Board of Commissioners of Cook County - File #: 19-0412

• File #: 19-0412
• Version: 2
• Name: ANIMAL AND RABIES CONTROL ORDINANCE
• Type: Ordinance Amendment
• Status: Approved
• File created: 11/27/2018
• In control: Legislation and Intergovernmental Relations Committee
• On agenda: 4/25/2019
• Final action: 7/25/2019
• Title: PROPOSED SUBSTITUTE TO FILE 19-0412 Legislation and Intergovernmental Relations Committee 7/24/2019 Sponsored by: TONI PRECKWINKLE (President), Cook County Board of Commissioners PROPOSED ORDINANCE AMENDMENT ANIMAL AND RABIES CONTROL ORDINANCE BE IT ORDAINED, by the Cook County Board of Commissioners, that Chapter 10, Animals, Sections 10-2, 10-6, 10-7, 10-8, 10-9, 10-42, 10-78, 10-87, and 10-99, of the Cook County Code are hereby amended as follows: Sec. 10-2. - Definitions. The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this chapter shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning: *** Bite means seizure of a person, service animal or companion animal with the jaws or teeth of any cat, dog or other animal capable of transmitting rabies so that the person, service animal or companion animal so seized has been wounded or pierced and further includes contact of the saliva of cat, dog or other an...
• Sponsors: TONI PRECKWINKLE (President), ALMA E. ANAYA, SCOTT R. BRITTON, JOHN P. DALEY, BRIDGET DEGNEN, BRANDON JOHNSON, KEVIN B. MORRISON, PETER N. SILVESTRI, LARRY SUFFREDIN

Date	Ver.	Action By	Motion	Result
7/25/2019	1	Board of Commissioners	approve as substituted	Pass
7/24/2019	1	Legislation and Intergovernmental Relations Committee	accept as substituted	Pass
7/24/2019	2	Legislation and Intergovernmental Relations Committee	recommend for approval as substituted	Pass
5/23/2019	1	Board of Commissioners	defer	Pass
5/22/2019	1	Legislation and Intergovernmental Relations Committee	recommend for deferral	Pass
4/25/2019	1	Board of Commissioners	refer	Pass

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PROPOSED SUBSTITUTE TO FILE 19-0412
Legislation and Intergovernmental Relations Committee 7/24/2019

Sponsored by: TONI PRECKWINKLE (President), Cook County Board of Commissioners

PROPOSED ORDINANCE AMENDMENT

ANIMAL AND RABIES CONTROL ORDINANCE

BE IT ORDAINED, by the Cook County Board of Commissioners, that Chapter 10, Animals, Sections 10-2, 10-6, 10-7, 10-8, 10-9, 10-42, 10-78, 10-87, and 10-99, of the Cook County Code are hereby amended as follows:

Sec. 10-2. - Definitions.

The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this chapter shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:

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Bite means seizure of a person, service animal or companion animal with the jaws or teeth of any cat, dog or other animal capable of transmitting rabies so that the person, service animal or companion animal so seized has been wounded or pierced and further includes contact of the saliva of cat, dog or other animal with any break or abrasion of the skin.

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Companion animal means a domesticated or domestic-bred animal whose physical, emotional, behavioral and social need can be readily met as a companion in the home, or in close daily relationship with a person or persons.

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Scratch means to score, mark or break the skin of a person, service animal or companion animal, by a dog, cat or ferret, using nail or tooth.

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Sec. 10-6. - Duties of Administrator; police power; cooperation of Sheriff and police.
(a) It shall be the duty of the Administrator, through public education, rabies inoculation, stray control, impoundment, quarantine and other means deemed necessary to control and prevent the spread of rabies in the County.
(b) The Administrator and Animal Control Wardens are for the purpose of enforcing this chapter and the Animal Control Act (510 ILCS 5/1 et seq.), clothed with full police power.
(c) The Sheriff and Sheriff's Deputies and municipal police o...