(A) No person shall harbor, keep, possess, maintain and/or act as the custodian of any vicious dog as defined in this subchapter within the city limits. Any dog alleged to be vicious by verified complaint may be impounded by the Chief of Police of the city, or by the Chief’s designee, in a humane facility for the keeping of dogs and/or the Chief of Police may within his or her discretion, transfer physical control of the alleged vicious dog to the Administrator of the LaSalle County Animal Control Department, consistent with the statute of such cases made and provided, pending disposition of the verified complaint upon which the citation for violation of this subchapter shall be issued, and/or further pending such other action and/or disposition as may have been undertaken by the LaSalle County Animal Control Department pursuant to its appropriate jurisdictional remedies.
(B) No person shall return to or harbor within the city limits of the City of LaSalle, Illinois, a dog previously determined by either LaSalle County Animal Control Administrator, or by a court of competent jurisdiction, to meet this subchapter’s definition of vicious dog, unless it has been determined by a higher court of competent jurisdiction, that the determination as to the dog being vicious is erroneous; or alternatively, that it has later been determined by the Animal Control Administrator, and/or another court of competent jurisdiction, that the dog no longer meets the definition of vicious dog as defined within this subchapter. Any such vicious dog located as being harbored in and/or having returned to the City of LaSalle, may be impounded by the Police Department, and/or at the discretion of the Chief of Police, jurisdiction upon impoundment may be transferred to the LaSalle County Animal Control Department in care of the LaSalle County Animal Control Administrator.
(Ord. 1724, passed 1-8-2001)