For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ANIMAL. Any one of the lower animals as distinguished from, and not including, man, belonging to the animal kingdom of the living beings, typically differing from plants, and including mammals, fowl, reptiles, and fish.
DOG. Male and female canine.
DOMESTIC ANIMAL. An animal conditioned so as to live and breed in a tame environment and normally amenable to human habitats.
ENFORCEMENT COMPLAINT. The document(s) which, when properly served upon the alleged violator of an ordinance which is punishable as an infraction, brings the matter before the appropriate court for resolution. An ENFORCEMENT COMPLAINT shall provide a scheduled fine, set by the municipal judge, which may be paid in lieu of appearance in court.
FOWL. A bird of any kind.
INFRACTION. An offense or violation of a city ordinance punishable only by a fine, forfeiture, suspension or revocation of the registration or other privilege, or other civil penalty.
INJURY. Includes, at minimum, the breaking or scraping of bodily tissue of any person or animal, no matter how slight.
KEEPER. Any person, firm, or association having the custody of or authority to control the animal.
KENNEL. Any lot or premises on which four or more dogs more than six months old are kept.
LIVESTOCK. Horses, mules, jackasses, burros, cattle, sheep, goats, donkeys, swine, and any fur-bearing animal bred and maintained, commercially or otherwise, within pens, cages, and hutches.
MISTREATMENT. Improper care of an annual, which includes, but is not limited to, abusive treatment, neglect, overdriving, overloading, torturing, tormenting, cruel acts, beating, mutilation, deprivation of necessary sustenance, or abandonment of any animal.
OWNER OF PROPERTY. Any person who has legal or equitable interest in real property, or who has a possessory interest therein, or who resides on the property, or is a guest of any person who owns, rents, or leases said property.
POULTRY. Domestic fowl, such as chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese, or other fowl raised for meat or eggs.
REGISTRATION. Written information, notation, or memorandum of record filed with city or applicable public body, in accordance with its laws and rules.
RUNNING AT LARGE. An animal which is off or outside the premises belonging to the owner, keeper, or person having control, custody, or possession of the animal, or not in the company of and under the control of its owner or keeper by means of an adequate leash, pen, cage, coop, vehicle, or other means of confinement or immediate supervision.
WILD ANIMAL. An animal which normally lives in a state of nature and is not ordinarily tame or domesticated and usually not amenable to human habitats.
(Ord. 718, passed 10-8-2012)