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Unless it is clear from the context that a different meaning is intended, the following definitions shall apply:

“Animal” means any non-human living creature, whether wild or domesticated.

“Animal control officer” means an animal control officer or police officer employed by Provo City.

“Animal grooming parlor” means any establishment offering cosmetological services for animals and for profit.

“Animal holding facility” means any pet shop, kennel, cattery, grooming parlor, riding school, stable, animal shelter, veterinary hospital, humane establishment or any other such facility used for boarding animals.

“Animal shelter” means a facility owned or operated by a governmental entity or any animal welfare organization that is incorporated under the laws of the State of Utah and used for the care and custody of seized, stray, homeless, quarantined, abandoned or unwanted dogs, cats or other domestic animals.

“Animal at large” means any domesticated animal, whether or not licensed, not under restraint.

“Animal under restraint” means an animal on a leash or lead which is held by a person or attached to a stationary object, or confined within a vehicle, or confined upon the real property of the owner or custodian.

“Apiary” means any place where one (1) or more colonies of bees are located.

“Beekeeper” means a person who owns or has charge of one (1) or more colonies of bees.

“Beekeeping equipment” means anything used in the operation of an apiary, such as hive bodies, supers, frames, top and bottom boards, and extractors.

“Bite” means a puncture, tear or abrasion of the skin inflicted by the teeth of an animal.

“Cat” means a feline of the domesticated types.

“Cattery” means an establishment for boarding, breeding, buying, grooming or selling cats for profit.

“Colony” means bees in any hive including queens, workers, or drones.

“Custodian” means a person having the charge, care, custody or control of an animal which the person does not own.

“Dog” means any canis familiaries of the domesticated types.

“Domesticated animals” means animals domesticated by man so as to live and breed in a tame condition, including but not limited to cats, dogs, fowl, horses, cattle, swine, sheep, and goats.

“Emotional support animals” means animals that provide companionship, relieve loneliness, and help with depression, anxiety, and certain phobias, but do not have special training to perform tasks that assist people with disabilities. These do not qualify as service animals.

“Guard Dog” means a dog used for the purpose of deterring crime.

“Hive” means a frame hive, box hive, box, barrel, log, gum skep, or other artificial or natural receptacle which may be used to house bees.

“Honeybee” means the common honeybee, Apis mellifera species, at any stage of development, but not including the African honeybee, Apis mellifera scutellata species, or any hybrid thereof.

“Household pets” means animals or fowl ordinarily permitted in the house and kept for company or pleasure and not for profit, such as dogs, cats, rabbits, and canaries, but not including a sufficient number of dogs to constitute a kennel. Household pets shall not include barnyard animals, wild animals, miniature horses, miniature cows, miniature goats, chickens, or similar animals, nor any animals which are capable of inflicting harm or discomfort or endangering the health, safety, or welfare of any person or property.

“Kennel” means a premise where more than two (2) dogs or two (2) cats are raised, kept, housed, boarded or engaged in the commercial business of breeding.

“Leash or lead” means any chain, rope or device used to restrain an animal.

“Mason bee” means the common mason or blue orchard bee in the genus Osmia, of the family Megachilidae.

“Pet shop” means any establishment, not part of a kennel or cattery, containing cages or exhibition pens wherein dogs, cats, birds, or other pets for sale are kept or displayed.

“Quarantine” means the isolation of an animal in a substantial enclosure so that the animal is not subject to contact with other animals or unauthorized persons.

“Riding school or stable” means an establishment which offers boarding or riding instruction for any horse, pony, donkey, mule or burro or which offers such animals for hire.

“Service animals” means a “service animal” within the meaning of 28 C.F.R. § 35.104, as amended.

“Stray” means any “animal at large.”

“Vicious animal” is an animal:

(a) with a known propensity, tendency, or disposition to attack unprovoked, to cause injury to, or to otherwise endanger the safety of humans or other domestic animals; or

(b) which attacks a human being or other domestic animal without provocation; or

(c) which is trained or used to fight, or, to attack humans.

(d) This provision shall not apply to a dog owned or used by a government entity. Feeding a domesticated animal to a snake shall not make the snake a vicious animal.

“Wild animal” means all animals commonly accepted as being “wild” and includes, but is not limited to, the following, no matter how domesticated they may be:

(a) Alligators and crocodiles.

(b) Bears (ursidae).

(c) Cat family (felidae), except the commonly accepted domesticated cats.

(d) Coyotes, foxes and wolves, including the offspring of one of the foregoing with a domestic dog wherein the proportion of wild animal exceeds one-eighth (1/8th).

(e) Porcupine (erethizontiade).

(f) Nonhuman primates (hominidae).

(g) Raccoon (prosynnidae).

(h) Skunks.

(i) Venomous snakes or venomous lizards.

(j) Weasels (mustelidae), except “European” ferrets.

(Rep&ReEn 1987-44, Am 1996-18, Am 2002-22, Am 2006-45, Am 2007-33, Am 2011-01, Am 2011-02, Am 2021-33)