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258.095 Definitions for KRS 258.095 to 258.500.
As used in KRS 258.095 to 258.500, unless the context requires otherwise:
(1) "Department" means the Department of Agriculture;
(2) "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Agriculture;
(3) "Board" means the Animal Control Advisory Board created by KRS 258.117;
(4) "Dog" means any domestic canine, six (6) months of age or older;
(5) "Owner," when applied to the proprietorship of a dog, includes every person
having a right of property in the dog and every person who keeps or harbors
the dog, or has it in his care, or permits it to remain on or about premises
owned or occupied by him;
(6) "Attack" means a dog's attempt to bite or successful bite of a human being.
This definition shall not apply to a dog's attack of a person who has illegally
entered or is trespassing on the dog owner's property in violation of KRS
511.060, 511.070, 511.080, or 511.090;
(7) "Vicious dog" means any individual dog declared by a court to be a vicious
dog;
(8) "Animal control officer" means an individual who is employed or appointed by,
or has contracted with:
(a) A city, county, urban-county, charter county, or consolidated local
government to enforce the provisions of this chapter, the provisions of the
Kentucky Revised Statutes relating to cruelty, mistreatment, or torture of
animals, and local animal control ordinances; or
(b) An entity that has contracted with a city, county, urban-county, charter
county, or consolidated local government to enforce the provisions of this
chapter, the provisions of the Kentucky Revised Statutes relating to
cruelty, mistreatment, or torture of animals, and local animal control
ordinances;
(9) "Designated license facility" means any person, facility, or business designated
by resolution of the governing body of the county to collect license fees under
KRS 258.135;
(10) "Cat" means any domestic feline three (3) months of age or older;
(11) "Ferret" means any domestic musteline three (3) months of age or older;
(12) "Euthanasia" means the act of putting an animal to death in a humane manner
by methods specified as acceptable for that species by the most recent report
of the American Veterinary Medical Association Panel on Euthanasia, subject
to the requirements provided by KRS 258.505;
(13) "Animal shelter" means any facility used to house or contain animals, operated
or maintained by a governmental body, incorporated humane society, animal
welfare society, society for the prevention of cruelty to animals, or other
nonprofit organization;
(14) "Quarantine" means the confinement of an animal for observation of clinical
signs of illness indicating rabies infection, and the prevention of escape or
contact with any person or other animal;
(15) "Livestock" means poultry; ratites; and cervine, bovine, ovine, porcine, caprine,
or equine animals that are privately owned and raised in a confined area for
breeding stock, food, fiber, or other products; and
(16) "Poultry" means chickens, ducks, turkeys, or other domestic fowl.
Effective:July 13, 2004
History: Amended 2004 Ky. Acts ch. 189, sec. 11, effective July 13, 2004. -Amended 2000 Ky. Acts ch. 179, sec. 1, effective July 14, 2000. -- Amended
1998 Ky. Acts ch. 440, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1998. -- Created 1954 Ky. Acts
ch. 119, sec. 12, effective June 17, 1954.
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