The owner of a dog or cat shall have the dog
or cat vaccinated against rabies by a veterinarian within 30 days
after the dog or cat reaches five months of age and revaccinated within
one year after the initial vaccination. If the owner obtains the dog
or cat or brings the dog or cat into the City of Montello after the
dog or cat has reached five months of age, the owner shall have the
dog or cat vaccinated against rabies within 30 days after the dog
or cat is obtained or brought into the City, unless the dog or cat
has been vaccinated as evidenced by a current certificate of rabies
vaccination from this state or another state. The owner of a dog or
cat shall have the dog or cat revaccinated against rabies by a veterinarian
before the date that the immunization expires as stated on the certificate
of vaccination or, if no date is specified, within three years after
the previous vaccination.
[Amended 7-6-2005]
An owner who fails to have a dog vaccinated against rabies as required under §
117-2 shall be subject to a penalty as provided in Chapter
1, §
1-4 of this Code.
The Police Department may seize and impound
any dog running at large or any unlicensed dog at large or upon a
person's premises. Upon the impounding of any dog, the Police Department
shall notify the owner personally or through the United States mail,
if such owner is known to the Police Department or can be ascertained
with reasonable effort. If after seven days the owner does not claim
such dog, the Police Department shall dispose of the dog in a proper
and humane manner.
A. Owner may redeem dog. The owner of any dog impounded
may redeem his dog within the period above specified upon the payment
of an impounding fee of $5 plus the actual costs per day for the dog's
keep.
[Amended 7-6-2005]
B. City not liable for impounding dogs. The City shall
not be liable for the death of any dog which has been impounded or
disposed of pursuant to this section.
[Amended 9-26-2019]
No dog or cat is permitted on any school ground or other public
grounds within the City unless such dog or cat is on a leash. Dogs
and cats are prohibited from being in cemeteries. Law enforcement
canines and service animals as defined by the federal Americans With
Disabilities Act (ADA) shall be exempt from this section.
No person, except a peace officer or health
or humane officer in pursuit of his duties, shall within the City
shoot or kill or commit an act of cruelty on any animal or bird.
Any police officer may shelter and care for
any animal found to be cruelly exposed to the weather, starved, neglected
or abandoned and may deliver such animal to another person to be sheltered,
cared for and given medical attention, if necessary. In all cases
the owner, if known, shall be immediately notified and the person
having possession of the animal shall have a lien thereon for his
care, keeping, medical attention and expenses of notice. Whenever
in the opinion of a police officer an animal is hopelessly injured
or diseased so as to be beyond the probability of recovery, such police
officer may kill such animal.
Any person owning or having control of any dog,
cat or other animal shall clean up the feces of such animal immediately
and dispose of it in a sanitary manner. No animal feces shall be permitted
to remain exposed upon any private or public property.
Every owner or person harboring or keeping a
dog who knows that such dog has bitten any person shall immediately
report such fact to the City Chief of Police and shall keep such dog
confined for such period of time as the Chief of Police shall direct.
The owner of keeper of any such dog shall surrender the dog to the
Chief of Police upon his demand for examination.
No person shall take or permit to remain any
dog, cat or other live animal on or upon any premises where food is
sold, offered for sale or processed for consumption by the general
public.
[Added 4-7-1986]
An owner who fails to observe any other condition or term of this chapter in relation to the licensing and regulation of dogs and animals shall be subject to a penalty as provided in Chapter
1, §
1-4 of this Code, unless otherwise provided under this chapter.