Definitions. For the purpose of these regulations, the following
definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires
a different meaning.
BOARDING KENNEL
Any facility where household pets are housed for the general
public for a profit with the exception of State-inspected veterinarian
hospitals, pet stores, grooming parlors and animal shelters.
GROOMING PARLOR
Any establishment, or part thereof, or premises maintained
for the purpose of offering bathing, clipping, or combing of animals
and for which a fee is charged. This definition includes facilities
that offer self-service bathing or grooming but excludes State-inspected
veterinary facilities so long as the grooming area is inspected by
the State.
PET DAY-CARE FACILITY
Any establishment, or part thereof, or premises maintained
for the purpose of providing socialization, training, or housing,
in the absence of the owner, for less than twenty-four (24) hours
for household pets owned by the general public for which a fee is
charged. Exceptions to this definition would include State-inspected
veterinary hospitals so long as the day care facility area is inspected
by the State and facilities already permitted by the City as boarding
kennels, grooming parlors, pet stores or animal shelters.
PET STORE
Any commercial establishment or premises or part thereof,
that acquires through purchase, consignment, donation, importation
or breeding, live animals including mammals, birds, reptiles or fish
but excluding livestock and offers these animals to the public or
other commercial outlets for the purchase, sale, exchange, barter,
trade or transfer. This definition shall not include livestock auctions,
livery stables, or the operating residence of a hobby breeder.
PET TRAINING FACILITY
Any commercial facility which receives compensation for the
boarding and care of household pets in training for more than a 24-hour
period in the absence of the owner. Training services include housing,
training, handling, showing, grooming and transportation of an animal.
Such training services shall be for the purposes of exhibition, behavior
modification or enhancement, assistance for the disabled, hunting,
and field trial or lure course training, guard dog training, agility
or any other type of training service.
PRIMARY ENCLOSURE
A primary enclosure is the pen, run, cage, or room in which
a pet normally spends most of its time. This is the area in which
the animal eats, drinks, eliminates, rests and sleeps.
SANITIZE, SANITATION. SANITATION
Means the maintenance of conditions conducive to health and
involves bedding changes (as appropriate), cleaning and disinfection.
Cleaning removes excessive amounts of dirt and debris; disinfection
reduces or eliminates unacceptable concentrations of microorganisms.
To SANITIZE, therefore, means to make physically clean and to the
maximum degree practical, remove and destroy agents injurious to health.
VETERINARIAN
Any person who is licensed as a doctor of veterinary medicine
by the State.