For the purpose of this chapter, certain terms and words are defined as follows:
AGGRESSIVE DOG: | Any dog that barks, growls, charges at, jumps upon, or has demonstrated tendencies, without provocation, in a menacing manner, that would lead a reasonable person to believe that the dog may inflict bodily injury upon or cause the death of any person or domestic animal, or has engaged in or been trained for fighting as described and prohibited in Colorado Revised Statute 18-9-204. For purposes of this definition, "domestic animal" shall mean any other dog, cat, or livestock that may be permitted to be within the Town boundaries. |
DANGEROUS DOG: | Any dog that has inflicted bodily injury or serious bodily injury upon another dog or has inflicted bodily injury or serious bodily injury upon or has caused the death of a person or domestic animal. |
DOG: | Any animal of canine species regardless of sex. |
DOG, FEMALE: | Any dog of the female gender on which no alternative surgery of the genital organs has been performed. |
DOG, MALE: | Any dog of the masculine gender, not castrated. |
DOG, NEUTERED: | Any male dog which has been castrated. |
DOG, SPAYED FEMALE: | Any dog of the female gender on which ovariectomy or ovarhisterectomy has been performed by a licensed veterinarian and accompanied by a certificate asserting said operation has been performed. |
DOG, STRAY: | Any unlicensed or licensed dog found unattached or loose anywhere within the town limits. |
DOG BITE: | Any bruising of the skin or break in the skin caused by any contact with the tooth or mouth of a dog. |
DOG HARBORING: | Means the act of keeping or caring for a dog, providing premises to which a dog returns for food, shelter, or care; allowing a dog to remain on the person's property for a period of ten (10) days, or the act of providing refuge to a dog in order to evade the impoundment of the dog by lawful authority. |
DOG OWNERS: | Every person in possession of or harboring any dog or who shall suffer any such dog to remain about their premises for the period of ten (10) days. Every "person" shall mean any person over eighteen (18) years of age, emancipated minor under the age of eighteen (18) without direct adult supervision, parent, guardian, or custodian of any child under the age of eighteen (18), or any legal entity as defined by the State of Colorado, owing, possessing, harboring, keeping, allowing to remain on the premises, or having a financial, or property interest in, or having control or custody of a dog, aggressive dog, or dangerous dog, as defined herein. |
RABIES: | A communicable disease of both wild and domestic animals transmittable to humans, as defined by the "Public Health Department." "Specific infectious disease of certain animals, especially dogs, and wolves, contracted by man by direct inoculation as by bite of infected animal and due to a filtrable virus" as defined in Dorland's Medical Dictionary. |
SERIOUS BODILY INJURY: | Means bodily injury which, either at the time of the actual injury or at a later time, involves a substantial risk of death, a substantial risk of serious permanent disfigurement, a substantial risk of protracted loss or impairment of the function of any part or organ of the body, or breaks, fractures, or second or third degree burns requiring professional medical treatment or any physical injury that requires corrective or cosmetic surgery. |
VACCINATIONS OR VACCINATION FOR RABIES: | Inoculation of a dog with standard rabies vaccine. |
(Ord. 333, 1-10-2023)