(A) The owner or keeper shall not suffer or permit any animal to bark, howl, cry, or make other distressing or loud or unusual noise or to disturb the peace or quiet of any place, neighborhood, family, or person in the village. The disturbing of any neighborhood or persons by any such animal is declared to be a nuisance, and no person shall suffer or permit any such nuisance and to exist.
(B) In case any animal shall repeatedly disturb the peace or quiet of any place or neighborhood or become a nuisance as defined in this chapter, the village may petition the Circuit Court for an order to destroy the animal.
(C) The keeping or harboring of any animal or fowl which by frequent or habitual howling, yelping, barking, crowing, or making of other noises shall greatly annoy or disturb a neighborhood or any considerable number of persons within the village is declared a nuisance.
(1999 Code, § 90.04) (Ord. passed 10-8-2012) Penalty, see § 10.99
Cross-reference:
Public nuisances enumerated, see § 92.03