As used in this article the following terms shall mean as indicated below:
ANIMAL CONTROL ACT: | The Animal Control Act, 510 ILCS 5/1 through 5/27, as amended. |
ADEQUATE CARE: | Shall include but not be limited to medical treatment for illness, injury, disease, excessive parasitism, or any malformations. |
ADEQUATE FOOD: | Means food that is not spoiled or contaminated and is of sufficient quantity and quality to meet the normal daily requirements for the condition and size of the animal and the environment in which it is kept. An animal shall be fed or have food available at least once each day, unless a licensed veterinarian instructs otherwise, or withholding is in accordance with accepted agricultural or veterinarian practices. |
ADEQUATE WATER: | Means fresh, potable water provided at suitable intervals for the species, and which, in no event, shall exceed 24 hours at any interval. The animal must have access to the water. |
ADEQUATE SHELTER: | means a moisture proof structure which has 4 sides, a roof, floor, and bedding of suitable size to allow the pet to stand up, lie down, and turn around in a natural position and allow retention of body heat, made of durable material with a solid floor raised off the ground as to not allow water to pool in the structure and with the entrance protected from direct wind and rain. The shelter shall be placed to provide shade from the sun and protection from the weather. |
A veterinarian licensed by the State of Illinois and appointed pursuant to this Act, or in the event a veterinarian cannot be found and appointed pursuant to this Act, a non-veterinarian may serve as administrator under this Act. In the event the administrator is not a veterinarian, the administrator shall defer to the veterinarian regarding all medical decisions. | |
Any animal, other than man, which may be affected by rabies. | |
Any facility approved by the administrator for the purpose of enforcing the Act and used as a shelter for seized, stray, homeless, abandoned, or unwanted dogs. | |
Any person appointed by the administrator to perform the duties set forth in the Animal Control Act | |
BEDDING: | Material that will provide warmth and comfort that can be disposed of when compromised by weather, such as straw or wood shavings. |
BACKYARD BREEDER: | A breeder with little or no experience or knowledge who breeds animals with little planning or preparation, often providing only substandard conditions of care and does not engage in selective breeding practices. And does not have a current permit from Lee County Animal Control. |
A person or entity who sells, offers to sell, exchanges, or offers for adoption with or without charge dogs or cats that he or she has produced and raised. | |
CARETAKER/KEEPER: | Any individual, kennel operator, training facility, boarding facility, or breeder who assumes care of an animal for a period of twenty-four (24) hours or more. |
All domestic members of the feline family Felis Catus. | |
An animal that is commonly considered to be, or is considered by the owner to be, a pet. "Companion animal" includes, but is not limited to, canines, felines, and equines. | |
The restriction of an animal at all times by the owner, or his agent, to an escape proof building or other enclosure away from other animals and the public. | |
Any individual dog anywhere other than upon the property of the owner or custodian of the dog and not muzzled, not leashed, or unattended by its owner or custodian that behaves in a manner that a reasonable person would believe poses a serious and unjustified imminent threat of serious physical injury or death to a person or a companion animal or a dog that, without justification, bites a person and does not cause serious physical injury. | |
The Department of Agriculture of the State of Illinois | |
A veterinarian licensed by the State of Illinois, appointed by the Administrator. | |
The director of the department of agriculture of the state, or his duly appointed representative. | |
All domestic members of the canine family Canis familiaris. | |
A cat that: A. Is born of the wild or is the offspring of an owned or feral cat and is not socialized; B. Is a formerly owned cat that has been abandoned and is no longer socialized; or C. Lives on a farm. | |
An entity that accepts the responsibility for stewardship of animals that are the obligation of an animal shelter or animal control facility, not to exceed four (4) foster animals or two (2) litters less than eight (8) weeks of age at any given time. A written agreement to operate as a "foster home" shall be contracted with the animal shelter or animal control facility. | |
Has been seized with the teeth or jaws so that the person or animal seized has been nipped, gripped, wounded, or pierced. The phrase further includes contact of saliva with any break or abrasion of the skin. | |
HUMANE CARE FOR ANIMALS ACT: | The Humane Care for Animals Act, 510 ILCS 70/1 through 70/3, as amended. |
Taken into custody by Lee County Animal Control in the city, town, or county where the animal was found. | |
The injection of an anti-rabies vaccine approved by the department. | |
An animal that has not been spayed or neutered. | |
KITTEN: | All members of the feline family Felis Catus, whether male or female, under four (4) months of age. |
A cord, rope, strap or chain which shall be securely fastened to the collar or harness of a dog or other animal and shall be of sufficient strength to keep such dog or other animal under control. | |
LIVESTOCK GUARDIAN DOG OR WORKING DOG: | A dog bred for the purpose of protecting livestock/property from predators. |
Any person having a right of property in an animal, or who keeps or harbors an animal, or who has it in his care, or acts as its custodian, or who knowingly permits a domestic animal to remain on or about any premises occupied by him. "Owner" does not include a feral cat caretaker participating in a trap, spay/neuter, return or release program approved by the Administrator. | |
The impairment of physical condition. | |
A. A dog that is unsupervised and found running at large unsupervised with three (3) or more other dogs; or B. Any dog, while off the property of its owner and not under the owner's restraint that has bitten a companion animal or a human and does not cause serious injury or death on more than one occasion. | |
PUPPY: | All members of the canine family Canis familiaris, whether male or female, under four (4) months of age. |
"Reckless dog owner" means a person who owns a dog that while anywhere other than upon the property of the owner, and without justification, kills another dog that results in that dog being deemed a dangerous dog under Section 15.1 of the Animal Control Act and who knowingly allows the dog to violate Section 9 of the Animal Control Act on two (2) occasions within twelve (12) months of the incident for which the dog was deemed dangerous or is involved in another incident that results in the dog being deemed dangerous on a second occasion within twenty-four (24) months of the original dangerous determination. | |
A printed form prescribed by the department for the purpose of recording pertinent information as required by the department under this Act. The certificate must include the animal's species, name, breed, sex, color, identifying markers, age, weight, and microchip number (if applicable). The certificate must also include the animal owner's physical address. Any cat considered feral shall be marked "ear-tipped" on the certificate. | |
RESTRAINT: | An owned animal, off the premises of its owner's real property, is under restraint within the meaning of this chapter: A. If it is controlled by a leash when said leash is held by a competent person; B. Controlled by a leash of fifty (50) feet or less during a training session conducted by a competent person; C. When contained within a vehicle being driven, parked, or stopped; or D. While utilized in the sport of hunting. |
A fence or structure of at least six (6) feet in height, forming or causing an enclosure suitable to prevent the entry of young children, and suitable to confine a vicious dog in conjunction with other measures which may be taken by the owner or keeper, such as tethering of a vicious dog within the enclosure. Such enclosure shall be securely enclosed and locked and designed with secure sides, top and bottom and shall be designed to prevent the animal from escaping from the enclosure. Such enclosure must be approved by the administrator. If the enclosure is a room within a residence, it cannot have direct ingress from or egress to the outdoors unless it leads directly to an enclosed pen and the door must be locked. A vicious dog may be allowed to move about freely within the entire residence if it is muzzled at all times. | |
A physical injury that creates a substantial risk of death or that causes death, serious or protracted disfigurement, protracted impairment of health, impairment of the function of any bodily organ, or plastic surgery. | |
STRAY ANIMAL: | Any dog or cat that is in a public place and not under the direct supervision of a keeper which has no indication of ownership such as a collar, county registration tax tag, name tag, microchip, or any other identifiers. |
STRAYING DOG OR CAT; RUNNING AT LARGE: | Any dog shall be deemed to be at large where it is off the premises of its owner's real property and not restrained or under voice control by a competent person. |
To restrain a dog by tying the dog to any object or structure, including, without limitation, a house, tree, fence, post, garage, shed, (or) clothes line by any means, including, without limitation, a chain, rope, cord, leash, or running line. Tethering shall not include using a leash to walk a dog. | |
TNR: | Trap-Neuter-Return of feral cats. |
TNR PROGRAM: | The process of humanely trapping (in a live trap) community cats, bringing them to a veterinarian to be spayed or neutered, vaccinated, ear-tipped, and then returned to the same property they were trapped from. |
Any chain that is more than one-quarter of an inch in width. | |
A dog that bites a person, attacks a person or causes physical injury, serious physical injury or death or any individual dog that has been found to be a "dangerous dog" upon three (3) separate occasions or any individual dog that has killed a companion animal while off the premises of its owner. | |
VOICE CONTROL: | The immediate recall of an animal at the sound of the voice of the owner. (Ord. Ord. 07-22-001, 7-21-2022) |
Notes
| 1 | State Law reference - Similar provisions, 510 ILCS 5/2.01 |
| 2 | State Law reference - Similar provisions, 510 ILCS 5/2.02 |
| 3 | State Law reference - Similar provisions, 510 ILCS 5/2.18 |
| 4 | State Law reference - Similar provisions, 510 ILCS 5/2.03 |
| 5 | State Law reference - similar provisions, 225 ILCS 605/2 |
| 6 | State Law reference - 510ILCS 5/2.04a |
| 7 | State Law reference - Similar provisions, 510 ILCS 70/2.01a |
| 8 | State Law reference - Similar provisions, 510 ILCS 5/2.05 |
| 9 | State Law reference - Similar provisions, 510 ILCS 5/2.05A |
| 10 | State Law reference - Similar provisions, 510 ILCS 5/2.06 |
| 11 | State Law reference - Similar provisions, 510 ILCS 5/2.07 |
| 12 | State Law reference - Similar provisions, 510 ILCS 5/2.08 |
| 13 | State Law reference - Similar provisions, 510 ILCS 5/2.11 |
| 14 | State Law reference - Similar provisions, 510 ILCS 5/2.11b |
| 15 | State Law reference - Similar provisions, 225 ILCS 605/2 |
| 16 | State Law reference - Similar provisions, 510 ILCS 5/2.12 |
| 17 | State Law reference - Similar provisions, 510 ILCS 5/2.12a |
| 18 | State Law provisions - Similar provisions, 510 ILCS 5/2.13 |
| 19 | State Law provisions - Similar provisions, 510 ILCS 5/2.11c |
| 20 | State Law reference - Similar provisions, 510 ILCS 5/2.14 |
| 21 | State Law reference - Similar provisions, 510 ILCS 5/2.16 |
| 22 | State Law reference - Similar provisions, 510 ILCS 5/2.18A |
| 23 | State Law reference - Similar provisions, 510 ILCS 5/2.17C |
| 24 | State Law reference - Similar provisions, 510 ILCS 5/2.18b |
| 25 | State Law reference - Similar provisions 510 ILCS 5/2.19 |
| 26 | State Law reference - Similar provisions, 510 ILCS 5/2.11A |
| 27 | State Law reference - Similar provisions, 510 ILCS 5/2.19A |
| 28 | State Law reference - Similar provisions, 510 ILCS 70/3 |
| 29 | State Law reference - Similar provisions, 510 ILCS 70/3 |
| 30 | State Law reference - Similar provisions, 510 ILCS 5/2.19b |