§ 800-050. DEFINITIONS

Assistance dogs are dogs specially trained as guide dogs, signal dogs, or service dogs.

Nuisance is anything which is injurious to health, or is indecent, or offensive to the senses, or an obstruction to the free use of property, so as to interfere with the comfortable enjoyment of life or property by a community or neighborhood, or by any considerable number of persons, or unlawfully obstructs the free passage or use, in the customary manner, of any navigable lake, or river, bay, stream, canal, or basin or any public park, square, street, or highway.

Potentially dangerous dog shall have the same definition as contained in Section 31602 of the Food and Agricultural Code.

Quarantine as used in this section, means the strict confinement, upon the private premises of the owner, under restraint by leash, closed cage, or paddock, of all animals specified in the order for quarantine.

Rabies as used in this chapter, includes rabies, and any other animal disease dangerous to human beings that may be declared by the State of California Health Department as coming under Health and Safety Code.

Ratproofing shall consist of adequately covering or sealing all holes or means of ingress to such premises by which rats can enter in and upon such premises, save and except properly conducted constructed and protected doors, windows, and ventilating shafts. With regard to open land, ratproofing shall consist of eliminating the harborage of the rat population. All costs of eliminating rats and ratproofing shall be borne by the person owning or in lawful possession of the premises ratproofed or from which rats are to be eliminated.

Vicious dog shall have the same definition as contained in Section 31603 of the Food and Agricultural Code.