38-1-401 - Part definitions.
38-1-401. Part definitions.
As used in this part, unless the context otherwise requires:
(1) Animal means a domesticated living creature or a wild creature previously captured;
(2) Cruelty, abuse, and neglect mean every act, omission, or neglect whereby unreasonable physical pain, suffering, or death is caused or permitted;
(3) Reasonable suspicion means that it is objectively reasonable for a person to entertain a suspicion, based upon facts, that could cause a reasonable person in a like position, drawing, when appropriate, on the person's training and experience, to suspect animal cruelty, abuse, or neglect; and
(4) Owner means any person who is the legal owner, keeper, harborer, possessor, or the actual custodian of an animal. Owner includes corporations as well as individuals.
[Acts 2006, ch. 736, § 2.]