(A) The official procedure for bite cases shall be as follows.
(1) When the Animal Control Officer receives information that a person has been bitten by an animal, the animal owner shall be instructed to have the animal examined by his veterinarian within 24 hours.
(2) If the animal bite occurred off the animal owner’s property or when the animal was left without proper control, a citation shall be written against the animal owner.
(3) The Animal Control Officer shall fill out the Maywood Animal Bite Report in full, and he shall send this report within 24 hours to the local Public Health Department or to the Cook County Department of Animal Control.
(4) All animals that bite must be impounded for 10 days, following the first examination.
(5) Impoundment at home or at a facility under the observation of a licensed veterinarian shall be dependent upon a current rabies vaccination and the ability of the animal owner to confine the biting animal.
(6) When an owner of a biting animal has no personal veterinarian, the Animal Control Officer shall have the animal impounded for 10 days. The Village shall provide a service for the impoundment of biting animals.
(7) All animals impounded shall have a record. The record shall include the animal owner’s name, address and telephone number if available; species or breed, color, sex, and license or tag number if available; and the time and date impounded.
(8) The veterinarian examining the biting animal shall fill out and then send within 24 hours the Cook County Rabies Observation Notice to the Cook County Department Of Animal Control.
(9) Following the examination of the biting animal at the end of the 10-day confinement period the veterinarian shall complete the Cook County Rabies Release Report and he shall send this report within 24 hours to the Cook County Department of Animal Control.
(B) The animal owner is responsible for all costs relating to the examination and impoundment of the biting animal.
(C) Any person having personal knowledge of an animal biting a person and that the animal has not been properly examined shall report this fact to the Animal Control Officer.
(D) It is unlawful for the owner of a biting animal to euthanize, sell, give away, or otherwise dispose of such animal until it is released by the Cook County Animal Control Administrator or his authorized representative.
(1997 Code, § 13.06) (Ord. 75-4, passed 6-26-1975)