Peoria does not have a breed-specific ordinance and cannot enact one. Illinois Public Act 097-1108, which amended the Illinois Animal Control Act (510 ILCS 5/24), prohibits Illinois municipalities from regulating dogs in a manner specific to breed. All dog regulations in Peoria — including dangerous-dog designation — must be based on individual animal behavior, not breed.
Illinois Public Act 097-1108 (effective 2013) added Section 24 to the Illinois Animal Control Act (510 ILCS 5/24) at https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/ilcs/ilcs3.asp?ActID=1735 and explicitly preempted local breed-specific legislation: 'no unit of local government including a home rule unit may regulate dogs in a manner specific to breed.' Peoria, as a home-rule unit under Article VII Section 6 of the Illinois Constitution, is bound by this state-level limit on its police power. Peoria's Code Chapter 5 (Animals) therefore regulates dangerous and vicious dogs on a case-by-case behavior basis — through the dangerous-dog and vicious-dog designation process in 510 ILCS 5/15 — rather than by listing prohibited breeds. Owners of pit bulls, Rottweilers, German shepherds, and other commonly-restricted breeds in other states face the same rules in Peoria as owners of any other dog: leash and rabies-tag compliance, at-large prohibition, and behavior-based dangerous-dog hearings before the Peoria County Animal Control administrator.
Because breed-specific local ordinances are state-preempted, no Peoria citation can be issued solely based on a dog's breed. Citations are based on behavior — running at large, biting, threatening, or being declared dangerous or vicious under 510 ILCS 5/15. Misclassification of a dog as dangerous solely by breed would be reversible on appeal.
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