Discussion and Review of Tiffin Municipal Code Revisions — Council Updates

CHAPTER 55 ANIMAL PROTECTION AND CONTROL 8. “Eartipping” means the removal of the one-quarter inch tip of the community cat’s left ear, performed while the cat is under anesthesia in compliance with any applicable federal or State law, and under the supervision of a licensed veterinarian. Eartipping is the universally accepted method to identify a sterilized and lawfully vaccinated feral or free-roaming cat. 9. “Fair” means any of the following: (Code of Iowa, Sec. 717E.1(3)) A. The annual fair and exposition held by the Iowa State Fair Board pursuant to Chapter 173 of the Code of Iowa or any fair event conducted by a fair under the provisions of Chapter 174 of the Code of Iowa. B. An exhibition of agricultural or manufactured products. C. An event for operation of amusement rides or devices or concession booths. 10. “Game” means a “game of chance” or “game of skill” as defined in Section 99B.1 of the Code of Iowa. (Code of Iowa, Sec. 717E.1(4)) 11. “Injury” means an animal’s disfigurement; the impairment of an animal’s health; or an impairment to the functioning of an animal’s limb or organ, or the loss of an animal’s limb or organ. (Code of Iowa, Sec. 717.B1(10)) 12. “Livestock” means an animal belonging to the bovine, caprine, equine, ovine or porcine species, ostriches, rheas, and emus; farm deer (as defined in Section 170.1 of the Code of Iowa); or poultry except for chickens that are members of the subspecies Gallus Gallus Domesticus that are being kept in compliance with a valid permit approved in Chapter 58. (Code of Iowa, Sec. 717.1(4)) 13. “Owner” means any person owning, keeping, sheltering, or harboring an animal. This shall not include Community Cat caregiver. 14. “Pet” means a living dog, cat, or an animal normally maintained in a small tank or cage in or near a residence, including but not limited to a rabbit, gerbil, hamster, mouse, parrot, canary, mynah, finch, tropical fish, goldfish, snake, turtle, gecko, or iguana. (Code of Iowa, Sec. 717E.1(5)) 15. “Pound” means a facility for the prevention of cruelty to animals operated by the State, a municipal corporation, or other political subdivision of the State for the purpose of impounding or harboring seized stray, homeless, abandoned, or unwanted dogs, cats, or other animals; or a facility operated for such a purpose under a contract with any municipal corporation or incorporated society. (Code of Iowa, Sec. 162.2(20)) 16. “Research facility” means any school or college of medicine, veterinary medicine, pharmacy, dentistry, or osteopathic medicine, or hospital, diagnostic or research laboratories, or other educational or scientific establishment situated in the State concerned with the investigation of, or instruction concerning the structure or function of living organisms, the cause, prevention, control, or cure of diseases or abnormal conditions of human beings or animals. (Code of Iowa, Sec. 162.2(24)) CODE OF ORDINANCES, TIFFIN, IOWA - 446 -