Amending Chapter 5 Commonly known as Animals & Fowl

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(aa) RESTRAINT means the securing of an animal by leash or lead or confining it within the real property limits of its owner or agent. (bb) RIDING SCHOOL OR STABLE means any place that has available for hire, boarding, and/or riding instruction, any horse, pony, donkey, mule or burrow. (cc) RODEO means a performance featuring bronco riding, steer wrestling, calf roping, greased pig contest, or bull riding. (dd) STRAY means any animal that is not under restraint and or upon reasonable inquiry by a humane officer does not appear to have an owner. (ee) VETERINARIAN means any person licensed and accredited to practice veterinary medicine in the State of Indiana. (ff ) VICIOUS ANIMAL means any animal that has, without provocation, attacked a human being or other animal, or an animal that by its behavior or physical condition constitutes an immediate and serious physical or health threat to human beings or animals, or any animal which has previously attacked or bitten any human being or other animal on two (2 ) or more reported occasions. (gg) WILD ANIMALS means any animal not a domestic or exotic animal, with the exception of small, nonpoisonous aquatic or amphibious animals and small cage birds, which are normally found in the wild state. (hh) ZOOLOGICAL PARK means any facility, other than a pet shop or kennel displaying or exhibiting one or more species of non-domesticated animals operated by a person, partnership, corporation or governmental agency and is property zoned for such use. Sec. 5-2 Reserved for Future Use Article 2 . Animal Control Commission Sec. 5-3 Establishment and Duties of the Animal Control Commission. The Animal Control Commission is established and shall have the following duties : (a) Shall report to or be responsible to the Mayor and the Common Council. (b) To recommend proposed policies, principles, standards and regulations for the control and humane treatment of all animals in the City. (c) To review and to make recommendations on the improved enforcement of the terms of this Chapter and to the Common Council as to ordinances necessary for the care and treatment of all animals in the City. (d) To review the performance of any agency hired by the City, and agencies of the City in any matter related to the enforcement of this ordinance. (e) To receive reports from the Humane Society, Police Department, Code Enforcement Department, and Street Department involving animal control. •