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1970-038ORDINANCE NO. 70 AN ORDINANCE CONCERNING ANIMALS AND FOWL BE IT ORDAINED BY THE PPESIDENT AND BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE VILLAGE OF BUFFALO GROVE, COOK AND LAKE COUNTIES, ILLINOIS. ARTICLE I — General Provisions SECTION 1. Cruelty. No person shall cruelly treat any animal in the Village in any way. Any person who inhumanely beats, underfeeds, overloads., or abandons any animal shall be deemed guilty of a violation of this Section. SECTION 2. Dangerous animals. It shall be unlawful to permit any dangerous, vicious or unruly animal of any kind to run at large within the Village. SECTION 3. Noise-Offensive Odors. It shall be unlawful to harbor or keep any animal or fowl which may in any manner continuously give off offensive odors or continuously disturb the quiet of any person or neighborhood, or which in any manner injure any animal, plant, shrub not on the premises of its owner or keeper. or fowl is hereby declared to be a nuisance. other penalty herein provided, said animal or shall destroy or or other property Nny such animal In addition to any fowl shall be impounded and may be redeemed or disposed of as hereinafter set forth. SECTION 4. Keeping Animals. Except in those areas zoned as farms, it shall be unlawful to keep any animal or fowl (except domesticated cats, dogs or caged birds) in the Village or to allow or permit such animal or fowl at large in the Village. I* • r .1.1 SECTION 5. Killing dangerous animals. Any member of the police department is hereby authorized to---kill any dangerous animal or fowl of any kind when it is necessary for the protection of any person or property. SECTION 6. Dead animal or fowl. No person shall place or deposit or cause to be placed or deposited at any place in the Village the remains of any dead animal or fowl. SECTION 7. Diseased animals. No animal afflicted with a contagious disease or zoonotic disease shall be allowed to run at large, or to be exposed in any public area whereby the health of any person or other animal may be affected; nor shall such diseased animal be shipped or removed from thepremises of the owner or keeper thereof, except under supervision of the Village Health Officer. It is hereby made the duty of the Village Health Officer and the Chief of Police to secure such disposition of any diseased animal and such treatment of affected premises as to prevent the communication and spread of contagion or infection. SECTION 8. Housing. No person shall cause or allow any place where any animal or fowl is or may be kept to become unclean or unwholesome. ARTICLE II - Dogs SECTION 1. Register and License Required. Any person who keeps, harbors or otherwise maintains a dog in the Village more - •r than four months of age shall register and procure a dog license for the same. Any dog over four months of age purchased or otherwise acquired shall also be registered and licensed as provided herein not later than fifteen days after the same becomes four months of age. SECTION'2. Application for License. The application for registration and license shall be made to the Village Clerk and shall state the name, address and telephone number of the owner, the breed, color, sex, name and date of inoculation against rabies of the dog to be registered. The Village Clerk shall cause this information to be entered in a dog register book at the time of registration. SECTION 3. License Tag Upon payment of the license fee required herein and upon presentation of certificate of licensed veterinarian that the dog to be registered and licensed has been inoculated against rabies the Village Clerk shall issue a license certificate and metal license tag for each dog registered. Each tag shall have stamped thereon a number corresponding with the number of the license certificate. In case a license tag is lost or destroyed, a duplicate will be issued by the Village Clerk upon payment of $1.00. SECTION 4. License Fee. The license shall be three dollars for each dog, for each year or fraction thereof as herein provided. Licenses shall expire one year from date of issuance of last rabies shot. -3- • 0 SECTION 5. Inoculation Against Rabies. (a) It shall be the duty of every owner or any person who keeps, harbors or otherwise maintains a dog more than four months of age in the Village to have the same inoculated against rabies by a licenses veterinarian during each twelve month period preceding the da%e such dog is required to be registered. The type and brand of the anti -rabie vaccine used and the method of inoculation shall be approved by the Department of Agriculture of the State and the United States Department of Agriculture. Any dog which is not inoculated against rabies as required herein is hereby declared to be a public nuisance and such dog may be apprehended and impounded upon the order of the Chief of Police or Public Health Officer. (b) It shall be the duty of the owner of any cat kept in the Village or of any person who harbors a cat on premises owned or occupied by him in the Village to have the cat inoculated against rabies at lease once each year. Every such owner of a cat or person harboring a cat shall display evidence of inoculation of the cat upon demand made by any duly authorized officer of the Village. SECTION 6. Collar and Tag. Every owner shall provide each dog, more than four months of age kept, harbored or otherwise maintained by him in the Village, with a sturdy collar to which the aforesaid license tag shall be securely fastened and it shall -4- w 0 be the owner's or keeper's duty to make certain that the collar and tag are worn at all times by the dog when off the owner's or keeper's premises. SECTION 7. Unauthorized removal of Tag. It shall be unlawful for any person other than a police officer, or other person charged with the enforcement of this Article to remove a license tag from any dog without the owner's or his agent's consent. SECTION 8. Running at Large. It shall be unlawful to permit any dog to run at large within the Village limits. Any dog found upon any public street, sidewalk, alley, parkway, or any enclosed place shall be deemed running at large unless such dog is firmly held on a leash or is in an enclosed vehicle. Dogs shall be prohibited from any church, school, public hall or building, office, store or market, restaurant or other place where food is served during the time said place is open for business. If any dog shall be found upon the private premises of any other person than the owner or keeper of such dog, the owner or keeper of such dog shall be deemed guilty of a violation of this section. The provisions of this section shall not apply to dogs leading blind persons, or to dogs exhibited at dog or pet shows, or dog training schools. SECTION 9. Nuisances. Any dog which runs at large is hereby declared to be a public nuisance and such dog shall be -5- • 0 apprehended and impounded if found running at large by any police officer, animal warden or other person charged with the enforcement of this Article. SECTION 10. Dangerous Dogs. Any dog of fierce,chngerous or vicious propensities shall be confined by the owner on the owner's premises at all times in such a manner that it cannot reach persons who may have occasion to lawfully enter upon said premises. SECTION 11. Dog bites. It shall be the duty of the owner of any dog to prevent such dog from biting or attacking any person in the Village, and if a person is bitten by a dog, the owner or keeper and the person bitten shall report the incident to the police department immediately. Any dog which unprovokedly bites or attacks any person in the Village is hereby declared to be a public nuisance and such dog may be apprehended and impounded by a police officer or other person charged with the enforcement of this Article. If an owner or keeper has notice that his dog has bitten any person, it shall be unlawful for such owner or keeper to kill such dog, or sell or give such dog away, or to permit or allow such dog to be taken beyond the limits of the Village except to a licensed veterinarian or veterinary hospital. It shall be the duty of such owner or keeper to immediately report the incident to the police department and to immediately place such dog in a -6- licensed veterinary hospital where such dog shall be quarantined for a period of at least ten days, or upon the request of any police officer, or other person charged with the enforcement of this Article, to deliver such dog to them for such placement. The owner or keeper shall immediately furnish the police department with the name and location of said hospital and a certificate of a licensed veterinarian stating whether or not such dog shows symptoms of rabies. At the expiration of the quarantine period, and prior to the release of such dog, the owner ok keeper shall furnish the police department with another certificate of a licensed veterinarian stating that such dog does not have rabies. All costs of maintaining such dog in a veterinary hospital shall be the obligation and responsibility of the owner or keeper and shall be paid by said owner or keeper. In all cases where any dog has bitten a person and is slain or dies within ten days from the time of the bite, it shall be the duty of the person slaying such dog and the owner or keeper of such dog to notify the police department and to immediately deliver the head of such dog intact to said department, or cause the same to be done. SECTION 12. Sanitation. It shall be unlawful for the owner or person in control of any dog to permit such animal to urinate or deposit dung on any public street, alley, parkway or other public place or on any premises other than those of the owner or -7- person in control of such dog. SECTION 13. Rabies. Any dog suffering from rabies is hereby declared to be a public nuisance and such dog may be slain by any police officer, or such other person charged with the enforcement of this Article, if the same cannot be safely apprehended, and impounded. It shall be the duty of any owner or person keeping, harboring or otherwise maintaining any such dog to place it immediately in a veterinary hospital, or upon demand, to surrender such dog to any police officer or other person charged with the enforcement of this Article. It shall be the duty of every person who discovers that any dog is suffering with rabies or that any dog or other animal has been bitten by a dog or other animal suffering with rabies to report such fact immediately to the police or any other person charged with the enforcement of this Article. Such report shall give the name, if known, and the place of residence of the person keeping, harboring, or otherwise maintaining any such dog or other animal, the place where the same can be found, and the license number of any dog, if known. Any such dog or other animal shall be immediately confined in a veterinary hospital, or taken up and impounded and securely kept until it can be determined whether any such dog or animal is suffering with rabies. SECTION 14. Muzzles. Whenever the Village President, by proclamation, shall declare that danger from rabies is great, it shall be unlawful to permit or allow any dog upon any public street,, alley, sidewalk, parkway or other public place, unless such dog is leashed and securely muzzled. SECTION 15. Impounding dogs. The person in charge, upon receiving any impounded dog, shall make a complete registry entering the breed, color and sex of such dog, and whether licensed. If licensed., he shall enter the name, address and telephone number of the owner and the number of the license tag. Licensed dogs shall be separated from unlicensed dogs. Not later than twenty-four hours after the impounding of any dog, the owner shall be notified by mail sent to his address listed on the dog register book, or if the owner of the dog is unknown, notice shall be posted at the Village pound and at the Village hall describing the dog and the time and place of taking. SECTION 16. Redemption from pound. The owner of any licensed dog so impounded, or the person claiming to be the owner of any unlicensed dog, may redeem such dog in accordance with the provisions of this Article upon payment of the license fee, if unpaid, and an impounding charge of $3.50 for each day or fraction thereof, that such dog is impounded, All fees and charges shall be paid to the Village Clerk and upon presentation of a proper -receipt from said Village Clerk, the person in charge of the Village pound shall release such dog in accordance with the provisions of this Article. Any dog which has been apprehended by any police officer or any person charged with the enforcement of this Article shall -9- be deemed to have been impou:iided i:'E, in" the opinion of such police officer or person charged with the enforcement of this Article, confinement in a temporary place of safe keeping is necessary. SECTION 17. Disposition of unclaimed dogs. It shall be the duty of the person in charge of the Village pound to keep all dogs impounded in accordance with the provisions of this Article. If any impounded dog is not redeemed at the expiration of the sixth day afta:--the day notice was mailed or posted or provided herein, such dog may be destroyed or otherwise disposed of, without further notice. Any person may redeem such dog in accordance with the provisions of this Article after the time for redemption by the has has passed. SECTION 18. Unlawful treatment of dogs. It shallbe unlawful for any person to maliciously shoot, poison, kill, injure, abuse or ill-treat any dog. Any person who kills or injures a dog while driving a vehicle shall stop at the scene of the accident and render such assistance as practicable and shall immediately report the incident to the police department. SECTION 19. Exceptions. The provisions ofthis Article relating to licenses shall not apply to dogs receiving treatment or temporary care in veterinary hospitals, boarding kennels or pet shops within the Village. SECTION 20. Enforcement. The Village Health Officer, Chief of Police and such other persons as may be designated by them are hereby authorized and directed to enforce this Article. -1 ()_ SECTION 21. Village to provide pound. The President and Board of Trustees may contract to provide a suitable place for the impounding of dogs. SECTION 22. Penalty. Any person convicted of any violation of the provisions of this Ordinance shall be fined not less than fifteen dollars nor more than five hundred dollars for each offense and each day that such violation continues shall be considered a separate offense. SECTION 23. Conflict. The provisions of any Ordinance in conflict herewith is hereby repealed. In the event any provision of this Ordinance is declared invalid, the same sI-n ll not invalidate the remaining provisions hereof. SECTION 24. This Ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage, approval and publication according to law. AYES:— a NAYES : at ABSENT: PASSED : %GAS/• Ogg? 1970 APPROVED: ATTEST: &ffesident Ir Secr&ta fry Published. ���, 1970. -11-