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Section
90.01 County regulations adopted by reference
90.02 Definition
90.03 Animal Control Officer
90.04 Dog inoculation and registration required
90.05 Animals running at large
90.06 Impoundment procedure
90.07 Animal offenses and nuisances
90.08 Enforcement
90.09 Housing
90.10 Driving, riding animals
90.11 Chickens
90.99 Penalty
Cross-reference:
Health and Sanitation; Nuisances, see Ch. 92
The village may employ a person or persons, to be designated the “Animal Control Officer”, for purposes of this chapter with the following responsibilities and powers.
(A) The Animal Control Officer shall impound, or cause to be impounded, and shall dispose of, according to the provisions in this code, all animals running at large within the village. The officer shall maintain a record of every animal impounded, describing the breed, color and sex, together with the time and place the animal was captured, the final disposition made of each animal and any other information obtained.
(B) The Animal Control Officer shall be responsible for the general administration and enforcement of the provisions contained in this chapter and may make complaints and issue citations for violations of these provisions.
(C) The Animal Control Officer is clothed with police powers and, before entering upon his or her duties, shall take the oath of office prescribed for all other police officers of the village. The officer shall wear the uniform the Board prescribes and shall be furnished with equipment as provided by the Board.
(D) It shall be unlawful for any person to interfere with the Animal Control Officer, or any of his or her assistants, in the performance of their duties, or to prevent or attempt to prevent any of them from capturing or impounding any animal within the village.
(2010 Code, § 175.01) Penalty, see § 90.99
(A) No dog shall be permitted to be in or remain in the village without being inoculated against rabies and registered pursuant to Chapter 5, Article II of the Peoria County Code of Ordinances. Evidence of such inoculation shall be entered upon a certificate, the form of which shall be approved by the County Board, and the certificate shall be signed by the licensed veterinarian administering the vaccine.
(B) It shall be the duty of the owner of a dog to procure an inoculation tag from the county and cause such inoculation tag to be securely attached to a collar or harness to be worn by the dog whenever the dog is not confined in a secure enclosure. If a dog is not inoculated and registered, said dog shall be impounded and may be redeemed or disposed of as set forth in the impoundment procedures of this chapter.
(2010 Code, § 175.01) (Ord. 21-05-03, passed 5-17- 2021)
Penalty, see § 90.99
The owner, possessor or keeper of any animal shall keep the animal under restraint at all times and shall not permit the animal to be at large off the premises or property of the owner, possessor or keeper. Any animal shall be deemed to be at large when it is off the property of its owner, possessor or keeper and not under control of a competent person either by leash, cord, chain or otherwise. An animal is under RESTRAINT, within the meaning of this section, if it is controlled by a leash, “at heal” beside a competent person and is obedient to that person’s commands, on or within a vehicle being driven or parked on the streets or within the property limits of its owner, possessor or keeper.
(2010 Code, § 175.01)
Penalty, see § 90.99
(A) Every animal running at large within the village shall be impounded by the Animal Control Officer. Impoundment may be made in any public animal pound.
(B) It shall be the duty of the Animal Control Officer to notify, by mail, the owner of every animal impounded, if known, that the animal has been impounded and the place of impoundment, giving the date the animal was impounded. It shall be the duty of the owner of the impounded animal to immediately redeem the animal, unless the animal has been impounded for biting some person within the village or is afflicted or suspected of being afflicted with rabies and is being held for observation. Upon the neglect or failure of any person owning any impounded animal to redeem the animal within seven days from the date of mailing the notice of impoundment, the animal may be redeemed by any other person by paying to the Animal Control Officer or to the Village Treasurer all charges accrued for impounding the animal. Every dog redeemed must have attached to its collar a licensed dog tag for the calendar year before being released by the Animal Control Officer. If the owner fails to redeem the impounded animal within 24 hours after receipt of the notice, a charge shall be made as set by the Board of Trustees from time to time per day, commencing from the expiration of the 24-hour period until the animal has been redeemed. This charge shall be in addition to the redemption fee provided for in division (C) below.
(C) For the first violation, the prevailing rates charged by the animal shelter and by the village shall be charged for every animal impounded at that shelter. For the second violation, the fee shall be twice that for the first violation. For the third violation, the fee shall be three times that for the first violation.
(D) No impounded animal which has bitten a person shall be redeemed before the expiration of ten days, as provided in division (E) below.
(E) Every animal not afflicted with rabies, which has been impounded for biting any person within the village, may be redeemed at the end of ten days, upon payment to the village of all charges and expenses incurred for impounding and keeping the animal. Unless all expenses and charges incurred by the village for impounding or confining any animal which has bitten any person in the village shall be paid within four days after the period for impounding the animal has expired, the animal shall be destroyed by the Animal Control Officer.
(F) Any animal not redeemed after notice in accordance with the provisions of this section may be destroyed in a modern lethal chamber to be used for the purpose of destroying animals or may be destroyed by a licensed veterinarian in any humane manner, upon written order of the Animal Control Officer.
(2010 Code, § 175.01)
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