<div class="chunk-title">Sec. 5-51. - Definitions and procedures.</div>
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               (a)
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               As used in this article, unless the context clearly requires otherwise and except
               as modified in subsection (b), the term:
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               <span class="ital">Dangerous dog</span> means:
               
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                  (1)
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                  A dog that:
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                  a.
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                  Without provocation has killed or inflicted severe injury on a person; or
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                  b.
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                  Is determined by the health director to be potentially dangerous because the dog has
                  engaged in one or more of the behaviors listed in this section.
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                  (2)
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                  Any dog owned or harbored primarily or in part for the purpose of dog fighting, or
                  any dog trained for dog fighting.
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               <span class="ital">Potentially dangerous dog</span> means a dog that the person or board designated by the county to be responsible for
               animal control determines to have:
               
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                  (1)
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                  Inflicted a bite on a person that resulted in broken bones or disfiguring lacerations
                  or required cosmetic surgery or hospitalization; or
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                  (2)
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                  Killed or inflicted severe injury upon a domestic animal when not on the owner's real
                  property; or
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                  (3)
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                  Approached a person when not on the owner's property in a vicious or terrorizing manner
                  in an apparent attitude of attack.
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               <span class="ital">Owner</span> means any person or legal entity that has a possessory property right in a dog.
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               <span class="ital">Owner's real property</span> means any real property owned or leased by the owner of the dog, but does not include
               any public right-of-way or a common area of a condominium, apartment complex, or townhouse
               development.
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               <span class="ital">Severe injury</span> means any physical injury that result in broken bones or disfiguring lacerations
               or required cosmetic surgery or hospitalization.
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               (b)
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               The provisions of this article do not apply to:
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               (1)
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               A dog being used by a law enforcement officer to carry out the law enforcement officer's
               official duties;
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               (2)
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               A dog being used in a lawful hunt;
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               (3)
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               A dog where the injury or damage inflicted by the dog was sustained by a domestic
               animal while the dog was working as a hunting dog, herding dog, or predator control
               dog on the property of, or under the control of, its owner or keeper, and the damage
               or injury was to a species or type of domestic animal appropriate to the work of the
               dog; or
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               (4)
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               A dog where the injury inflicted by the dog was sustained by a person who, at the
               time of the injury, was committing a willful trespass or other tort, was tormenting,
               abusing, or assaulting the dog, had tormented, abused, or assaulted the dog, or was
               committing or attempting to commit a crime.
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               (Ord. of 6-17-2013(1))
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