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"Person" means and includes corporations, estates, associations, partnerships and trusts, as well as one or more individual human beings. "Poultry" means chickens, pigeons, turkeys, geese, ducks and peacocks not regulated by State law. "Pound" means a facility for the purpose of impounding seized, stray, homeless, abandoned, or unclaimed animals; and an animal care center, or a humane society with whom the County has contracted for services operates said facility. "Provocation" means that the attack by a dog upon a person or animal was precipitated under circumstances reasonably expected to evoke a violent response from the dog, including, but not limited to, the following: (1) The dog was protecting or defending its owner or a member of its owner's household from an attack or assault; (2) The person attacked was committing a crime while on the property of the owner of the dog; (3) The person attacked was tormenting, abusing or assaulting the dog; (4) The animal attacked the dog; (5) The dog was responding to pain or injury inflicted by the attacked person or animal; or (6) The dog was protecting itself, its kennels, or its offspring from the attacked person or animal and the attack was committed on its owner's property. "Roadway" means any public or private street, avenue, road, alley, highway, lane, path, or other place located in the County and established for the use of vehicular or pedestrian traffic. "Serious injury" to a domestic animal means physical injury to the animal involving a broken bone, a laceration requiring stitches, a concussion, or a tearing or rupture of an organ. "Service dog" means a dog that has been or is being specially trained to aid physically disabled persons with a physical disability other than sight or hearing impairment. "Sterilized dog" means a spayed female dog and a neutered male dog. "Stray" means: (1) any dog on the premises of a person other than the owner of the dog, without the consent of an occupant of such premises; (2) any dog on a roadway, on public or private school grounds, or in any other public place, except when under the control of the owner by leash, cord, chain, or other similar means of physical restraint, provided that such leash, cord, chain, or other means is not more than six feet in length, and provided further that this provision shall not be construed to permit that which is prohibited by any other law; or (3) a cat or other domesticated animal wandering or running at large, or found upon any roadway, public place or found not upon the lands of the owner or not under the charge or control of one in possession. "Unlicensed dog" means any dog for which the license for the current year has not been paid or to which the tag provided for in this chapter is not attached. Section 4-2. Reserved. I