As used in this chapter, the following terms are defined below:
ANIMAL: Every nonhuman species of animal, both domestic and wild.
ANIMAL AT LARGE: Any animal not under the restraint of a person capable of controlling the animal and/or off the premises of the owner.
ANIMAL CONTROL OFFICER: Any person designated by the state of California and/or a municipal government, as a law enforcement officer who is qualified to perform such duties under the laws of this state.
ANIMAL SHELTER: Any facility operated by a humane society, municipal agency or its authorized agents, for the purpose of impounding animals under the authority of this chapter or state law for care, confinement, return to owner, adoption, or euthanasia.
AUCTION: Any place or facility where animals are regularly bought, sold or traded, except for those facilities otherwise defined in this chapter. This definition does not apply to individual sales of animals by owners.
CIRCUS: A commercial variety show featuring animal acts for public entertainment.
COMMERCIAL ANIMAL ESTABLISHMENT: Any pet shop, grooming shop, guard dog auction, riding school or stable, zoological park, circus, performing animal exhibition, or boarding or breeding kennel.
GROOMING SHOP: A commercial establishment where animals are bathed, clipped, plucked or otherwise groomed.
GUARD DOG: Any dog that will detect and warn its handler that an intruder is present in or near an area that is being secured.
KENNEL OR CATTERY: Any premises wherein any person engages in the business of boarding, breeding, buying, letting for hire, training for a fee or selling dogs or cats.
OWNER: Any person, partnership, or corporation owning, keeping or harboring one or more animals. An animal shall be deemed to be harbored if it is fed or sheltered for fifteen (15) consecutive days or more.
PERFORMING ANIMAL EXHIBITION: Any spectacle, display, act, or event, other than circuses, in which performing animals are used.
PET OR COMPANION ANIMAL: Any animal kept for pleasure rather than utility; an animal of a species that has been bred and raised to live in or about the habitation of humans and is dependent on people for food and shelter.
PET SHOP: Any person, partnership or corporation, whether operated separately or in connection with another business enterprise (except for a licensed kennel), that buys, sells or boards any species of animal.
PUBLIC NUISANCE ANIMAL: Any animal(s) that unreasonably annoys humans, endangers the life or health of other animals or persons, or substantially interferes with the rights of citizens, other than their owners, to the enjoyment of life or property. The term "public nuisance animal" shall mean and include, but is not limited to, any animal that:
(A) Is repeatedly found at large.
(B) Damages the property of anyone other than its owner.
(C) Molests or intimidates pedestrians or passersby.
(D) Chases vehicles.
(E) Excessively makes disturbing noises, including, but not limited to, continued and repeated howling, barking, whining or other utterances causing unreasonable annoyance, disturbance or discomfort to neighbors or others in close proximity to the premises where the animal is kept or harbored.
(F) Causes fouling of the air by odor and thereby creates unreasonable annoyance or discomfort to neighbors or others in close proximity to the premises where the animal is kept or harbored.
(G) Causes unsanitary conditions in enclosures or surroundings where the animal is kept or harbored.
(H) Is offensive or dangerous to the public health, safety or welfare by virtue of the number and/or types of animals maintained.
(I) Attacks other domestic animals.
(J) Has been found by the animal control officer, after notice to its owner and a hearing, to be a public nuisance animal by virtue of being a menace to the public health, welfare or safety.
RESTRAINT: Any animal secured by a leash or led under the control of a responsible person and obedient to that person's commands, or within the real property limits of its owner, or within seventy five feet (75') of the real property limits of the owner.
RIDING SCHOOL OR STABLE: Any place that has available for hire, boarding, and/or riding instruction, any horse, pony, donkey, mule or burro; or any place that regularly buys, sells or trains the above animals, including a racetrack, trotting track or rodeo.
VETERINARY HOSPITAL: Any establishment maintained and operated by a licensed veterinarian for surgery, diagnosis and treatment of diseases and injuries of animals.
VICIOUS ANIMAL: Any animal that attacks, bites or injures human beings or domesticated animals without provocation, or which, because of temperament, conditioning, or training, has a known propensity to attack, bite or injure human beings or domesticated animals.
WILD ANIMAL: Any living member of the animal kingdom, including those born or raised in captivity, except the following: human beings, domestic dogs (excluding hybrids with wolves, coyotes or jackals), domestic cats (excluding hybrids with ocelots or margays), farm animals, rodents, any hybrid animal that is part wild and captive bred species of common cage birds.
ZOOLOGICAL PARK: Any facility operated by a person, partnership, corporation, or government agency, other than a pet shop or kennel, displaying or exhibiting one or more species of nondomesticated animals. (Ord. 682-00, 9-5-2000)