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10. Foster Care Provider. A person who provides care or rehabilitation for companion animals through an affiliation
<br />with a public or private animal shelter, home -based rescue, releasing agency, or other animal welfare organization.
<br />11. Foster Home. A private residential dwelling and its surrounding grounds, or any facility other than a public or
<br />private animal shelter, at which site through an affiliation with a public or private animal shelter, releasing agency,
<br />or other animal welfare organization, care of rehabilitation is provided for companion animals.
<br />12. Great Bodily Harm. Bodily injury which creates a high probability of death, or which causes serious permanent
<br />disfigurement, or which causes a permanent or protracted loss or impairment of the function of any bodily member
<br />or organ or other serious bodily harm.
<br />13. Harborer. Any person, group of persons, corporation, or other legal entity having custody of one or more dogs,
<br />cats, or other animals or who permits one or more dogs, cats, or other domestic animals to be kept or to stay on or
<br />about the harborer's premises for a period of three (3) or more consecutive days.
<br />14. Heat. The period of time during which a female animal is in its Estrous Cycle.
<br />15. Kennel. Any place, building, tract of land, abode, or vehicle wherein or whereupon dogs or cats are kept,
<br />congregated, or confined, if the dogs or cats were obtained from municipalities, pounds, auctions, or by advertising
<br />for unwanted dogs or cats, or dogs or cats strayed, abandoned, or stolen. "Kennel" does not include a pound owned
<br />and operated by any political subdivision of the state or a person's home where dogs or cats are kept as pets.
<br />16. Owner. Any person, form, corporation, organization, or department possessing, harboring, keeping, having an
<br />interest in, or having care, custody, or control of a domestic animal.
<br />17. Personal Kennel. Any confinement or structure designed to contain and house up to three (3) domestic animals of
<br />various types which are owned by the occupants of the premises and which is located on and maintained by the
<br />occupant of the premises in residential districts for personal use only.
<br />18. Police. The police officers of the City or any person, firm or agency hired or engaged by the City to act in the
<br />capacity of police.
<br />19. Possess. To have custody of or have control over.
<br />20. Potentially Dangerous Dog. Any dog that has committed any of the acts set forth below:
<br />When unprovoked, inflicts bites on a human or domestic animal on public or private property.
<br />2. When unprovoked, chases or approaches a person, including a person on a bicycle, upon the streets,
<br />sidewalks, or any public or private property, other than the dog owner's property, in an apparent
<br />attitude of attack; or
<br />Has a known propensity, tendency, or disposition to attack unprovoked, causing injury or otherwise
<br />threatening the safety of humans or domestic animals.
<br />21. Premises. Any building, structure, shelter, or land wherein or whereon domestic animals are kept or confined.
<br />22. Proper Enclosure. "Proper enclosure" means securely confined indoors or in a securely enclosed and locked pen or
<br />structure suitable to prevent the animal from escaping and providing protection from the elements for the dog. A
<br />proper enclosure does not include a porch, patio, or any part of a house, garage, or other structure that would allow
<br />the dog to exit of its own volition, or any house or structure in which windows are open or in which door or window
<br />screens are the only obstacles that prevent the dog from exiting.
<br />23. Provocation. An act that an adult could reasonably expect may cause a dog to attack or bite.
<br />24. Restraint. An animal shall be considered under restraint if:
<br />In the case of a dog or cat, it is controlled by a leash, or, confinement within a vehicle being driven or
<br />parked; or, confinement within a suitably fenced area within the boundaries of the owners' or
<br />harborers' premises.
<br />25. Running at Large. An animal found outside the boundaries of the property of its owner or harborer when not under
<br />direct restraint.
<br />26. Service Animal. Any dog that is individually trained to do work or perform tasks for the benefit of an individual
<br />with a disability, including a physical, sensory, psychiatric, intellectual, or other mental disability.
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