Terms or words used herein shall be interpreted as follows:
A. The present tense includes the past or future tense, the singular includes the plural and the plural includes the singular.
B. The word "shall" is mandatory; the word "may" is permissive; and the word "should" is preferred.
C. The masculine shall include the feminine.
As used in this chapter, the following words and terms shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section:
ANIMAL SHELTER: Any premises designated by the city for the purpose of impounding and caring for animals held under authority of this chapter.
AT LARGE: Off the premises of the custodian and not under control of the custodian or a member of his or her immediate family, or an agent or employee of the custodian, by cord or chain sufficiently strong to prevent the animal from escaping.
CRUEL OR CRUELTY: Any or all of the following:
A. The intentional and malicious infliction of pain, physical suffering, injury or death upon an animal;
B. To maliciously kill, maim, wound, overdrive, overload, drive when overloaded, overwork, torture, torment, deprive of necessary sustenance, drink or shelter, cruelly beat, mutilate or cruelly kill an animal;
C. To subject an animal to needless suffering, inflict unnecessary cruelty, drive, ride or otherwise use an animal when the same is unfit;
D. To abandon an animal;
E. To negligently confine an animal in unsanitary conditions, or to negligently house an animal in inadequate facilities; to negligently fail to provide sustenance, water or shelter to an animal.
CUSTODIAN: Any person, firm, corporation, organization or department owning, possessing or harboring or having the care or custody of any livestock, fowl and rabbits.
LIVESTOCK: Shall be defined to include all animals that are considered to be domesticated animals, excluding in-house pets.
POUND: A place enclosed by public authority for the detention of stray animals.
TETHERED: To fasten or restrain an animal by any means to an object so that it can range only within a set radius. (Ord. 2000-08, 10-9-2000)