[Ord. 1006,[1] 6/22/2020]
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
A creature with specialized sense organs, voluntary movement,
responses to factors in the environment, and the ability to acquire
and digest food.
Any animal capable of creating, threatening, or risking a
hazardous, perilous, or unsafe condition. This term includes, but
is not limited to, bobcats, wolves, crocodiles, alligators, or any
other animal which presents a danger to life or limb.
Any animal normally or ordinarily domesticated or raised
as livestock or for work or breeding purposes.
Any fowl, such as grouse, pheasants, turkeys, partridges,
ducks, geese, and chickens, with the exception of roosters.
Any dog, cat, bird, gerbil, hamster, or similar animal normally
and ordinarily kept in or permitted to be at large in the dwelling
of its owner. This term specifically excludes wild animals, such as
skunks, foxes, raccoons, groundhogs, and squirrels, or dangerous animals,
as defined herein, even though the owner of such wild animal or dangerous
animal desires to keep it as a pet.
Any domestic animal, including, but not limited to, horses,
cows, sheep, goats, pigs, hogs, and swine.
Any person owning or having a right of property to an animal,
or any person having the control and custody of an animal, or the
parent(s) or guardian(s) of any child under the age of 18 years who
owns or has the control and custody of an animal.
Any individual, partnership, company, association, society,
trust, or corporation, or other group or entity.
Any small animal, such as a rabbit, hare, or chinchilla.
That real property of the Town of Bloomsburg which is bounded
on the east by Catherine Street, on the south by the Susquehanna River,
on the west by Railroad Street, and on the north by Thirteenth Street
(unopened).
A public entertainment consisting typically of a variety
of performances by acrobats, clowns, and often trained animals, that
occurs under a tent over a period of not greater than seven days.
Any animal, including any mammal, bird, or reptile, not normally
or ordinarily domesticated; not normally or ordinarily raised in the
Town of Bloomsburg as livestock or for work or breeding purposes;
and not a household pet as defined above.
[1]
Editor's Note: This ordinance also repealed former Ch.
2, Animals, which included Part 1, Dog Control, adopted 10/9/1978
by Ord. 641, as amended, and Part 2, Prohibiting Dogs in the Bloomsburg
Town Park adopted 8/7/1989 by Ord. 715, as amended.
