[Amended 2-20-2007 by Ord. No. 6161]
The following animal control services shall
be provided by the County of McHenry for the City of Crystal Lake
pursuant to the current Animal Control Agreement, as amended.
A.
The county shall provide animal patrol by automobile
for a minimum number of 30 hours per week.
B.
The County Animal Control Officer shall answer all
calls regarding animal control made by the residents of Crystal Lake
as soon as possible, considering the circumstances when received and
the other obligations of the Animal Control Officer. Routine animal
complaint calls shall not be answered after 9:00 p.m. Emergency calls
shall be answered at any time.
C.
All animal complaints or animal control complaints
will be answered by the county.
D.
All animal control measures, including but not limited
to tranquilization, live traps and other means for apprehending stray
animals, shall be operated by the Health Department within the City.
E.
The county shall provide all animal bite investigations
and other necessary animal control within the corporate limits of
the City.
F.
The enforcement of all animal control violations,
including the issuance of notices to appear, warrants of arrest, or
the filing of criminal complaints, shall be processed by the county.
G.
All animal complaint calls shall be made to the McHenry
County Animal Control Center or McHenry County Sheriff Department
and shall be relayed by said Department to the County Animal Control
Officer on duty.
H.
All animal complaints shall be serviced by the Animal
Control Officer at times determined by him/her, and considered in
his/her opinion to be most efficient and most consistent with good
animal control practice for the entire county. For the purposes of
this agreement, "good animal control practice" is defined as courteous,
rapid response to complaints with response time being dependent upon
the priority and emergency character of the complaint compared with
other calls dispatched simultaneously.
I.
Emergency calls shall include, but not be limited
to, calls relating to animal bites, calls relating to suspected rabid
animals, and calls concerning animals deemed dangerous to the public
health for any reason.
J.
The county shall pay and defray all costs for the
impoundment or confinement of strays, all known biters and all other
animals seized or controlled by it, regardless of where said animals
are seized or taken.
K.
The county shall provide the City authorities with
semiannual reports of all complaints received from City residents.
The report shall include the date and time the complaint was received,
response time and nature of the complaint.
During the term of said agreement the City agrees
that it shall not engage in any practice of registering, licensing,
or otherwise regulating dogs within the City limits. Registration
for all dogs shall be conducted exclusively by the county.
[Amended 2-20-2007 by Ord. No. 6161]
Registration fees to residents of the City shall
be in accordance with the McHenry County article regulating animal
control.
Registration of all dogs owned by residents
of the City of Crystal Lake shall be made in the offices of the county
at the McHenry County Department of Health at 2200 North Seminary
Avenue, Woodstock, Illinois, or at a place within the City designated
by the Department of Health, on or before the anniversary date of
each dog's rabies vaccination. Registration moneys collected by the
county from residents of the City shall be deposited with the County
Treasurer of McHenry County in the Animal Control Fund to be used
in accordance with the Animal Control Act of the State of Illinois
(510 ILCS 5/1 et seq.) and in paying for rabies control, stray animal
control and the like.
