GNC.4.11.080 Definitions

Any term not defined in Subchapter GNC.4.9 shall be given its ordinary meaning, and the below terms shall have the following meanings, except where the context indicates otherwise:

(a) "adequate shelter" means a structure, which other than an opening for egress and ingress, is completely enclosed and which is large enough to allow the animal to stand and turn comfortably;

(b) "animal" means any living creature, except for a human being, which differs from plants in the capacity for spontaneous movement and rapid motor response to stimulation;

(c) "confine" means keep an animal indoors or in a secure enclosure, which prevents escape and contact with other animals and people;

(d) "cruel treatment" means inflicting physical injury, by other than accidental means, which causes or creates a substantial risk of death, disability, disfigurement or impairment of bodily functions to any animal;

(e) "dangerous animal" means any animal that without provocation bites or attacks any person or a domestic animal severely enough to break the skin, excluding:

(1) any animal that bites or attacks a person who knowingly trespasses on the property of the animal's owner or keeper;

(2) any animal that bites or attacks a person who knowingly provokes, antagonizes or inflicts cruel treatment on the animal; or

(3) any animal that is responding in a manner that a reasonable person would conclude was intended to protect a person who is the victim of an assault;

(f) "department" means the LCO Police Department and or the LCO Conservation Department;

(g) "director" means the director of the department;

(h) "domestic animal" means any tame animal that is habituated to live in or about people, including without limitation, domestic dogs and cats;

(i) "euthanize" means the humane destruction of an animal by a method that produces instantaneous unconsciousness and immediate death or painless loss of consciousness and death during such loss of consciousness;

(j) "keeper" means any person in possession of any animal or responsible for the custody or control of any animal;

(k) "LCO" means the Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians;

(l) "LCO constitution" means the Amended Constitution and Bylaws of LCO;

(m) "LCO reservation" means all lands and waters within the exterior boundaries of the LCO reservation in Wisconsin, as established by Secretarial Order March 1, 1873, and any lands or waters or interests therein which may be acquired outside of the 1873 reservation by or on behalf of LCO, including the 1200 acres of Farm Services Administration land outside the 1873 reservation boundary held by the United States, except as may otherwise be provided by federal law;

(n) "neglected" means any animal that does not receive adequate food, water, shelter, medical care, exercise or supervision necessary for the welfare of the animal;

(o) "premises" means any secure building or fenced or enclosed area of sufficient strength and dimension to prevent escape, which is either owned by or to which the owner or keeper of the animal has permission from the owner to use;

(p) "public emergency" means any circumstance under which the department has determined to warrant that animals being confined;

(q) "rabies exposure" means when an animal has bitten or attacked a person or domestic animal severely enough to break the skin or any other situation in which saliva, central nervous system tissue or cerebral fluid of a potentially rabid animal enters an open, fresh wound or comes in contact with mucous membranes by entering the eye, mouth or nose.

(r) "running at large" means any animal not restrained in accordance with 396.14; and

(s) "wild or exotic animal" means any animal which is wild, fierce, naturally inclined to do harm or any animal that can normally be found in the wild state, and includes without limitation, the following:

(1) all dogs, including wolf, fox, coyote, dingo, jackal, wolf hybrids and all other members of the family, excluding domestic dogs;

(2) all cats, including lions, pumas, panthers, mountain lions, leopards, lynx, jaguars, ocelots, margays, tigers, wild cats and all other members of the family, excluding domestic cats;

(3) all bears, including grizzly bears, brown bears, black bears and all other members of the family;

(4) all weasels, including martens, mink, wolverine, ferrets, badgers, otters, ermine, mongoose and all other members of the family;

(5) all raccoons, including civets and all other members of the family;

(6) all porcupines, including all other members of the family;

(7) all skunks, including all other members of the family;

(8) all snakes, including all venomous and constricting snakes, and all other members of the family;

(9) all crocodiles, alligators, caimans, gavials and all other members of the family;

(10) all venomous fish, piranha and similar fish;

(11) all sea mammals; and

(12) any other animal which the department, in its discretion, determines to be a wild or exotic animal.