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Handling means feeding, manipulating, transporting, restraining, treating, training, working or
<br />performing any similar activity with respect to a wild animal.
<br />Impound means to seize and hold in legal custody.
<br />Livestock means a typical farm animal kept for agricultural use, pleasure or profit, including but not
<br />limited to horses, mules, sheep, goats, cattle, swine, fowl, rabbits and mink.
<br />Lot means a tract, plat or portion of a subdivision or other parcel or land intended as a unit for the
<br />purpose, whether immediate or future, or transfer of ownership or for the building development.
<br />Owner means a person who keeps a wild animal or the parents or guardians of such a person under
<br />18 years of age.
<br />Portable primary enclosure means the portable structure used to confine a wild animal in a secure
<br />manner that prevents the running at large of a wild animal during transportation or temporarily confining
<br />such an animal during handling.
<br />Primary enclosure means an individual, partnership, firm, joint stock company, corporation,
<br />association, unincorporated association of individuals, trust, estate, or other entity.
<br />Restraint means the portable structure used to confine a wild animal in a secure manner that prevents
<br />the running at large of a wild animal during transportation or temporarily confining such an animal during
<br />handling.
<br />Secondary enclosure means a structure such as a fence, wall or building, which entirely encloses the
<br />area in which the primary enclosures, exercise facilities and training facilities are located and all handling
<br />activities occur. Such secondary enclosure serves to contain a wild animal from running at large and to
<br />prevent any unauthorized public access.
<br />Structure means anything constructed or erected, the use of which requires a permanent location on
<br />the ground or attachment to something having a permanent location on the ground, such as a fence, wall,
<br />or building.
<br />The keeping of wild animals means possessing and handling of wild animals on any property and
<br />providing such an animal with the necessities of life such as feeding and sheltering. The keeping of wild
<br />animals may include animals being used or intended to be used for research, training, breeding, boarding,
<br />as a personal pet, or for agricultural purposes. The keeping of a wild animal may also include wild animals
<br />intended to be used for exhibition providing that such animals are not exhibited within the city, such as in
<br />the case of a public showing, circus or zoo.
<br />Wild animal.
<br />(1) The term "wild animal" means a mammal, large or poisonous reptile and bird that, in their
<br />uncaptured wild state, have the physical capacity to be dangerous to the safety and welfare of
<br />any person or property. Examples of such wild animals are (but not limited to these examples)
<br />bears, lions, wolves, coyotes, cougars, bison, tigers, panthers, monkeys, apes, large alligators
<br />and crocodiles (greater than four feet in length), large snakes (greater than six feet), and
<br />poisonous snakes, excluding dogs, cats, other traditional house pets and livestock.
<br />(2) Reducing such mammals, reptiles and birds to captivity, whether trained, raised or bred in
<br />captivity or otherwise considered domesticated in any manner, shall not remove such wild animals
<br />from these requirements and regulations.
<br />(Code 1978, § 5.09.06, subd. 2; Ord. No. 87-08)
<br />Sec. 10-120. - Penalty.
<br />A person who fails to comply with or violates provisions of this Code or the restrictions of a conditional
<br />use permit or variance shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Appropriate actions and proceedings may be taken
<br />by law or inequity to prevent a violation of this article of the conditions or restrictions of a conditional use
<br />permit or variance, to prevent unlawful construction, to recover damages, to restrain, correct or abate a
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