: Any species that has been reported to the centers for disease control to have contracted the rabies virus and become a host for that virus.

SPRING LOADED TRAP: Any clamplike apparatus which is utilized to catch animals, objects or persons when, after being set and the triggering device being activated, clamplike jaws are designed to come together with force so as to clamp or close upon an animal, person or object activating the spring or triggering device.

STABLE: Any place or facility where one or more horses, ponies, donkeys, mules or burros are housed or maintained, and are offered for hire.

VETERINARIAN: Any person legally licensed to practice veterinary medicine under the laws of the state of Utah.

VICIOUS ANIMAL: Any animal which is properly classified as vicious in accordance with the pertinent written standards developed by the office of animal services.

WILD OR EXOTIC ANIMAL: Any animal of a species that in its natural life is usually untamed and undomesticated, including hybrids and animals which, as a result of their natural or wild condition, cannot be vaccinated effectively for rabies. These animals, however domesticated or tamed, shall include, but are not limited to:

A. Alligators And Crocodiles: Alligators and crocodiles;

B. Bears (Ursidae): All bears, including grizzly bears, brown bears, and black bears;

C. Cat Family (Felidae): All except the commonly accepted domesticated cats, and including cheetahs, cougars, leopards, lions, lynx, panthers, mountain lions, tigers and wildcats;

D. Dog Family (Canidae): All except domesticated dogs, and including wolf, part wolf, fox, part fox, coyote, part coyote, dingo and part dingo;

E. Porcupines (Erethizontidae): Porcupines;

F. Primate (Hominidae): All subhuman primates;

G. Raccoon (Prosynnidae): All raccoons, including eastern raccoons, desert raccoons and ring tailed cats;

H. Skunks: Skunks;

I. Fish: Venomous fish and piranha;

J. Snakes Or Lizards: Venomous snakes or lizards;

K. Weasels (Mustelidae): All, including weasels, martens, wolverines, ferrets, badgers, otters, ermine, mink and mongoose, except that the possession of such animals shall not be prohibited when raised commercially for their pelts.

For the purpose of this definition, animals that are kept commercially or ranched shall not be wild or exotic animals.

WORK: With reference to a horse, means that the horse is out of the stable and presented as being available for pulling carriages; in harness; or pulling a carriage. (Ord. 21-14, 2014)

8.04.020: ANIMAL SERVICES:

Animal services may be provided through a legally executed agreement, which includes the authority and power to enforce this title. Alternatively, the city may elect to provide its own animal services without entering into a contract with an outside provider. (Ord. 21-14, 2014)

8.04.030: ANIMAL SERVICES OFFICIALS; POWERS AND DUTIES:

A. The animal services director, or any person employed by the office of animal services as an animal services officer, or any person authorized through a legal agreement, shall take the oath of office and shall be vested with the power and authority to enforce this title.

B. The animal services director, his or her deputies, assistants and animal services officers, are hereby authorized and empowered to apprehend and take with them and impound any animal found in violation of this title, and including licensable dogs for which no license has been procured in accordance with this title, or any licensed or unlicensed dogs for any other violation thereof.

C. In the enforcement of this title, any peace officer, or the director of animal services, his or her assistants or animal services officers are authorized to enter onto the open premises of any person to take possession of any animal in violation of this title. (Ord. 69-99 § 6, 1999: prior code § 100-1-3)

8.04.040: DIRECTOR'S AND OFFICERS' POWERS; ENFORCEMENT:

A. The animal services director shall:

1. Enforce this title and perform other responsibilities pursuant thereto;

2. Supervise the municipal animal shelter(s) under his or her jurisdiction;

3. Keep adequate records of all animals impounded and all monies collected;

4. See that all animals and animal holding facilities in his or her jurisdiction are licensed, controlled and permitted in accordance with any applicable ordinance and/or regulations;

5. Establish, in cooperation with the Salt Lake Valley health department and other interested governmental agencies, adequate measures for rabies immunization and control.

B. Each animal services officer shall:

1. Enforce this chapter in all respects pertaining to animal services within the city, including the care and impounding of animals and prevention of cruelty to animals;

2. Carry out all duties prescribed or delegated by the director. (Ord. 1-06 § 30, 2006: Ord. 69-99 § 6, 1999: prior code § 100-1-4)

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