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PROPOSED ORDINANCE AMENDMENT
ANIMAL AND RABIES CONTROL ORDINANCE AMENDMENT
BE IT ORDAINED, by the Cook County Board of Commissioners, that CHAPTER 10 - ANIMALS, ARTICLE I. - IN GENERAL, Sec. 10-1. of the Cook County Code is 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:
Administrator shall have the meaning provided by the Illinois Animal Control Act (510 ILCS 5/2.01).
Administrator means the licensed veterinarian appointed by the County Board, pursuant to the Illinois Animal Control Act (510 ILCS 5/1 et seq.) or authorized representative.
Animal means any live vertebrate creature except man.
Animal capable of transmitting rabies means all animals classified as mammals.
Animal control warden means an employee of the County appointed by the Administrator to powers in the enforcement of this chapter.
Bird means any flying vertebrate that is covered with feathers.
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.
Cat means all members of the classification, Felis catus.
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.
Confined means the restriction of the cat, dog or other animal at all times by the owner in a manner that will isolate the cat, dog or other animal from the public and other cats, dogs or other animals.
Control means any owned animal that is either secure...
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