[Ord. No. 05-02, 1-18-2005]
The County Board, pursuant to the authority granted to it by 510 ILCS 5/1 et seq., may require a fee for the registration of dogs and other domesticated animals, as they may decide in the future. The Administrator, his agents, deputies and wardens, as well as the employees of the County Animal Control Department, shall carry out the provisions of this Chapter requiring registration of dogs and other domesticated animals and the imposition of the registration fees ordained by resolution of the County Board, as well as any other fees authorized by the State Animal Control Act and Humane Care of Animals Act and implemented by the County Board.
[Ord. No. 05-02, 1-18-2005]
All registration fees collected shall be remitted to the County Treasurer, who shall place the monies in an Animal Control Fund. This fund shall be set up by the Treasurer for the purpose of paying costs of the Animal Control Program. All fees collected shall be used for the purpose of paying claims for loss of livestock or poultry as set forth in this Chapter and for the following purposes as established by ordinance of the County Board; funds may be utilized by local health departments or county nurse’s offices for the purchase of human anti-rabies serum, human vaccine, the cost for administration of serum or vaccine, minor medical care, and for paying the cost of stray dog control, impoundment, education on animal control and rabies, and other costs incurred in carrying out the provisions of this Chapter or any county or municipal ordinance concurred in by the Department relating to animal control, except as set forth in this Chapter.
[Ord. No. 05-02, 1-18-2005]
(A) 
Any person violating or aiding in or abetting the violation of any provision of either the State Animal Control Act or this Chapter, or counterfeiting or forging any certificate, permit, or tag, or making any misrepresentation in regard to any matter prescribed by this Chapter, or resisting, obstructing, or impeding the Administrator or any authorized officer in enforcing this Chapter, or refusing to produce for inoculation any dog in his possession not confined at all times to an enclosed area, or who removed a tag from a dog for purposes of destroying or concealing its identity, is guilty of a petty offense for a first or second offense and shall be fined not less than Twenty-Five Dollars ($25.00) nor more than Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00). For a third and any subsequent offense, the State’s Attorney shall prosecute the violations as misdemeanor offenses against state statutes, being a Class C misdemeanor.
(B) 
Each day a person fails to comply constitutes a separate offense. The State’s Attorney to whom the Administrator reports any violation of this Chapter or the State Animal Control Act shall cause appropriate proceedings to be instituted in the proper courts without delay and to be prosecuted in the manner provided by law.
(C) 
If the owner of a dog subject to enclosure:
(1) 
Fails to maintain or keep the dog in an enclosure; and
(2) 
The dog inflicts great bodily harm, permanent disfigurement, permanent physical disability upon any other person or causes the death of another person; and
(3) 
The attack is unprovoked in a place where the person is peaceably conducting himself and where the person may lawfully be;
the owner shall be guilty of a violation of this Chapter, as well as a Class A misdemeanor. However, if the owner knowingly allowed the dog to run at large or failed to take steps to keep the dog in an enclosure, then, in that case, the owner shall be guilty of a Class 4 felony. The penalty provided in this Section shall be in addition to any other criminal or civil sanction provided by law.