The definitions set forth in this section govern the application and interpretation of this title.
means an animal that is left without proper and necessary care, including but not limited to proper and adequate food, water, shelter or veterinary care for the animal's well-being for twenty-four hours or an unreasonable period of time as determined by an animal control officer, police officer, or other safety officer. "Abandoned animal" shall also mean any animal lawfully impounded by the city for which the owner or custodian has not paid fees, rates or charges relating to the detention of the animal.
means the person authorized by the city manager, by designation, delegation or contract, to administer or enforce the provisions of this title and applicable state laws pertaining to the care, destruction, impoundment, licensing, and treatment of animals.
includes, but is not limited to, any mammal, fowl, bird, reptile, or fish.
means any person authorized by the administrator to enforce the provisions of this title and applicable state laws pertaining to the care, destruction, impoundment, licensing, and treatment of animals.
means any place where wild, exotic or inherently dangerous animals are boarded, trained, exhibited, kept, kept for hire, or maintained for any commercial purpose.
means any person or organization that provides temporary housing and care for domestic animals with the purpose of placing those animals with a new and permanent owner and that provides evidence satisfactory to the administrator of a history of active placement or an affiliation with a recognized organization with a history of active placement.
means a facility operated by a public entity 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.
means the presence of any animal when it is off the premises of its owner or custodian and not restrained by a six-foot leash under the control of a person physically capable of restraining control of the animal, or when it is on the premises of its owner or custodian and not restrained by a six-foot leash, fence or other adequate enclosure sufficient to prevent ingress and egress of the animal, or when it is not under the control and/or the immediate presence of its owner or custodian.
means any substance which could reasonably be expected to attract an animal or does attract an animal, including, but not limited to, garbage, food products, pet food, feed, grain, or salt.
mean honey-producing insects of the species Apis mellifera, including the adults, eggs, larvae, pupae, or other immature states thereof, together with such materials as are deposited into hives by their adults, except honey and rendered beeswax.
means any structure having a roof supported by columns or walls for the shelter, housing or enclosure of persons, animals, chattels or property of any kind.
means a domesticated feline (felis catus).
means a well fitted device, worn around the neck, appropriate to the age and size of the animal.
means any person who is not the owner, but has been entrusted by the owner to provide care for or have control of an animal, or to act on the owner's behalf, financially or otherwise.
means any animal, except a police dog, which:
Without provocation inflicts bites on a human or a domestic animal while on public or private property;
Without provocation chases or approaches humans or domestic animals on the streets, sidewalks, or any public grounds in a threatening manner or apparent attitude of attack;
Has a known propensity, tendency or disposition for unprovoked attack, causing injury or threatening the safety of humans or domestic animals;
Has been declared potentially dangerous, dangerous or vicious in another jurisdiction;
Is not licensed pursuant to state, county or city law; or
Has been certified by a doctor of veterinary medicine, after observation thereof, as posing a danger to human life or property if not kept in the manner required by this title upon the basis of reasonable medical probability.
means a domesticated canine (Canis familiaris).
means one or more rooms designed as a unit for occupancy for the purpose of cooking, living and sleeping.
means any organized animal conformation or agility type competition registered or chaptered with a nationally recognized organization.
means any domesticated bird such as a chicken, duck, goose, guinea fowl, peafowl, peacock, turkey, dove, pigeon, game bird or similar bird.
means any commercial place where animals are trimmed, bathed, or groomed.
means the county of Santa Clara director of public health or any other person duly authorized to act on behalf of the health officer.
means any movable frame box designed and used for keeping bees and/or storage of honey, having no more than one bee entrance, one brood chamber, and four honey storage ("super") chambers.
means any building, structure, enclosure or premises whereupon or within which five or more dogs or cats or both dogs and cats are kept for any reason or purpose. The term does not include dogs or cats under one hundred twenty days of age. "Kennel" also includes any person or facility that maintains such animals for commercial breeding to sell, individually or in litter lots; allow the parturition or rearing of more than one litter from all dogs and cats on the premises in any twelve consecutive months; or boards, trains or hires dogs and/or cats for compensation. Animal hospitals with a valid veterinary premises permit maintained by a veterinarian licensed by the state of California as part of the practice of veterinary medicine or animal shelters are not kennels.
means all domestic or domesticated bovine, equine, caprine, ovine, porcine, corvine and ratite animals.
means any person who owns an animal, or who harbors, keeps or has possession or custody of an animal for five or more consecutive days. All adults over eighteen years of age residing at the same property address shall be rebuttably presumed to be the owner of any animal owned, possessed, harbored or controlled on the property.
includes any individual, firm, association, organization, partnership, business trust, corporation or company.
means any animal kept for pleasure rather than utility.
means a person or facility that obtains or keeps live animals for sale, exchange, barter, or hire to the general public as a principal or agent, or on consignment.
means any dog, especially trained for assistance to law enforcement officers, which is under the control of a law enforcement officer in the performance of official duties, including training and exercise.
means any lot, parcel of land, or building owned, leased or rented by a person.
means an animal specially trained to perform tasks for an individual with a disability, and as defined in the Americans with Disabilities Act.
includes but is not limited to hares, rabbits, chickens, turkeys, geese, ducks, doves, pigeons, game birds or other fowl.
means a protective inoculation against rabies with an anti-rabies vaccine recognized and approved by the California Department of Public Health.
means any establishment maintained and operated by a veterinarian licensed by the state of California for the care and treatment of animals.
means any wild, exotic, dangerous or venomous animal. The term wild animal shall not include bees when kept in conformance with the standards set forth in Chapter 6.08.
means any organization which exhibits animals to the general public at regular specified hours, equaling at least thirty hours a week for thirty-six weeks a year, and whose animals, whether maintained for exhibit purposes or not, are not for sale to private individuals.
(Ord. 3146-19 § 1)