Police Department

A. The owner, keeper or person having custody of any dog or other animal which has bitten any person shall report to the Police Department giving the name of the person bitten, the date of the occurrence, the type of animal and whether or not the animal has been inoculated for rabies.

B. It shall be unlawful for any person having knowledge that a person has been bitten by a dog or other animal to notify the Police Department promptly.

C. No owner or keeper of any dog, or other animal, when notified that such dog or other animal has bitten any person, or has so injured any person as to cause an abrasion of the skin shall sell or give away such dog or permit or allow such dog or other animal to be taken beyond the limits of the Village.

D. The Police Department shall instruct the owner of the dog or other animal to take the dog or other animal to a veterinarian for observation on the first day and the tenth day following the incident.

E. It shall be unlawful for the owner of such dog or other animal to refuse or fail to comply with the instructions of the Police Department to take the dog or other animal to a veterinarian.

F. The Police Department shall report the incident to the Health Officer who will notify the Cook County Rabies Control Inspector.

G. In the event of a person being bitten by a stray dog or other animal, the dog or other animal will be impounded, if possible, in the Village pound by any policeman or pound keeper.  The pound keeper will cause the dog or other animal to be observed by a veterinarian on the first and tenth day following the incident.

Any expenses incurred in the handling of any dog or other animal under this Section shall be borne by the owner:

A. Overloading, overdriving, overworking, cruelly beating, torturing, tormenting, mutilating or cruelly killing any animal or causing or knowingly allowing the same to be done.

B. Cruelly working any old, maimed, infirm, sick, or disabled animal, or causing or knowingly allowing the same to be done.

C. Unnecessarily failing to provide any animal in his charge or custody, as owner or otherwise with proper food, drink, shelter, and air.

D. Abandoning any old, maimed, infirm, sick or disabled animal

E. Driving, or causing to be driven or kept, any animal in an unnecessary cruel manner.

F. Carrying or causing to be kept, any animal bound or tied by its legs, or bound down by the neck, so that it cannot freely stand in an upright position while being transported or by carrying or causing to be carried. Keeping or causing to be kept any animal, in any crate or cage, so constructed as to permit such animal to push its head between the slats, wires or other openings of such crate or cage, unless the space between such slats or wires is sufficient, to permit such animal to freely withdraw its head there from.  The word "animal" as used in this Section, shall be taken and is hereby defined to mean any dumb creature.

A. No person owning, keeping, or harboring a dog or cat shall allow such dog or cat to be at large in the Village on any public street, park or other public property or on private premises other than those of the owner or keeper of such dog or cat.  No dog or cat shall be deemed to be at large while attended by the owner or keeper, or other person and firmly held by a chain or leash in such manner as to prevent said dog from biting any person or animal, or from running onto any private premises.  The owner or keeper of any dog or cat who permits such dog or cat to be at large in violation of the provisions of this Section shall be subject to penalty and any dog or cat may be impounded as herein provided. (amd. 2-1-94-4)

B. Any dog or cat running at large in the Village and any dog or cat that may in any manner disturb the quiet of any person or neighborhood or that shall so bite or so injure a person as to cause an abrasion of the skin is declared to be a nuisance, and such dog or cat shall be taken up and impounded. If such dog or cat cannot be safely taken up and impounded, it may be killed by any policeman.

C. No dog or cat, whether or not attended by the owner or keeper, or other person, and held or led by chain or leash as provided in subsection (A) hereof, shall be permitted in the area of any public park set aside for the playing of tennis, baseball or other game, or for use as a tot lot.

D. It shall be unlawful for any person to permit any dog or cat to go upon the private property of any but the owner of said dog or cat without the permission of the owner of the aforementioned property.

E. It shall be unlawful for any person to harbor a stray or unowned or unclaimed domestic or wild animal.

A. Any dangerous, fierce or vicious dog running at large in any street, alley or other public place within the Village or upon the private premises of any person, other than the owner or keeper thereof, and any dog which may in any manner unduly disturb the quiet of, endanger or annoy any person or neighborhood within the Village, or which shall bite any person or so injure any person as to cause an abrasion of the skin is hereby declared to be a nuisance  and such dog shall be taken up and impounded in the manner provided in Section 9-7-38.

B. If any dangerous, fierce or vicious dog cannot safely be taken up and impounded, such do may be killed by an police officer of the Village; provided, however, that in all cases where any dog so killed has bitten any person or caused a abrasion of the skin of any such person it shall be the duty of the police officer killing such dog to forthwith deliver the carcass and the brain of such dog to the Health Department of the Village for examination. 

A. It shall be unlawful for any person to engage in solicitation without securing a required permit or in a manner inconsistent with the issuance of the permit.

 B. Every person desiring to engage in commercial, charitable or religious solicitation, as defined in this article, from persons in residences, on streets, highways, or sidewalks located in the Village, except for a merchant conducting a sale on the sidewalk as permitted under the Village?s zoning ordinance, is hereby required to make written application for a solicitation permit as hereinafter provided, and obtain such permit prior to engaging in solicitation within the Village.

 C. Application for solicitation permits shall be made upon a form provided by, and shall be submitted to, the Village Clerk, and shall be accompanied by such other documentation as is required herein.

 D. All statements made by the applicant upon the application or in connection therewith shall be under oath.

 E. The Village Clerk and the Chief of Police shall cause to be kept in their offices an accurate record of every application received and acted upon, together with all other information and data pertaining thereto, and copies of all solicitation permits issued under the provisions of this Article.  Applications for permits shall be numbered in consecutive order, as filed, and every permit issued and. any renewal thereof shall be identified with the -duplicate number of the application upon which it was issued.

 F. No solicitation permit permitting door to door residential solicitation shall be issued to any person who has been convicted of the commission of a felony under the laws of this State or any other State or Federal law of the United States or misconduct which constitutes a Class A Misdemeanor involving dishonesty or false statements under Illinois law or similar violation in any other state, within five (5) years of the date of the permit application.  No solicitation permit shall be issued to any person who has been convicted of a violation of any of the provisions of this Article, nor to any person whose solicitation permit issued hereunder has previously been revoked, as herein provided, for a period of one year from the date of such conviction or revocation.

 G. Not withstanding paragraphs 10-34-2 A - F above, an elementary, Junior High or high school student soliciting for the benefit of a school or community (scouts, little league, etc.) activity or program need not obtain a solicitation permit -from the Village, but shall instead display their student I.D. or an I.D. from their school or organization stating the student's name and the school or organization for whose benefit the student is soliciting. 

A. In any intersection.

B. In a crosswalk.

C. Upon any bridge or viaduct, or in any subway or tunnel or the approach thereto.

D. Between a safety zone and the adjacent curb or within thirty feet (30') of a point of the curb immediately opposite the end of a safety zone.

E. Within thirty fee (30') of a traffic signal, beacon, or sign on the approaching side.

F. Within twenty feet (20') of any intersection or crosswalk.

G. At any place where the standing of a vehicle will reduce the usable width of the roadway for moving traffic to less than eighteen feet (18').

H. Within fifteen feet (15') of a fire hydrant, measured parallel to the curb line in both directions.

I. At any place where the vehicle would block the use of a driveway.

J. Within fifty feet (50') of the nearest rail of a railroad grade crossing.

K. Within twenty feet (20') of the driveway entrance to any Fire Department station and on the side of the street opposite the entrance to any such station within seventy five feet (75') of such entrance when properly sign posted.

L. On any sidewalk or parkway.

M. At any place where official signs prohibit parking. (Ord. 10-1-85-3, 10-1-85).

N.  In the front yard or side yard of any building in any residential area except on a hard surfaced driveway.  (Ord. 4-1-86)

P. On any Village Street without current State Registration. When two registration plates are issued by the State for motor vehicles one shall be attached therto in the front and one in the rear.
(Amend. 01-18-00-2)

Q. On the following streets posted as "Resident Parking Only":
1. On the east side of Custer Avenue
2. On the 4100 block of Lawndale Avenue.
3. On the 4600 block of Winchester

R. On the following streets posted as "Resident Parking Class E Decal Only":
1. On the north side of 42nd Street between Leland and Lawndale Avenue.

S. In a designated and marked fire lane.

T. Parked in a designated handicapped space.

A. It is unlawful to park any vehicle for a period of time longer than three (3) minutes for loading and unloading passengers, or thirty (30) minutes for loading and unloading of property at any place, whether designated a loading zone or not, so designated on any through street or any street upon which public transportation is operated between the hours of one o'clock (1:00) A.M. and seven o'clock (7:00) A.M. after November 15, and before April 1 of each year or any time after snow begins to fall and for a period of eight (8) hours after snow stops falling, if the snow on the street exceeds two inches (2") in depth, provided that said eight (8) hour parking restriction shall continue during snow removal operations until completed.

B. Signs: The President of the Village has power to designate by appropriate signs any place on any other street where no parking is permitted during the hours in the season described in this Section.  

Each owner of a motor vehicle, motorcycle, or motor driven cycle, who resides with in the Village, shall annually purchase a license for such vehicle and pay to the Village an annual license fee for the use of such vehicle on any public street or highway within the Village.  The United States, the State, units of local government and school districts created under the laws of the State shall be exempt from the requirement to obtain an annual license and pay the annual license fee for all vehicles owned by said public bodies and used exclusively for the public purposes of said public body.

No person shall use, or cause or permit any agents or employees to use, any motor vehicle upon the public streets or highways in the Village unless such vehicle is licensed.  Leased or rented vehicles may be licensed in the name of the owner or custodian of the vehicle and if such vehicle is in custody of the resident of the Village assigned it said person's total use, that person shall be required to license such vehicle in accordance herewith unless said vehicle has a current license from another corporate equity.  It shall constitute prima facie evidence that a motor vehicle is operated upon the public streets or highways within the Village, when the motor vehicle is registered to a named person at an address within the Village limits of the Village.

No commercial vehicle shall be parked in the Village of Lyons for any length of time unless a current vehicle license sticker is affixed to its front windshield from the Village of Lyons or from some other corporate entity.  Such commercial vehicle may be licensed in the name of its actual owner, or in the name of the Village of Lyons person or entity which is the custodian of the vehicle.

1. No commercial vehicle or portion thereof with a license above a "B" plate or licensed for a gross weight, including vehicle and cargo of 8,001 pounds or more may be parked overnight on any street of the Village of Lyons.  Commercial vehicles, including limousines, and those licensed below a "B" plate or for a gross weight of vehicle and cargo of 8000 pounds or less are permitted to park overnight on any street of the Village of Lyons.

A. No commercial vehicle with a license above a "B" plate or licensed for a gross weight, including vehicle and cargo of 8,001 pounds or more shall be parked at any time on any parkway or public way in the Village of Lyons; nor shall any such vehicle be parked on the front setback area between the plane of the front of the building and the front lot line.

2. No commercial or recreational vehicle shall be used for warehouses, storage bins or loading bins within the Village of Lyons. 

(A) The depositing of the bond for his appearance in court to answer for each violation; and

B) Depositing the amount of the fine or penalty for each violation for which there is an outstanding or otherwise unsettled traffic violation notice or warrant, and the payment of the fees as required by section 10-19-5 of this chapter.

The owner of an immobilized vehicle, or other authorized person, shall have the right to a post-immobilization court date to determine the validity of such immobilization, towing and any towing or storage charges.  Such court date must be requested within fifteen (15) days after the vehicle is immobilized.