Amending Chapter 5 Commonly known as Animals & Fowl

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Hawaii, except fish and fur bearing animals commercially bred for the furrier trade and birds defined under federal regulations, and non-poisonous snakes and repitles. (o) EXPOSED TO RABIES means any human or non-human warm blooded mammal that has been bitten or in contact with any other animal known or reasonably suspected to have been infected with rabies. (p) FOWL means any kind of wild or domestic bird, excluding homing or racing pigeons, canaries, parrots, or similar types of birds kept in cages. (q) GUIDE DOGS mean dogs trained to assist the handicapped. (r) HARBORING means the actions of any person that permit any animal habitually to remain or lodge or to be fed within his home, store, enclosure, yard, or place of business or any premises on which such person resides or controls. An animal shall be presumed harbored if it is fed or sheltered for three (3) consecutive days. (s) HUMANE OFFICER(S) means any person(s) and/or agency designated by the State of Indiana, St. Joseph County, or the City, as a person(s) who is qualified to perform the duties required by the law of this City and State regarding animals. (t) KENNEL means any premises wherein any person engages in the business of boarding, breeding, buying, letting or keeping of more than three (3) dogs for hire, training for a fee, or selling; and which is zoned for such commercial purposes. (u) OWNER means any person age eighteen (18) years or older owning or harboring one or more animals. (v) PERFORMING ANIMAL EXHIBITION means any spectacle, display, act, or event other than circuses, in which performing animals are used. (w) PET means any animal kept for pleasure rather than utility. (x) PET SHOP means any person, group of persons, partnership or corporation whether operated separately or in connection with another business enterprise. (y) PUBLIC NUISANCE means any animal or animals which: (1) Interferes with passerbys or passing vehicles. (2) Attacks other animals or persons. (3) Is at-large. (4) Damages private or public property. (5) Causes frequent or long continued noises or other sounds common to its species which disturbs the comfort or repose of any person in the immediate neighborhood. (6) Causes foul or noxious odors which offend residents in the neighborhood. (z) RABIES VACCINATION means the injection, by a licensed veterinarian, of a dog, cat or other animal with a rabies vaccine licensed by the U.S.D.A. and approved by the Indiana State Board of Health.