04-28-14 Council Agenda & Packet

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Responsible Animal and Pet Ownership Care and Control Regulation Ordinance Page 5 (a) Abandon: To knowingly, intentionally, or recklessly leave unattended, without proper food, water, or shelter, for 24 hours or more, in or about a building or structure or any portion thereof on or about any propert y.2 (b) Adequate shelter: A structure designed specifically to shelter an animal that allows an animal to maintain its body heat, with a roof, structured floor and three sides free of leaks or openings to the wind and rain, and a fourth side allowing access that is protected from the elements. The structure is physically located in a dry area allowing the animal dry keeping and access outside the structure to dry ground that is mud free. Livestock require a structure with three sides and a roof designed to protect from the elements. (c) Altered animah An animal that has been operated on to prevent it from procreating. (d) Animal: Any living vertebrate, domestic or wild, except a human being.' (e) Animal Concession: Any person, group of persons, partnership, or corporation who for compensation has any animal available for hire or on display. (f) Animal Control Commission: The Animal Control Commission shall be an advisory Commission with regard to policy and fiscal decisions affecting the Division of Animal Care and Control, with the Common Council having final authority regarding fiscal matters. (g) Animal Control Officer: A person authorized to carry out the provisions of this Chapter. (h) Animal event: Display, activity or show of wild or domestic animals in a shopping center, retail establishment, adjacent lot, or elsewhere. (i) Animal fighting paraphernalia: Equipment or items used to train or condition animals for participation in an animal fighting contest or materials to promote animal fighting, the breeding of animals specifically for the purpose of fighting, train animals for fighting, or to track the results of animal frghts.4 0) Animal hoarder: Any person who: 1. Having one or more than animals and failing to provide adequate standards of nutrition, sanitation, shelter, and veterinary care, with this neglect often resulting in illness and death from starvation, spread of infectious disease, and untreated injury or medical condition, or 2.Denial of the inability to provide this minimum care and the impact of that failure on the animals, the household, and human occupants of the dwelling, or ' Indiana Code § 25- 38.1 -4 -8 sets forth regulations addressing "abandoned animals" and the role of a veterinarian. Indiana Code § 35- 46 -3 -7, Version A addresses abandonment or neglect effective through July 1, 2014 and Indiana Code § 35- 46 -3 -7, Version B sets forth regulations addressing abandonment and neglect which become effective July 1, 2014. 'Indiana Code § 25- 38.1 -1 -5 defines an animal as including "birds, fish, mammals and reptiles wild or domestic ". Indiana Code § 35- 46 -3 -4.3 defines "animal fighting paraphernalia ".