As used in this article, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
Any institution, place, or enclosure used for the harboring
or reception for care or treatment of two or more horses, dogs, cats,
or other animals.
No person shall manage, conduct, operate, or carry on the business
of a veterinary hospital without first having obtained a license therefor.
Any person desiring to conduct, carry on or operate a veterinary
hospital, as defined in this article, shall make a written application
to the City Clerk for a license to do so, which shall conform to the
general requirements of the City Code relating to applications for
licenses.[2] Such application shall be filed with the City Clerk, who
shall thereupon transmit it to the Director of Public Health and Safety.
Upon receipt of the application referred to in § 17.72, the Director of Public Health and Safety shall cause such investigation to be made as in his judgment is necessary for the issuance of the license. If the Director of Public Health and Safety approves the application, and the applicant has paid the license fee required by the City Code, the City Clerk shall issue to the applicant the license required by this article.
(A)
All veterinary hospitals shall be kept free and clean from decaying
food and from filth of any kind. Every veterinary hospital conducted,
maintained, or managed by any person licensed by this article shall
at all times be open to the inspection of the Director of Public Health
and Safety, his duly appointed assistants or inspectors; and the Director
of Public Health and Safety is hereby authorized and empowered to
inspect the same, or cause inspection thereof to be made, whenever
and as often as he may deem proper; and if, upon such inspection,
he shall find any such hospital to be conducted, managed or maintained
in violation of the terms of the application for the license under
which such hospital was opened, conducted, managed or maintained,
or in violation of any of the provisions of this article, or any of
the health or sanitary ordinances, rules or regulations of the City,
then and in that event he may suspend the license for 10 days pending
final action by the Mayor and the City Council on revocation.
(B)
It shall also be the further duty of all persons licensed under this
article to make a report to the Director of Public Health and Safety
of any communicable diseases or disease due to poisoning which may
exist in such veterinary hospital.
(C)
Provision shall be made in such veterinary hospital for securely
impounding any animal confined for observation for rabies. Special
precaution shall be taken to securely and separately confine any such
animals during such period of observation, and a report shall be made
to the Director of Public Health and Safety of any such animal confined
in any veterinary hospital. Said veterinary hospitals shall comply
with the Animal Welfare Act of the State of Illinois (225 ILCS 605/1
et seq.).
