For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ABANDONMENT. Allowing a dog to provide its own resources in finding shelter, food or water; leaving a dog for more than 36 hours without human attention or supervision.
DOG. A male or female dog of any age.
OFFICER. Shall be intended to mean any police officer, animal control officer or any other person authorized or employed by the town or county whose duty it is to preserve the peace, to make arrests or to enforce the law.
OWNER. Any person or persons, firm, association or corporation owning, feeding, keeping or harboring a dog.
RUNNING AT LARGE. Any dog while roaming, running or hunting for itself off the property of its owner or custodian and not under its owner's or custodian's immediate control.
(OC, § 8-2-11) (Ord. passed 7-1-71; Am. Ord. passed 3-9-89)