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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
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
(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
(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
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
(A) The owner or keeper of an animal shall be responsible for the disposal of such animal’s remains upon its death, from whatever cause, and regardless of the location of the remains of such animals.
(B) Animals remains shall be disposed of:
(1) By burial beneath at least 18 inches of compacted soil on the property of the animal’s owner or keeper, or any other location with the express permission of the owner of the property;
(2) By or through the county animal pound;
(3) By or through a licensed veterinarian; and/or
(4) By action of the Police Department.
(C) The Police Department may issue a written notice to any owner or keeper who has failed to properly dispose of the remains of an animal as prescribed herein. Such person shall have 24 hours from receipt of such notice to properly dispose of such remains. The notice shall be served on the violator personally or by leaving such notice at his or her usual place of abode with some person of the family, of the age of 13 years or upwards and informing that person of the contents thereof.
(D) The village may dispose of any animal’s remains without notice to the owner or keeper when:
(1) Such remains are located on a public roadway;
(2) The remains are located on the property of a person other than the owner or keeper; or
(3) Service of a notice on the owner or keeper is refused or not readily possible within a short time.
(E) In any case where a disposal notice is required, in accordance with division (C) above, on failure of a person served a notice to properly dispose of such remains within the time allowed, the remains may be disposed of by an employee of the village and all costs of such removal shall be paid by the owner or keeper of the dead animal to the village.
(F) A minimum charge of $50 for each hour or part of an hour spent by police officers or other village employees in disposing of the remains shall be levied against the owner or keeper when the village disposes of the remains. The village may institute legal proceedings to collect any amount owing by the owner or keeper providing that such suit is filed within two years of the issuance of the notice or disposal of the remains if no notice is required.
(Prior Code, § 90-1-16) (Ord. 2006-014, passed 7-10-2006) Penalty, see § 90.99
(A) Any animal discovered injured on a public way shall be impounded or picked up by the County Animal Control personnel, at the direction of a police officer, and processed in accordance with the procedures of the county pound.
(B) When a domestic animal is discovered dead on a public way, the police officer on duty shall attempt to ascertain its owner and shall request that the owner dispose of the remains. If a wild animal is discovered dead on the public way, or the officer cannot ascertain the owner of a dead domestic animal, the officer shall notify the Street Department of the animal and the Street Department shall dispose of the remains.
(Prior Code, § 90-1-17) (Ord. 2006-014, passed 7-10-2006)
No person shall, in any way, interfere with any person who is known to such person to be or who identifies himself or herself to be and is in fact, a village or county employee or other officer enforcing the provisions of this chapter or engaged in catching or impounding any animal under the authority of this chapter.
(Prior Code, § 90-1-18) (Ord. 2006-014, passed 7-10-2006) Penalty, see § 90.99
(A) It shall be the duty of police officers to request the County Animal Control personnel to take up and impound in the county animal pound any animal found at large or any dog found in the village without inoculation tags contrary to any of the provisions of this chapter or statutes of the state.
(B) Police officers and County Animal Control personnel are authorized to go on private property in order to enforce this chapter or to take up any animal which is believed to be at large or take up any dog found without required inoculation tags; however, such persons may not enter a private dwelling house for this purpose without a valid warrant or the consent of the occupant. Nor shall such persons remove an animal believed to be at large without reasonably attempting to ascertain whether the property on which the animal is found is owned by the owner or the authorized keeper of the animal.
(Prior Code, § 90-1-19) (Ord. 2006-014, passed 7-10-2006)
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