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EVERETT RETT ORDINANCE NO. 1810-91 AN ORDINANCE adopting regulations related to animals and repealing Ordinance No. 's 680-80, 1626-89 and Section 6 of Ordinance No. 1228-86. WHEREAS, the City Council finds that the City should encourage, secure and enforce those animal control measures deemed desirable and necessary for the protection of human health, safety and welfare and to the greatest degree practicable to prevent injury to property and cruelty to animal life; and WHEREAS, the City Council finds that it should establish and implement a program for licensing and regulation of dogs and cats as well as other animals, and facilities which house them and to provide for the health, safety and welfare of the people residing in the City; NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY OF EVERETT DOES ORDAIN: SECTION 1: TITLE. The ordinance codified in this chapter may be cited as "the animal control ordinance. " SECTION 2 : DEFINITIONS. As used in this ordinance, the terms defined in this section shall have the defined meanings unless the context requires otherwise; words in the present tense include the future; the singular includes the plural; plural usage includes the singular; "shall" means mandatory, not directory, and the masculine gender includes the feminine. A. "Adult dog or cat" means any dog or cat over the age of six months. B. "Animal" means any live vertebrate creature, reptile, amphibian, or bird, except man. C. "Animal at large" means any animal off the property of its owner, unless restrained by leash, tether or other physical control device not to exceed eight feet in length and under the physical control of a responsible person, whether or not the owner of such animal, or which enters upon the property of