2013 Idaho Statutes
Title 25 - ANIMALS
Chapter 35 - ANIMAL CARE
Section 25-3502 - DEFINITIONS.
(1) "Abandon" means to completely forsake and desert an animal previously under the custody or possession of a person without making reasonable arrangements for its proper care, sustenance and shelter.
(2) "Animal" means any vertebrate member of the animal kingdom, except man.
(3) "Animal care and control agency" means any agency incorporated under the laws of this state to which a county or municipality has conferred authority to exercise the powers and duties set forth in this chapter based upon the agency's ability to fulfill the purposes of this chapter.
(4) "Companion animal" means those animals including, but not limited to, domestic dogs, domestic cats, rabbits, companion birds, and other animals commonly kept as pets.
(5) "Cruel" or "cruelty" shall mean any or all of the following:
(6) "Department" means the Idaho state department of agriculture.
(7) "Department investigator" means a person employed by, or approved by, the Idaho state department of agriculture, division of animal industries, to determine whether there has been a violation of this chapter.
(8) "Division" means the division of animal industries of the Idaho state department of agriculture.
(9) "Custodian" means any person who keeps or harbors an animal, has an animal in his care or acts as caretaker of an animal.
(10) "Malicious" or "maliciously" means the intentional doing of a wrongful act without just cause or excuse, with an intent to inflict an injury or death.
(11) "Owner" means any person who has a right of property in an animal.
(12) "Person" means any individual, firm, corporation, partnership, other business unit, society, association or other legal entity, any public or private institution, the state of Idaho, or any municipal corporation or political subdivision of the state.
(13) "Pound" means a place enclosed by public authority for the detention of stray animals.
(14) "Production animal" means, for purposes of this chapter:
History:
[25-3502, added 1994, ch. 346, sec. 2, p. 1091; am. 1996, ch. 229, sec. 2, p. 745; am. 2006, ch. 170, sec. 3, p. 524; am. 2011, ch. 309, sec. 3, p. 877.]
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