§ 14-62. Definitions.

At large means an animal in any public street, right-of-way, park or other public grounds or when off of the premises of the owner or person who has custody of the animal, and not under restraint or under the immediate control of the owner, or the person who has custody of the animal.

Bite means to be seized with the teeth or jaw so that a person or animal has been nipped, gripped, wounded or pierced and a saliva of the biting animal has or may have contacted the result of break or abrasion of the skin.

Dangerous animal or vicious animal means any animal that, according to the records of the City of Colquitt, the chief of police or any county department:

(1)

Inflicts a severe injury on a human being or another animal without provocation on public or private property at any time.

Owner means any natural person or any legal entity, including but not limited to a corporation, partnership, firm or trust, owning, possessing, harboring, keeping, or having custody or control of an animal within this county.

Potentially dangerous dog means any dog with a known propensity, tendency or disposition to attack unprovoked, to cause injury or to otherwise threaten persons without provocation; or any dog that, when unprovoked dogs:

(1)

Chases or approaches a human being or another domestic animal on any public or private property in a vicious or terrorizing manner in an apparent attitude of attack; or

(2)

Attempts to attack a human or another domestic animal.

Proper enclosure means an enclosure for keeping a dangerous dog or potentially dangerous dog while on the owner's property securely enclosed indoors or in a securely enclosed and locked pen, fence or structure suitable to prevent the entry of young children and designed to prevent the dog from escaping. Any such pen or structure shall have secure sides and a secure top; and, if the dog is enclosed with a fence, all sides of the fence shall be eight feet in height and the bottom of the fence constructed or secured in such a manner as to prevent the dog's escape either from over or from under the fence. Any such enclosure shall also provide protection from the elements for the dog.

(Ord. of 1-12-12)