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No person shall sell, exchange, offer to sell or exchange, display or possess living baby chicks, ducklings, or other fowl or rabbits which have been dyed or colored; nor dye or color any baby chicks, ducklings or other fowl or rabbits; nor sell, exchange, offer to sell or exchange or to give away baby chicks, ducklings or other fowl or rabbits, under two months of age in any quantity less than six, except that any rabbit weighing three pounds or more may be sold at an age of six weeks.
(KRS 436.600) Penalty, see § 90.99
No owner of a domestic animal shall abandon the animal.
Penalty, see § 90.99
(A) Any peace officer, animal control officer, or any person authorized by the Board of Agriculture may destroy or kill or cause to be destroyed or killed, any animal found abandoned and suffering and not properly cared for, or appearing to be injured, diseased, or suffering past recovery for any useful purpose.
(B) Before destroying the animal the officer shall obtain the judgment to that effect of a veterinarian, or of two reputable citizens called by him to view the animal in his presence, or shall obtain consent to the destruction from the owner of the animal.
(C) (1) Any animal placed in the custody of a licensed veterinarian for treatment, boarding, or other care, which shall be unclaimed by its owner or his agent for a period of more than ten days after written notice by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, is given the owner or his agent at his last known address, shall be deemed to be abandoned and may be turned over to the nearest humane society, or animal shelter or disposed of as the custodian may deem proper.
(2) The giving of notice to the owner, or the agent of the owner of the animal by the licensed veterinarian shall relieve the licensed veterinarian and any custodian to whom the animal may be given of any further liability for disposal.
(KRS 257.100)
(A) Definition. For the purposes of this section, the following definition shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
VICIOUS ANIMAL:
(a) Any animal which bites multiple times or to the extent of causing severe injury, assaults or otherwise attacks human beings or domestic animals;
(b) Any animal owned or harbored primarily or in part for the purpose of fighting with animals.
(B) It shall be prima facie evidence that an animal is vicious if:
(1) The animal, including dogs, bites a human being or domestic animal more than once in the same attack;
(2) The animal, including dogs, has bitten human beings or domestic animals twice; or
(3) If the animal is a dog, the dog has been found to be a dangerous dog within the meaning of this section, and the code of ordinances or any other applicable rules, laws, and/or regulations pertaining to the regulation of dangerous dogs has subsequently been violated by the same dangerous dog.
(C) Exceptions. An animal shall not be deemed vicious solely because:
(1) It bites, attacks, or menaces:
(a) Any person assaulting its owner;
(b) Any person or animal who has tormented or abused it;
(2) Is otherwise acting in defense of any attack from a person or other animal upon itself, its owner or another person; or
(3) Any police canine unit in the performance of their duties.
(D) A dog shall be declared to be vicious by a court.
(E) It shall be unlawful for any person or entity to knowingly keep, possess, harbor, or house any vicious animal within the city.
(F) It shall be unlawful for any person to knowingly permit, allow, cause, or facilitate, by act or omission, the entry into the city of any vicious animal including vicious dog.
(Ord. 840.6, passed 9-14-87; Am. Ord. 2002-0006, passed 8-12-02) Penalty, see § 90.99
Any person wishing to declare a dog vicious shall file a complaint before the district court, charging the owner or keeper of such dog with harboring a vicious dog. A copy of such complaint shall be served upon the person so charged in the same manner and subject to the laws regulating the service of summons in civil actions directing him to appear for a hearing of such complaint at a time fixed therein. If such person fails to appear at the time fixed, or if upon a hearing of the parties and their witnesses, the court finds the person so charged is the owner or keeper of the dog in question, and that the dog has viciously and without cause, acted in a manner that is defined in § 90.07 herein, the dog shall be found to be vicious and the owner or keeper of the dog in question shall be subject to the penalties set forth in § 90.99 and the orders of the court.
(Ord. 2002-0006, passed 8-12-02) Penalty, see § 90.99
An Animal Control Officer shall be appointed by the Mayor to oversee the enforcement of the provisions of the code that pertain to animals.
(Ord. 2002-0006, passed 8-12-02) Penalty, see § 90.99
It shall be unlawful for any animal owner or harborer to keep or to have within the city an animal that habitually or repeatedly gets into garbage cans or bags, or damages flowers, gardens, shrubs or conducts himself in any way as to be a public nuisance.
(Ord. 2002-0006, passed 8-12-02) Penalty, see § 90.99
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