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Article IV.
<br /> GOOD REPAIR. Free of corrosion, breaks, cracks, chips, pitting, excessive wear and tear, leaks, obstructions and similar
<br />defects so as to constitute a good and sound condition.
<br /> GREAT BODILY HARM. Bodily injury which creates a high probability of death, or which causes serious permanent
<br />disfigurement, or which causes a permanent or protracted loss or impairment of the function of any bodily member or organ,
<br />or other serious bodily harm.
<br /> HEALTH AUTHORITY. The City of Bloomington Environmental Health Division or designee.
<br /> HEARING OFFICER. An impartial person retained by the city to conduct the hearings prescribed in this Article IV.
<br /> ISSUING AUTHORITY. The City of Bloomington License Section or designee.
<br /> OWN. To keep, harbor or have control, charge or custody of an animal. This term shall not apply to animals owned by
<br />others which are temporarily maintained on the premises of a veterinarian or other pet services facility operator.
<br /> OWNER. Any person owning, possessing, keeping, harboring or having an interest in or having care, custody or control of
<br />an animal, excluding veterinarians or pet services facility operators temporarily maintaining an animal on their premises
<br />where the animal is owned by another.
<br /> OTHER ANIMAL KEPT AS A PET. An animal other than a dog, cat or ferret for which a rabies vaccine is licensed for the
<br />species by the United States Department of Agriculture. An animal that is deemed a prohibited wild animal pursuant to
<br />Division E of this Article IV shall not be kept as a pet even though a rabies vaccine is licensed for the animal and such an
<br />animal shall not be included in the definition of OTHER ANIMAL KEPT AS A PET.
<br /> PERFORMING ANIMAL EXHIBITION. Any commercial spectacle, display, act or event in which performing animals are
<br />used.
<br /> PERSON. One or more natural persons, a partnership, including a limited partnership, a corporation, including a foreign,
<br />domestic or nonprofit corporation, a trust or any other business organization.
<br /> PET. See DOMESTIC ANIMAL.
<br /> PET SERVICES FACILITY. A business establishment that provides any of the following services or retail activity either
<br />individually or in combination, for pets and domestic animals: sales, animal sales, veterinary care, animal hospital, short-
<br />term daily care, training classes, boarding and grooming.
<br /> PET SHOP. Any person , whether operated separately or in connection with another business enterprise, that buys,
<br />exhibits or sells any species of domestic animal.
<br /> PICKET. To secure an animal by means of a chain or metallic cable to a fixed object, thereby confining the animal to a
<br />specified area.
<br /> POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS ANIMAL. Any animal that:
<br /> (1) When unprovoked, inflicts bites on a human or domestic animal on public or private property;
<br /> (2) When unprovoked, chases or approaches a person , including a person on a bicycle, upon the streets, sidewalks or
<br />any public or private property, other than the dog owner’s property, in an apparent attitude of attack; or
<br /> (3) Has a known propensity, tendency or disposition to attack unprovoked, causing injury or otherwise threatening the
<br />safety of humans or domestic animals .
<br /> PROVOCATION. An act that an adult could reasonably expect may cause an animal to attack or bite.
<br /> RABID ANIMAL. An animal showing signs associated with rabies that are observed and reported by a veterinarian , or an
<br />animal diagnosed as positive for rabies by a recognized laboratory, or both. Any skunk, wolf, wolf hybrid, civet cat, raccoon,
<br />opossum, bat or fox that bites a dog or cat shall be deemed to be a rabid animal for the purposes of this Article IV.
<br /> RABIES CONTROL AUTHORITY. The Bloomington Police Department having oversight and control over the city’s animal
<br />control officers or designee.
<br /> RABIES SUSPECT. Any animal which is considered as a potentially rabid animal under guidelines of the United States
<br />Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Minnesota Department of Health, which has bitten any person and
<br />caused an abrasion of the skin of such person or has otherwise exposed that person to its saliva through an open wound or
<br />mucous membrane.
<br /> REGULAR BUSINESS DAY. A day during which the city animal shelter is open to the public for not less than four
<br />consecutive hours between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m.
<br /> RIDING SCHOOL OR STABLE. Any place that has available for hire, boarding and/or riding instruction, any horse, pony,
<br />donkey, mule, llama or burro; or any place that regularly buys, sells or trains the above animals, including a trotting track or
<br />rodeo.
<br /> SHELTER. A structure, stable , barn or coop designed to provide shelter from weather and safety for animals.
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