Sec. 4-9. Definitions.
In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
   (a)   Animal means any fowl, reptile, amphibian or mammal, except human beings.
   (b)   Fowl means a bird of any kind.
   (c)   Owner means any person owning, keeping, possessing, harboring, maintaining or having custody or otherwise having control of an animal.
   (d)   Wild animal means any animal which is now or historically has been found in the wild, or in the wild state. Wild state means living in its original, natural condition; not domesticated. Any hybrid cross resulting from the cross breeding between two (2) different species or types of animals, including crosses between wild animal species and domestic animals such as dog-wolf crosses, are considered wild animals.
(Ord. No. 4531, § 1, 6-28-76; Ord. No. 6043, § 4, 6-25-84; Ord. No. 8996, § 3, 12-8-97)