For the purpose of this title, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
"Adequate water"means that a constant access to a supply of clean, fresh, potable water is provided in a sanitary manner or is provided at regular intervals for the species; never, however, to exceed 24 hours at any interval.
"Animal"includes, but is not limited to, birds, cats, dogs, fishes, fowl, rabbits, reptiles and nonhuman mammals and bovine and the like.
"Animal control officer"means the animal control officer or any other person authorized to enforce the provisions of this title.
"Animal shelter"means the Manteca animal shelter or any other facility designated by action of the council for the purpose of impounding and caring for all animals found in violation of this chapter, or surrendered to the city by their owners, and shall be a facility devoted to the welfare, protection and humane treatment of all animals.
"At large"shall mean:
1. General.The presence of any animal when it is off the premises of its owner and not restrained by a leash or tether under the control of a person physically capable of retaining control of the animal, or when the animal is on the premises of its owner and not restrained by a leash, tether, fence or other adequate enclosure sufficient to prevent ingress and egress of the animal or not under the control and/or the immediate presence of its owner;
2. Bitch in Heat.For the purposes of this provision, "at large" shall mean outside a house, vehicle or other enclosure adequate to prevent male dogs gaining access to the female dog.
"Butcher"means bleeding, eviscerating, skinning, splitting, cutting or carving the body or any portion of the body of an animal.
"Cat"means any member of the feline species (Felis Catus) customarily confined or cultivated by man as a pet.
"Coop"means a covered enclosure for the shelter of fowl.
"Curb"means to so restrain or control an animal that it does not defecate on property other than that of its owner except by the expressed consent of the owner of such other property.
"Dangerous animal"means any wild mammal, reptile or fowl which is not naturally tame or gentle, but is of a wild nature or disposition, and which, because of its size, vicious nature, or other characteristics, would constitute a danger to human life, other animals, or property. "Dangerous animal" shall also include any dog or other usually domesticated animal that, because of its vicious nature or other characteristics, constitutes a danger to human life, other animals or property.
"Dog"means any member of the canine species (Canis Familiaris) customarily confined or cultivated by man as a pet, but excludes other members of the family Canidae.
"Domestic animal"includes dogs, cats and birds, as well as horses, donkeys, mules, burros, cattle, sheep, goats, swine, rabbits and fowl commonly kept or raised as farm or livestock animals.
"Domestic bird"includes, but is not limited to, budgies, canaries, cardinals, cockatiels, cockatoos, finches, lories, lorikeets, lovebirds, macaws, parakeets, parrots, sparrows, toucans and weavers.
"Euthanasia"means the humane destruction of an animal accomplished by a method that involves instantaneous unconsciousness and immediate death, or by a method that involves anesthesia, produced by an agent which causes the painless loss of consciousness and death during such loss of consciousness by injection.
"Exotic"means any animal not normally kept as a domestic or household pet, fowl, livestock, and the like, including, but not limited to, lions, tigers and monkeys.
"Fowl"means any larger domestic bird such as a domesticated chicken, duck, goose, guinea fowl, peafowl, peacock, turkey, dove, pigeon, game bird or similar bird intended for human consumption or for the production of eggs for human consumption.
"Harbored"means the feeding or sheltering of an animal for three consecutive days or more.
"Horse"means an animal of the genus Equus, including, but not limited to, horses, mules, donkeys and burros.
"Household pets"means domestic animals ordinarily permitted in a place of residence, kept for Company and pleasure, such as dogs, cats, domestic birds, guinea pigs, white rats, rabbits, mice and other similar animals generally considered by the public to be kept as pets, excluding fowl. For one-family residences, three dogs maximum, three cats maximum, two rabbits maximum, domestic birds and other similar animals are permitted, where the total number animals in one place of residence shall not exceed ten. For multiple-family residences, including mobilehomes in mobilehome parks, one dog maximum, one rabbit maximum, two cats maximum, domestic birds and other similar animals are permitted, where the total number of animals in one place of residence shall not exceed five.
"Livestock"means animals kept for use on a farm and includes, but is not limited to, any swine, sheep, goat, horse, cattle, equine or bovine animal.
"Lot"means a single parcel of land for which a legal description is filed of record or the boundaries of which are shown on a subdivision map or record of survey filed in the office of the San Joaquin recorder.
"Owner"means a person who owns, possesses, harbors or controls an animal. In the case of a minor, the parents or guardians of the minor shall be deemed the owner. All adults 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.
"Ownership"means any person, keeping, harboring, controlling, having custody of, or possessing one or more animals for a period of not less than 72 hours.
"Person"means any individual, domestic or foreign corporation, partnership, association of any kind, trust, fraternal society or cooperative.
"Pet"means any animal kept for pleasure rather than utility.
"Physical control"means any animal confined or restrained by a leash, chain, rope or lead by a person of size and responsibility to adequately keep control of the animal or within the real property limits of its owner.
"Premises"means any lot or parcel of land owned, leased, or rented by a person.
"Public nuisance"means any animal which either:
1. Molests passersby or passing vehicles;
Attacks other animals or humans;
Trespasses on school or park grounds;
Damages private or public property;
Barks, whines or howls for not less than 15 minutes in any 60 minute period; provided, that at the time of the complaint no person or persons were trespassing or threatening to trespass upon the private property of the owner or the dog was not being teased or provoked in any manner;
Is allowed to run at large while in the stage of heat;
Is allowed to defecate or urinate on public property or on private property without the consent of the owner.
"Quarantine"means the isolation of any animal within a substantial enclosure to avoid its contact with other animals or unauthorized persons.
"Sanitize"means to make physically clean and remove and destroy to a practical minimum agents injurious to health.
"Stall"means a covered enclosure or shelter, barn, stable or other outbuilding for the shelter of livestock.
"Vaccination"means a protective inoculation against rabies with an anti-rabies vaccine recognized and approved by the San Joaquin County health department.
"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 dangerous animal that has inflicted serious injury or death upon any person, that has been found to have been trained as a fighting animal, or has been previously declared dangerous, as more particularly described in Section
6.20.060.
shall mean any of the following:
1. Any animal described in California Fish and Game Code Sections
2116 and
2118;
Any animal described, in any addition to Fish and Game Code Section
2118, by regulation of the Fish and Game Commission as provided in Section 2118 (j and k);
The following members of the Class Reptilia:
a. Order Ophidia (such as, but not limited to, racers, boas, water snakes and pythons) over eight feet in length,
Order Loricata (such as, but not limited to, alligators, caymans and crocodiles) over three feet in length,
Order Sauria (excepting iguanas) over three feet in length;
The following members of the Class Aves (birds):
a. Order Falconiformes including, but not limited to, hawks, eagles and vultures,
Subdivision Ratitae including, but not limited to, ostriches, rheas, cassowaries, and emus;
The following members of the Class Mammalia:
a. Order Carnivora, expressly excepting the domestic dog (Canis Familiaris) and the domestic cat (Felis Catus), but including, but not limited to, the family Felidae (such as ocelots, margays, tigers, jaguars, leopards and cougars), and the family Canidae (such as wolves, dingos, coyotes and jackals),
Order Marsupialia such as kangaroos and opossums,
Order Edentata such as sloths, anteaters and armadillos,
Order Proboscidea (elephants),
Order Primata including, but not limited to, monkeys, chimpanzees and gorillas,
Order Ungulata including, but not limited to, antelope, deer and bison,
Genus llama, Genus camelus;
Any nondomestic species when kept, maintained or harbored in such numbers or in such a manner as to constitute the likelihood of danger to the animals themselves, to human beings or to the property of human beings;
Any species of animal which is venomous to human beings whether its venom is transmitted by bite, sting, touch or other means, except honey-producing bees;
Any hybrid animal which is part wild animal and is capable of transmitting rabies, except livestock hybrids, and for which no rabies prophylaxis is recognized or authorized by the state;
A potentially dangerous or dangerous animal over which the owner has evidenced a failure to maintain control.
(Prior code § 91.002)