Boonville Definitions ordinance (§ 4-2)

Animal control officer means the animal control officer of the city or his/her agent.

Animal shelter means the facility designated by the city administrator for the detention of animals.

At large. An animal is "at-large" when off the property of the owner or controlling party and unleashed. Dogs off their leash and supervised by their owner or controlling party in the city dog park shall not be considered running at large.

Dangerous exotic animal includes the following exotic animals:

(1) Lions, tigers, leopards, ocelots, jaguars, cheetahs, margays, mountain lions, Canada lynx, bobcats, jaguarundis, bears, hyenas, wolves, and coyotes.

(2) Deadly, dangerous, or venomous reptiles, and venomous arthropods.

(3) All nonhuman primates.

(4) Any other exotic animal declared by the Animal Control Officer to be dangerous.

Dangerous, vicious, or ferocious animal. Any animal which:

(1) Has caused death or serious injury to a person engaged in a lawful activity; or

(2) Without provocation, attacks, or bites, or has attacked or bitten, a human being or domestic animal; or

(3) Because of its size, physical characteristics and observed aggressive behavior toward a person or domestic animal is capable of inflicting serious physical injury or death on a human being; or

(4) Has a known propensity, tendency, or disposition to attack unprovoked, to cause injury to, or otherwise threaten the safety of human beings or domestic animals; or

(5) Has been trained for fighting or is owned or kept for the purpose of fighting; or

(6) Has been determined to be vicious by the municipal judge or pursuant to the procedures set forth in this chapter.

(7) No dog may be deemed a vicious animal under this chapter if a threat, injury or damage was sustained by a person who, at the time, was committing a willful trespass, or other tort upon the premises occupied by the owner or keeper of the dog, or if a person at the time of such threat, injury or damage was teasing, tormenting, abusing or assaulting the dog, or was threatening or committing an assault or other bodily harm to the owner, the owner's or keepers' immediate family or their invitees; furthermore, dogs used by commissioned officers for law enforcement shall not be deemed dangerous, vicious or ferocious for purposes of this chapter.

Eartipping means the removal of the one-fourth inch of a feral cat's ear to identify the cat as being sterilized and vaccinated for rabies.

Euthanize means the humane destruction of an animal by a method that involves anesthesia produced by an agent which causes painless loss of consciousness and death during loss of consciousness.

Exotic animal includes the following:

(1) Any mammal not generally accustomed to living in or near human populations.

(2) Any mammal not considered to be a member of the class generally referred to as domesticated animals.

(3) Venomous reptiles and venomous arthropods.

(4) All nonhuman primates.

(5) All animals listed on the endangered species list as designated by the U.S. Department of Interior in the Endangered Species Act of 1969.

(6) All animals protected from hunting and capture by federal and state law.

(7) All predatory birds.

Failure to control Failure on the part of an owner, competent person or controlling party to exercise adequate control over or properly govern the behavior of an animal to the point that the animal bites, attacks or injures a person or other domestic animal; chases, lashed out at or approaches a person in a menacing fashion; or exhibits an unprovoked threat of attacking or biting a person, domestic animal, or farm animal.

Fowl means any and all fowl, domesticated or wild, male or female, single or plural.

Impound means to take into custody any animal, by any humane means, for the purposes of confinement.

Livestock means any fowl, cow, pony, horse, pig Sanitary means clean and free from infectious or deleterious influences

Trap-neuter-release means the process of humanely trapping, sterilizing, vaccinating for rabies, eartipping and releasing feral cats to their original location.