In this chapter, unless the context or subject matter otherwise
requires, the following terms shall have the meaning indicated:
ANIMAL
Mammals, reptiles and birds.
AT LARGE
To be off the premises of the owner and not under the control
of some person by leash, but a dog or cat within an automobile of
its owner, or in an automobile of any other person with the consent
of the owner of said dog or cat, shall be deemed to be upon the owner's
premises.
CAT
Any feline, regardless of age or sex.
CITY
The City of Arcadia, Wisconsin.
CRUEL
Causing unnecessary and excessive pain or suffering or unjustifiable
injury or death.
DOG
Any canine, regardless of age or sex.
FARM ANIMAL
Any warm-blooded animal normally raised on farms in the United
States and used for food or fiber.
KENNEL
Any property, including without limitation a home, farm or
business, wherein or whereon more than three dogs are kept on a regular
basis, and which contains permanent facilities to house more than
three dogs.
LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER
That meaning as appears in § 967.02(5), Wis. Stats.,
and includes a humane officer, as defined under § 173.03,
Wis. Stats., but does not include a conservation warden appointed
under § 23.10, Wis. Stats.
NEUTERED
As used herein as describing a dog or cat, shall mean a dog
or cat having nonfunctional reproductive organs.
OWNER
Any person owning, harboring or keeping a dog or cat and
the occupant of any premises on which a dog or cat remains or to which
it customarily returns daily for a period of 10 days; such person
is presumed to be harboring or keeping the dog or cat within the meaning
of this chapter.
PET
An animal kept and treated as a pet.
SERVICE ANIMAL
Any dog that is individually trained to do work or perform
tasks for the benefit of an individual with a disability, including
a physical, sensory, psychiatric, intellectual, or other mental disability.
Other species of animals, whether wild or domestic, trained or untrained,
are not service animals for the purposes of this definition. The work
or tasks performed by a service animal must be directly related to
the handler's disability. Examples of work or tasks include,
but are not limited to, assisting individuals who are blind or have
low vision with navigation and other tasks, alerting individuals who
are deaf or hard of hearing to the presence of people or sounds, providing
nonviolent protection or rescue work, pulling a wheelchair, assisting
an individual during a seizure, alerting individuals to the presence
of allergens, retrieving items such as medicine or the telephone,
providing physical support and assistance with balance and stability
to individuals with mobility disabilities, and helping persons with
psychiatric and neurological disabilities by preventing or interrupting
impulsive or destructive behaviors.
The City Clerk-Treasurer shall assess and collect a late fee
established by the Common Council by resolution from every owner of
a dog five months of age or over if the owner failed to obtain a license
prior to February 1 of each year, or within 30 days of acquiring ownership
of a licensable dog, or if the owner failed to obtain a license on
or before the day the dog reached licensable age. Said late fee shall
be charged in addition to the required license fee.
No dog or cat shall be permitted in any public cemetery. Every
dog specially trained as a service animal shall be exempt from this
section.
Every owner or person harboring or keeping a dog or cat who
knows that such dog or cat has bitten any person shall immediately
report such fact to the Police Department and shall keep such dog
or cat confined for not less than 14 days or for such period of time
as the Police Department shall direct. The owner or keeper of any
such dog or cat shall surrender the dog or cat to a law enforcement
officer upon demand for examination.
The owner or person in charge of any dog or other animal shall
not permit solid fecal matter of such animal to deposit on any street,
alley or other public or private property, unless such matter is immediately
removed therefrom by said owner or person in charge. This section
shall not apply to a person who is visually or physically handicapped.
It shall be unlawful for any person owning or possessing an
animal, dog or cat to permit such animal, dog or cat to go upon any
parkway or private lands or premises without the permission of the
owner of such premises and break, bruise, tear up, crush or injure
any lawn, flowerbed, plant, shrub, tree or garden in any manner whatsoever,
or to defecate thereon.
No person except a law enforcement officer in the pursuit of his duties shall, within the City, shoot or kill or commit an act of cruelty to any animal or bird or disturb any bird's nest or bird's eggs. This section does not apply to any lawful trapping under §
146-16 of this chapter, including the killing of animals so trapped.
The operator of any vehicle involved in an accident resulting
in injury to or death of a dog, cat or other animal which appears
to be a pet shall immediately notify the Police Department or an animal
control agency the jurisdiction of which extends into the City.