6.01.010 Definitions.
The words and terms used in this Chapter shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.
"Animal": Any live vertebrate creature, domestic or wild, except fish.
A. "Animal control officer": Any person authorized to act on behalf of the City Manager in the enforcement of this title, and on behalf of the County Health Officer in the enforcement of rabies control laws.
B. "Animal menagerie": Any place where dangerous animals are kept or maintained for any purpose, including places where dangerous animals are boarded, exhibited, or trained.
C. "Animal shelter": A facility operated by a public jurisdiction or by an accredited, tax-exempt humane organization for the purpose of impounding, harboring, selling, placing, or destroying seized, stray, distressed, homeless, abandoned, or unwanted animals.
D. "Cat": A domestic cat (Felis catus).
E. "Dangerous animal": Any wild, exotic, or venomous animal, or other animal which because of its size, disposition, or other characteristic would constitute a danger to persons or property.
F. "Dog": A domestic dog (Canis familiaris).
G. "Health officer": The director of public health or any person authorized to act on his or her behalf.
H. "Horse establishment": Any person keeping three (3) or more horses, donkeys, mules, jack, hinny, jenny burros, or ponies for any or all of the following purposes:
1. For being ridden or driven;
2. For giving riding instructions;
3. For boarding with compensation.
I. "Owner": Any person who acknowledges ownership of an animal or who harbors or keeps an animal for five (5) or more consecutive days.
J. "Manager or City Manager": City Manager or any person authorized or designated by the City Manager to act on the City Manager's behalf.
K. "Person": Any individual, establishment, firm, association, organization, partnership, trust, corporation, or company.
L. "Private kennel": A person who maintains within or adjoining his or her private residence five (5) or more dogs over four (4) months of age, or five (5) or more cats over four (4) months of age, but no more than a combined total of five (5) dogs and cats; such animals to be for that person's recreational use or for exhibition in conformation shows, field or obedience trials and where the sale of offspring is not the primary function of the kennel. The maintenance of more than two (2) male dogs or cats used for breeding purposes for which compensation is received, or the parturition and rearing of more than two (2) litters of dogs or cats in any one (1) calendar year from the total number of females owned or maintained by that person on the premises, shall be a rebuttable presumption that such animals are owned or maintained for the purposes of commercial breeding which is not permitted under this Chapter.
M. "Quarantine": Isolation of an animal in a place and manner approved by the health officer.
N. "Potentially dangerous dog": Any dog, except a dog assisting a peace officer engaged in law enforcement duties, that:
1. Without provocation, inflicts bites on a human, or a domestic animal while on public or private property;
2. Without provocation, chases or approaches humans or domestic animals or livestock on the streets, sidewalks or any public grounds in a threatening manner or apparent attitude of attack;
3. Has a known propensity, tendency or disposition for unprovoked attack, causing injury and threatening the safety of humans and domestic animals; or
4. Has been specifically trained to guard persons and/or property.
O. "Dangerous dog": Any dog, except a dog assisting a peace officer engaged in law enforcement duties, that:
1. Has inflicted severe injury on a human or domestic animal on public or private property; or
2. Has, after having been designated potentially dangerous, engaged in the same behavior that resulted in that designation.