A. The Hearing Officer may not declare a dog potentially dangerous or vicious if the dog inflicted injury or damage to a person committing a willful trespass or other tort upon the premises occupied by the owner or keeper of the dog, or was teasing, tormenting, abusing or assaulting the dog, or was committing or attempting to commit a crime.
B. The dog may not be declared potentially dangerous or vicious if it was protecting or defending a person within the dog's immediate vicinity from an unjustified attack or assault.
C. A dog may not be declared potentially dangerous or vicious if the injury or damage was sustained by a domestic animal that was teasing, tormenting, abusing or assaulting the dog.
D. A dog may not be declared potentially dangerous or vicious if the injury or damage to a domestic animal was sustained while the dog was working as a hunting dog, herding dog, or predator control dog on the property of or under the control of its owner or keeper, and the damage or injury was to a type of domestic animal appropriate to the dog's work.