Chapter 6.08
DEFINITIONS
Sections:
6.08.010 Definitions.
As used in this title, except where a different meaning is plainly apparent from the context, the following definitions apply:
A. “Administrative fee” means the charge levied by the animal control authority’s animal shelter for apprehending an animal and placing it in its custody.
B. “Alter” means to permanently render an animal incapable of reproduction for medical reasons, whether or not surgically altered.
C. “Animal” means all vertebrates except homo sapiens.
D. “Animal control authority” means any organization, whether private or public, that the city of Entiat may contract with for the control of animals within the city limits and for the enforcement of this title.
E. “City” means the city of Entiat.
F. “Dangerous animal” means any animal other than a cat or dog determined by the director, following a hearing, to be a risk to human health or safety or health or safety of other animals.
G. “Dangerous dog” means any dog that according to the records of the appropriate authority:
1. Has inflicted severe injury on a human being without provocation on public or private property;
2. Has killed a domestic animal without provocation while off the owner’s property; or
3. Has been previously found to be potentially dangerous, the owner having received notice of such and the dog again aggressively bites, attacks, or endangers the safety of humans or domestic animals.
H. “Department” means the department of the animal control authority and animal shelter.
I. “Detained” means to apprehend and/or keep an animal in custody.
J. “Director” means the director of the animal control authority.
K. “Exotic animal” means any animal which is not commonly domesticated or which is not native to or usually found in the United States.
L. “Humane manner” means adopted or euthanized by an overdose of sodium phenobarbital.
M. “Guard dog or attack dog” means any member of a dog family canine not owned by a government agency which has been trained and is used for the purpose of protecting persons or property by exhibiting hostile and aggressive behavior or which will attack on signal or command.
N. “Holding period” means 72 hours, commencing at 1:00 a.m. following the date of detainment of any animal, excluding any day the animal shelter or other facility for detaining is not open to the public.
O. “Humane officer” means any employee of the animal control authority.
P. “Owner” means a person who harbors, keeps, causes or permits an animal to be harbored or kept, or who has an animal in his or her possession or custody, or who permits an animal to remain on or about his or her premises, or who has legal title to the animal.
Q. “Permit” means human conduct in relation to an owned animal which is intentional, deliberate, careless, inadvertent or negligent.
R. “Potentially dangerous dog” means any dog that when unprovoked: (a) inflicts bites on a human or a domestic animal either on public or private property, or (b) chases or approaches a person upon the streets, sidewalks, or any public grounds in a menacing fashion or apparent attitude of attack, or any dog with a known propensity, tendency, or disposition to attack unprovoked, to cause injury, or to otherwise threaten the safety of humans or domestic animals.
S. “Trespassing” means an animal which enters upon property owned by another without the authorization of the lawful occupant. (Ord. 862 § 1 (Exh. A), 2023)