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2017 Docket Enabling Ordinance January 2, 2018
<br />Ord. # 2018-001
<br />Page 76
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<br /> owner's property.
<br /> (c) Has displayed aggressive behavior, attacked, or endangered the safety of humans
<br /> or domestic animals after such dog has been determined by an appropriate
<br /> authority, including but not limited to any officer of the county dog control
<br /> department, to be potentially dangerous, and the owner of such dog has been
<br /> notified, either orally or in writing that the dog has been determined to be
<br /> potentially dangerous.
<br />11. "Department" means the Kittitas County Sheriff’s Office .
<br />12. "Livestock" means cattle, sheep, horses, llamas, buffalo, deer, elk, rabbits, mules,
<br /> donkeys, goats, swine, fowl, poultry, and any fur-bearing animal bred and maintained
<br /> commercially or otherwise within pens, fences, cages or hutches.
<br />13. "Microchip" means a device implanted for identification purposes.
<br />14. "Nuisance" means any unlawful act, or failure to perform a duty, which act or failure
<br /> either annoys, injures, or endangers the comfort, repose, health or safety of other persons, or interferes with
<br />other persons' use of property.
<br />15. "Owner" means any person or legal entity who knowingly harbors, keeps, possesses or maintains an animal,
<br />or who encourages an animal to remain about their property for a period of 72 hours or more, or who is the person
<br />named on the license/registration record of any animal as the owner. The parent or guardian of an owner under
<br />eighteen years of age shall be deemed the owner for the purposes of this chapter.
<br />16. "Permit" means and includes human conduct that is intentional, deliberate, careless, inadvertent or negligent
<br />in relation to any animal owned by the person.
<br />17. "Person" means any individual or natural person at least 18 years of age, association, firm, partnership,
<br />corporation or other legal entity.
<br />18. "Physical Injury" means impairment of physical condition or substantial pain which is directly caused by a
<br />dog’s behavior, and includes scratches, scrapes, cuts, punctures or other evidence of physical injury, but n ot to
<br />include dog bite or bites.
<br />19. "Potentially Dangerous Dog" means:
<br /> (a) Any dog that without provocation:
<br /> (i) Bites or otherwise injures a human person or a domestic animal on either public
<br /> or private property; or
<br /> (b) Any dog which reasonably should be known by its owner to be disposed:
<br /> (i) To attack or chase or approach persons in a menacing fashion or apparent
<br /> attitude of aggression or attack without provocation; or
<br /> (ii) To cause injury, or otherwise threaten the safety of humans or domestic
<br /> animals.
<br /> (c) Any dog at large in a pack of three or more.
<br />20. "Premises" means the area of land to which a person has legal or equitable rights of
<br /> possession, use and control.
<br />21. "Quarantine area" means any area defined by, but not limited to, a veterinarian,
<br /> physician, public health official, or Animal Control Officer, where, for a specified
<br /> period of time, a dog is to be kept separated from other animals or people.
<br />22. "Secure enclosure" means secure confinement of a dangerous dog or a potentially
<br /> dangerous dog on its owner's premises, either indoors or in a securely enclosed and
<br /> locked pen or structure, suitable to prevent the entry of young children and designed to
<br /> prevent the animal from escaping. Such pen or structure shall have secure sides, a
<br /> secure top and a secure bottom, and shall also provide protection from the elements for
<br /> the dog.
<br />23. "Serious physical injury" means any physical injury which creates a substantial risk of death or causes
<br />permanent loss or protracted impairment of any bodily organ or function, or substantial disfigurement.
<br />24. "Severe injury" means any physical injury that results in broken bones or disfiguring
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