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Responsible Animal and Pet Ownership Care and Control Regulation Ordinance <br />Page 10 <br />(qq) Microchip implant: A passive electronic device that is injected into an animal by <br />means of a pre - packaged sterilized implanting device for purposes of identification <br />and /or the recovery of animals by their owner(s). <br />(rr) Medium or large reptile: A cold - blooded vertebrate including but not limited to iguanas, <br />monitors, snakes, and tortoises. <br />(ss)Microchip reader: An electronic device that detects any implanted microchip. <br />(tt) Owner /guardian: A person owning or harboring one (1) or more animals for a period of <br />longer than twenty -one (2 1) days; however, caretakers of free - roaming and /or community <br />cats shall not be deemed to be owners or guardians of such animals. 10 <br />(n u) Patron Contact: Any person acting within the realm of a guest, customer, visitor, <br />client, or the like to an establishment may not touch, handle, or physically interact in any <br />way with an exotic and /or dangerous animal, unless they are acting under the scope of <br />their legally sanctioned "enforcement authority" in each particular instance. <br />(vv) Person: An individual, firm, corporation or commercial establishment <br />r (ww) Pet: Any animal owned or harbored by any person, group of persons, partnership <br />or corporation, except service dogs, or police or canine governmental dogs. <br />(xx) Pet shop: Any person, group of persons, partnership or corporation, whether <br />operated separately or in connection with another business enterprise, except a licensed <br />cattery, kennel or breeders, that buys, sells or offers for sale any species of animal, <br />wholesale or retail. A permanent physical structure specifically designed and ventilated <br />for the overnight and long -term housing and sale of animals both wholesale and retail. <br />(yy) Potentially dangerous: Any of the following: <br />1. Any animal which, when unprovoked, on two (2) separate occasions within the <br />prior thirty -six (36) month period, engages in any behavior that requires a <br />defensive action by any person to prevent bodily injury when the person and the <br />animal are off of property owned, lawfully occupied or controlled by the <br />owner /guardian or keeper of the animal as documented by an enforcement <br />authority. <br />2. Any animal which, when unprovoked, bites a person causing an injury that is not a <br />severe injury, as defined below. <br />3. Any animal which, when unprovoked and off of property owned, lawfully <br />occupied or controlled by the owner /guardian or keeper of the animal, on two (2) <br />separate occasions within the prior thirty -six (36) month period, has bitten or <br />otherwise caused injury to a domestic animal that is not a severe injury, as defined <br />below as documented by an enforcement authority <br />'0 Indiana Code § 15- 20 -1 -2 defines "owner" as "...a person who possesses, keeps, or harbors a dog". <br />