6.04.010 Definitions.
As used in this chapter, the following terms mean:
“Animal” means any live, vertebrate creature, domestic or wild.
“Animal shelter” means any facility operated by a humane society, or municipal agency, or its authorized agents for the purpose of impounding or caring for animals held under the authority of this chapter or state law.
“Auctions” means 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” means a commercial variety show featuring animal acts for public entertainment.
“Commercial animal establishment” means any pet shop, grooming shop, auction, riding school or stable, zoological park, circus, performing animal exhibition, or kennel.
“Grooming shop” means a commercial establishment where animals are bathed, clipped, plucked, or otherwise groomed.
“Humane officer” means any person designated by the county, the city, or a humane society as a law enforcement officer who is qualified to perform such duties under the laws of this state.
“Kennel” means 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” means 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 three consecutive days or more.
“Performing animal exhibition” means any spectacle, display, act or event other than circuses, in which performing animals are used.
“Pet” means any animal kept for pleasure rather than utility.
“Pet shop” means 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” means any animal or animals which:
1. Molests passersby or passing vehicles;
2. Attacks other animals;
3. Trespasses on school grounds;
4. Is repeatedly at large;
5. Barks, whines or howls in an excessive, continuous, or untimely fashion.
“Restraint” means secured by a leash or lead, or within the real property limits of its owner.
“Riding school or stable” means any place which has available for hire, boarding and/or riding instruction, any horse, pony, donkey, mule or burro.
“Veterinary hospital” means any establishment maintained and operated by a licensed veterinarian for surgery, diagnosis and treatment of diseases and injuries of animals.
“Vicious animal” means any animal or animals that constitute a physical threat to human beings or other animals.
“Wild animal” means any live monkey (nonhuman primate), raccoon, skunk, fox, poisonous snake, leopard, panther, tiger, lion, lynx, or any other warm-blooded animal which can normally be found in the wild state.
“Zoological park” means any facility, other than a pet shop or kennel, displaying or exhibiting one or more species of nondomesticated animals operated by a person, partnership, corporation or government agency. (Ord. 90-4 § 1, 1990; Ord. 76-8 § 1, 1976)