In this chapter, unless the context or subject matter otherwise requires, the following terms shall have the meaning indicated:
ANIMAL Mammals, reptiles and birds.
AT LARGE To be off the premises of the owner and not under the control of some person by leash, but a dog or cat within an automobile of its owner, or in an automobile of any other person with the consent of the owner of said dog or cat, shall be deemed to be upon the owner's premises.
CAT Any feline, regardless of age or sex.
CITY The City of Arcadia, Wisconsin.
CRUEL Causing unnecessary and excessive pain or suffering or unjustifiable injury or death.
DOG Any canine, regardless of age or sex.
FARM ANIMAL Any warm-blooded animal normally raised on farms in the United States and used for food or fiber.
KENNEL Any property, including without limitation a home, farm or business, wherein or whereon more than three dogs are kept on a regular basis, and which contains permanent facilities to house more than three dogs.
LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER That meaning as appears in § 967.02(5), Wis. Stats., and includes a humane officer, as defined under § 173.03, Wis. Stats., but does not include a conservation warden appointed under § 23.10, Wis. Stats.
NEUTERED As used herein as describing a dog or cat, shall mean a dog or cat having nonfunctional reproductive organs.
OWNER Any person owning, harboring or keeping a dog or cat and the occupant of any premises on which a dog or cat remains or to which it customarily returns daily for a period of 10 days; such person is presumed to be harboring or keeping the dog or cat within the meaning of this chapter.
PET An animal kept and treated as a pet.
SERVICE ANIMAL Any dog that is individually trained to do work or perform tasks for the benefit of an individual with a disability, including a physical, sensory, psychiatric, intellectual, or other mental disability. Other species of animals, whether wild or domestic, trained or untrained, are not service animals for the purposes of this definition. The work or tasks performed by a service animal must be directly related to the handler's disability. Examples of work or tasks include, but are not limited to, assisting individuals who are blind or have low vision with navigation and other tasks, alerting individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing to the presence of people or sounds, providing nonviolent protection or rescue work, pulling a wheelchair, assisting an individual during a seizure, alerting individuals to the presence of allergens, retrieving items such as medicine or the telephone, providing physical support and assistance with balance and stability to individuals with mobility disabilities, and helping persons with psychiatric and neurological disabilities by preventing or interrupting impulsive or destructive behaviors.
The City Clerk-Treasurer shall assess and collect a late fee established by the Common Council by resolution from every owner of a dog five months of age or over if the owner failed to obtain a license prior to February 1 of each year, or within 30 days of acquiring ownership of a licensable dog, or if the owner failed to obtain a license on or before the day the dog reached licensable age. Said late fee shall be charged in addition to the required license fee.
No dog or cat shall be permitted in any public cemetery. Every dog specially trained as a service animal shall be exempt from this section.
Every owner or person harboring or keeping a dog or cat who knows that such dog or cat has bitten any person shall immediately report such fact to the Police Department and shall keep such dog or cat confined for not less than 14 days or for such period of time as the Police Department shall direct. The owner or keeper of any such dog or cat shall surrender the dog or cat to a law enforcement officer upon demand for examination.
The owner or person in charge of any dog or other animal shall not permit solid fecal matter of such animal to deposit on any street, alley or other public or private property, unless such matter is immediately removed therefrom by said owner or person in charge. This section shall not apply to a person who is visually or physically handicapped.
It shall be unlawful for any person owning or possessing an animal, dog or cat to permit such animal, dog or cat to go upon any parkway or private lands or premises without the permission of the owner of such premises and break, bruise, tear up, crush or injure any lawn, flowerbed, plant, shrub, tree or garden in any manner whatsoever, or to defecate thereon.
No person except a law enforcement officer in the pursuit of his duties shall, within the City, shoot or kill or commit an act of cruelty to any animal or bird or disturb any bird's nest or bird's eggs. This section does not apply to any lawful trapping under §
146-16 of this chapter, including the killing of animals so trapped.
The operator of any vehicle involved in an accident resulting in injury to or death of a dog, cat or other animal which appears to be a pet shall immediately notify the Police Department or an animal control agency the jurisdiction of which extends into the City.