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VILLAGE OF RIVERTON, ILLINOIS CODE OF ORDINANCES
ADOPTING ORDINANCE
TITLE I: GENERAL PROVISIONS
TITLE III: ADMINISTRATION
TITLE V: PUBLIC WORKS
TITLE VII: TRAFFIC CODE
TITLE IX: GENERAL REGULATIONS
TITLE XI: BUSINESS REGULATIONS
TITLE XIII: GENERAL OFFENSES
TITLE XV: LAND USAGE
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§ 90.09 ANIMALS AS NUISANCES.
   (A)   The owner or keeper of an animal shall not suffer or permit the 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 to exist.
   (B)   In addition to the general restrictions of division (A) above, for the purpose of this section, an owner or keeper is in violation of this section if he or she permits a dog to bark in a substantially continuous manner between the hours of 10:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. for a period of more than 15 minutes, or who allows such animal to bark, howl or cry for numerous periods of time, regardless of duration, so as to disturb the quiet of the neighborhood or of particular neighbors.
   (C)   In case any animal shall repeatedly disturb the peace or quiet of any place or neighborhood or become a nuisance as defined in this code, the Village Police Department may contact Animal Control to remove the animal for placement in the county animal pound.
   (D)   The owner may redeem the animal from the county animal pound pursuant to § 90.22 of this chapter. Failure to redeem the animal will result in its disposition pursuant to § 90.23 of this chapter.
(Prior Code, § 90-1-9) (Ord. 2006-014, passed 7-10-2006) Penalty, see § 90.99
§ 90.10 KEEPING ANIMALS.
   No person shall house or keep animals in any pen, stable, yard, confinement structure or any other place in such a manner that associated debris or odors are unreasonably offensive to persons residing in the vicinity or passing along any nearby street or alley, or constitute a hazard to the health of persons residing nearby. Any pen, stable, yard, confinement structure or other place where animals are housed or kept in violation of this section is declared to be a nuisance.
(Prior Code, § 90-1-10) (Ord. 2006-014, passed 7-10-2006) Penalty, see § 90.99
§ 90.11 BITING ANIMALS.
   No owner or keeper of an animal shall suffer, permit or fail to prevent an animal from biting or attacking a person or another animal resulting in injury to the person or animal attacked; provided that, such an attack on a person who is, or reasonably appears to be, in the commission of a criminal act is not prohibited if the animal is acting in the defense of the owner or keeper of his or her family or premises, and the animal remains on its premises. For purposes of this section, it is not necessary that the person bitten or attacked be arrested or convicted of a criminal offense.
(Prior Code, § 90-1-11) (Ord. 2006-014, passed 7-10-2006) Penalty, see § 90.99
§ 90.12 CONFINEMENT; WARNING OF DANGEROUS ANIMALS.
   No person shall own, keep or harbor within the village an animal known to be dangerous or vicious, unless such person shall keep such animal safely and securely confined so as to protect from injury any child or other person who may come on the premises in the vicinity where such animal may be located. Adequate warning by sign, or otherwise, shall be given to all persons coming on the premises in the vicinity of any such vicious or dangerous animal.
(Prior Code, § 90-1-12) (Ord. 2006-014, passed 7-10-2006) Penalty, see § 90.99
§ 90.13 KILLING OR ATTACKING ANIMALS.
   (A)   (1)   Except as permitted in § 130.023 of this code of ordinances, no person shall kill or wound or attempt to kill or wound by the use of a firearm, sling shot, bow and arrow, BB gun, air rifle or any other dangerous weapon, any animal within the village limits; provided that, this section shall not prohibit a person from defending himself or herself or another from attack by an animal.
      (2)   This section does not prohibit the use of a weapon by a police officer to destroy animals which are seriously injured to avoid unnecessary suffering or in self-defense or defense of others.
   (B)   Any owner seeing his or her livestock, poultry or equidae being injured, wounded or killed by a dog, not accompanied by or not under the supervision of its owner, may kill such dog.
(Prior Code, § 90-1-13) (Ord. 2006-014, passed 7-10-2006; Ord. 15-023, passed 8-3-2015) Penalty, see § 90.99
§ 90.14 CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.
   (A)   No person shall commit acts of cruelty to animals.
   (B)   The following acts shall be deemed to be examples of cruelty to animals and are not intended to be a complete list of acts which may constitute cruelty: (Doctors of veterinary medicine, in the performance of their profession, are not subject to the provisions of this section.)
      (1)   Overloading, overdriving, overworking, beating, torturing, tormenting, mutilating or killing any animal or causing or knowingly allowing the same to be done;
      (2)   Cruelly working any old, maimed, injured, sick or disabled animal or causing or knowingly allowing the same to be done;
      (3)   Failing to provide any animal in one’s charge or custody, as owner or keeper, with proper food, drink, shelter, air, sanitation or medical care; and/or
      (4)   Abandoning any animal without making provisions for its care and feeding.
(Prior Code, § 90-1-14) (Ord. 2006-014, passed 7-10-2006) Penalty, see § 90.99
§ 90.15 COCK FIGHTING; DOG FIGHTING.
   No person shall use or keep animals or be, in any way, connected with the management of any place kept or used for the purpose of fighting or baiting any dogs, cocks or other animals or permit such place to be kept or used on premises owned or controlled by such persons.
(Prior Code, § 90-1-15) (Ord. 2006-014, passed 7-10-2006) Penalty, see § 90.99
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