A. Diseased Animals Generally:
1. It shall be unlawful to allow any animal afflicted with any contagious or infectious disease to run at large or to be exposed in any public place whereby the health of persons or other animals may be affected; nor shall such diseased animal be removed or shipped from the premises of the owner thereof except under the supervision of an animal control officer or a licensed veterinarian.
2. An animal control officer shall cause such disposition of any diseased animal and such treatment of affected premises as to prevent the communication or spread of contagion or infection.
B. Authority To Kill Diseased Or Injured Animals: Whenever any animal is in any street or public place within the village and appears, in the estimation of any animal control officer, to be injured or diseased beyond recovery, and is not at that time being attended and properly cared for by the owner or other proper person in control thereof, and whenever such animal has not been removed to some private premises or other place designated by such officer within one hour after being found or left in such condition, such animal may be put to death by such officer or his authorized agent and, unless at once removed by the owner, shall be treated as any other dead animal found on a street or public place, as herein provided.
C. Removal Of Dead Or Dying Animals: Any person possessing any dead animal or any animal injured or diseased beyond recovery, which is not killed for meat or is improper for use as meat, or which is in an offensive condition or sick with an infectious or contagious disease, shall notify the county animal control, and upon an order from the same, such person, at his own expense, shall at once remove or cause the removal of such animal.
D. Improper Disposal Of Or Keeping Dead Animals: It shall be unlawful for any person to abandon, deposit or throw upon any place or street or public water or to offensively expose or bury anywhere within the village the body or any part thereof of any dead or fatally diseased or injured animal; nor shall any person keep any dead animal or any offensive meat, bird, fowl or fish in a place where the same may be dangerous to the life or detrimental to the health of any person. (Ord. 708, 9-13-2012)