Burbank Municipal Code Art. 1 General Provisions

As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise indicates, the following definitions shall apply:

AMBIENT TEMPERATURE: Shall mean the temperature surrounding an animal.

ANIMAL: Shall mean any vertebrate creature, including a dog, cat, horse, bird, reptile, fish or other dumb animal.

ANIMAL SHELTER: Shall mean a municipal or related public animal shelter or duly incorporated nonprofit organization devoted to the rescue, care and adoption of stray, abandoned or surrendered animals, and which does not breed animals.

ANIMAL SHELTER SUPERINTENDENT: Shall mean the person appointed to supervise a facility of the City established for the purpose of impounding or caring for animals under the authority of this chapter or State law.

CAT: Shall mean an animal of the Felidae family of the order Carnivora.

CERTIFICATE OF SOURCE: Shall mean a document declaring the source of the dog or cat sold or transferred by the pet shop. The certificate shall include the name and address of the source of the dog or cat.

COMMERCIALLY BRED DOG OR CAT: Shall mean a dog or cat that was intentionally bred for commercial purposes and profit and offered for sale to distributors, brokers or retail sellers of such animals.

COMMERCIAL KENNEL: Shall mean any kennel wherein dogs, cats, or both, are kept for the purpose of breeding, training, boarding or raising for profit.

DOG: Shall mean an animal of the Canidae family of the order Carnivora.

EXISTING PET SHOP: Shall mean any pet shop or pet shop operator that displayed, sold, delivered, offered for sale, offered for adoption, bartered, auctioned, gave away, or otherwise transferred cats or dogs in the City of Burbank and held a license to operate a pet shop as of October 17, 2012.

HANDLING: Shall mean feeding, manipulation, crating, shifting, transferring, immobilizing, restraining, treating, training, working or performing any similar activity with respect to any animal.

HORSE: Shall includes ponies, miniature horses and all members of the equine family including burros, donkeys, and all hybrids of said family such as mules.

HOUSING FACILITY: Shall mean any room, building or area used to contain a primary enclosure or enclosures.

KEEP: Shall mean possessing, controlling, exercising, maintaining, harboring or allowing to run at large.

KENNEL: Shall mean any lot, building, enclosure or premises wherein five (5) or more dogs, cats, or combination thereof, four (4) months of age or over are kept, except for pet shops selling animals from a registered rescue organization, adoption agency or public animal shelter.

KENNEL OPERATOR: Shall mean the person who is the legal owner or is actually in control of the operation of a kennel but does not include a veterinarian operating a veterinary hospital or an animal shelter.

MEDIUM: Shall mean a dog of twenty one (21) to forty (40) pounds (springer or cocker spaniel size).

NONCOMMERCIAL KENNEL: Shall mean any kennel wherein dogs, cats, or both, are kept as pets.

OWNER: Shall mean any person owning, keeping or harboring one or more animals. An animal shall be deemed to be kept or harbored if it is fed or sheltered for three (3) or more consecutive days.

PET: Shall mean any dog, cat, monkey or other primate, rabbit, bird, guinea pig, hamster, mouse, snake, iguana, turtle, or any other species of animal kept for pleasure rather than utility or sold or retained for the purpose of being kept as a household pet.

PET SHOP: Shall mean every place or premises where pet animals are kept for the purpose of either wholesale or retail sale, but shall not include a kennel.

PET SHOP OPERATOR: Shall mean a person who owns or operates a pet shop, or both.

PYGMY GOAT: Shall mean any goat not exceeding a height of twenty four inches (24") from the ground to the animal’s shoulder.

PRIMARY ENCLOSURE: Shall mean any structure used to immediately restrict an animal or animals to a limited amount of space, such as a room, pen, run, cage, compartment or hutch.

RABIES VACCINATION: Shall mean vaccination with a canine rabies vaccine approved for use by the State Department of Public Health.

RETAIL SALE: Shall include display, offer for sale, offer for adoption, barter, auction, give away, or other transfer of any commercially bred cat or dog.

SANITIZE: Shall mean to make physically clean and to remove and destroy, to the maximum degree that is practical, agents injurious to health.

SMALL: Shall mean a dog of less than twenty one (21) pounds (toy poodle or Manchester terrier size).

STABLE, COMMERCIAL: Shall mean any riding stable, riding academy, or other place or premises where horses are kept, housed, boarded, lodged, fed, hired, trained, sold or bred as a commercial activity.

STABLE, NONCOMMERCIAL: Shall mean all enclosed structures and corrals designed or used for keeping horses owned by the owner or occupant of the property.

STANDARD: Shall mean a dog of more than forty (40) pounds (German shepherd or larger).

UNREGISTERED ANIMAL: Shall mean any animal for which a required registration has not been paid for the current year.

WILD ANIMAL: Shall mean any wild, exotic, dangerous or nondomestic animal, including, but not limited to, mammals, fowl, fish or reptiles. [Added by Ord. No. 2467; formerly numbered Section 6-1; Amended by Ord. No. 18-3,902, eff. 5/4/18; 3836, 3397, 3276, 3058, 2667.]

A. Except as otherwise provided in this section, every violation of this chapter shall constitute a misdemeanor and shall be corrected upon order of the Animal Shelter Superintendent served upon the violator in writing.

B. A violation of any of the following sections shall constitute an infraction:

5-1-301. Keeping of Certain Nondomestic Animals Prohibited.

5-1-303. Keeping of Certain Animals Near Inhabited Structures, Schools and Hospitals is Prohibited.

5-1-304. Keeping of Birds, Fowl, Rabbits and Chinchillas on Residential Property.

5-1-305. Keeping of Bees.

5-1-306. Keeping Diseased Animals Prohibited; Exception.

5-1-401. Rabies Vaccination of Dogs; Exemption.

5-1-402. Issuance of Certificate.

5-1-507. Necessity for Dog Registration; Exceptions.

5-1-511. Metal Tags to be Worn by Dogs; Exception.

5-1-512. Unauthorized Removal of Metal Tag Prohibited.

5-1-513. Unauthorized Metal Tags Prohibited.

5-1-515. Necessity for Horse Registration; Exception.

5-1-517. Horse Registration to be Posted.

5-1-601. Cleanliness of Premises Where Animals Are Kept.

5-1-602. Health Officer May Order Premises Cleaned and Disinfected.

5-1-809. Confinement of Female Dogs and Cats.

5-1-906. Displaying Ill or Injured Animal, etc.

5-1-907. Use of Traps.

5-1-909. Dog Chains.

5-1-912. Riding Horses at Night.

5-1-914. Exposing Animal to Vehicular Traffic.

5-1-1001. Control of Animals.

5-1-1102. Dogs Creating Nuisance in Public Parks and on Sidewalks, etc.

5-1-1103. Tying Animal to Tree or Shrub in Public Place.

5-1-1104. Use of Sidewalk or Parkway.

5-1-1105. Disposal of Dead Animals.

5-1-1106. Nuisances at Commercial Stables.

5-1-1107. Feeding of Coyotes Prohibited.

5-1-1108. Feeding of Pigeons So As to Create a Public Nuisance Prohibited.

5-1-1303. Keeping of Manure.

5-1-1304. Manure Bins and Removal of Manure.

[Added by Ord. No. 2467; formerly numbered Section 6-2; Amended by Ord. No. 3276, eff. 11/16/91; 3058, 2749.]