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505.16 VICIOUS AND DANGEROUS ANIMALS. <br />(a) Definitions. The following definitions shall apply in the interpretation and <br />enforcement of this section: <br />(1) "Director of Public Safety" means the City official holding said title and includes any <br />authorized designee, such as public safety or service employees acting in accordance with <br />general directives or specific orders issued by the Director pursuant to authority vested <br />herein. <br />(2) "Vicious animal" means any animal which represents a danger to any person(s), or <br />to any other domestic animal, for any of the following reasons: <br />A. Any animal that kills or causes serious physical harm (as defined in Ohio R.C. <br />2901.01(E)) to any person or domestic animal. <br />B. Any animal which bites or causes physical harm to any person or domestic animal <br />while off the premises of the owner on more than one occasion. <br />C. Any pit bull, canary dog or American bull dog, as defined below. <br />D. Any wolf -hybrid. <br />E. "Vicious animal" does not include a police dog that has inflicted any harm specified <br />in this subsection if such police dog is being used to assist one or more law enforcement <br />officers in the performance of their official duties. <br />(3) "Dangerous animal" means any animal, but not a "vicious animal" as defined above, <br />which has either: <br />A. Bitten any person, or <br />B. Without provocation, chased or approached in either a menacing fashion or in an <br />apparent attitude of attack, or otherwise acted in a manner which substantially endangered <br />the physical health and safety of, any person, while the animal was not physically confined <br />in a locked pen which has a top, a locked fence yard, or other locked enclosure which has a <br />top. <br />(4) "Owner" means any person owning, keeping, possessing, harboring, maintaining, or <br />having the care, custody or control of an animal. <br />(5) "Menacing fashion" means actions by an animal that would cause a person of <br />ordinary sensibilities to reasonably believe that the animal intended to cause serious <br />physical harm to that person and was capable of causing serious physical harm. <br />(6) "Pit bull" means any Staffordshire Bull Terrier, American Pit Bull Terrier, or <br />American Staffordshire Terrier breed of dog, or any mixed breed of dog which contains, as <br />an element of its breeding, the breed of Staffordshire Bull Terrier, American Pit Bull <br />Terrier, or American Staffordshire Terrier as to be identifiable as partially of the breed of <br />Staffordshire Bull Terrier, American Pit Bull Terrier, or American Staffordshire Terrier. <br />(7) "Canary Dog" means any Canary Dog or Perro de Presa Canario, or any mixed breed <br />of dog which contains, as an element of its breeding, the breed of Canary Dog or Perro de <br />