A. When no animal hospital or shelter is willing to accept a large animal such as a horse, cow, mule or any other animal found on any public way or in any public place, any animal control officer or any person employed by a firm under contract with the Village to perform security or law enforcement services who removes such animal from any public way or from within any public place is authorized hereby to call a trucking firm or company which shall convey the animal to a farm or other appropriate facility that has an agreement with the Village to accept such animals. The disposition of any animal removed to a facility other than an animal hospital or shelter shall be handled in the same manner as though the animal were confined in an animal hospital or shelter.
B. When necessary for the protection of any person or property, any person employed by a firm under contract with the Village to perform security or law enforcement services is authorized to cause the disposition of any vicious animal.
C. Any severely injured or diseased animal for which care is not being provided on the scene and which is on any public way or within any public place or that has strayed onto private premises shall be removed, if possible, to any animal hospital or shelter willing to accept such animal. If immediate removal shall not be possible, any animal control officer or any person employed by a firm under contract with the Village to perform security or law enforcement services may destroy such animal by the most humane method available on the scene, unless the owner of such animal shall first come forward and assume responsibility for the animal's removal and care.
(Ord. 355, passed 10-8-97; Am. Ord. 705, passed 10-18-2011)