Countywide, every dog and cat over four months must be vaccinated against rabies and registered with Champaign County Animal Control. Off its property, a dog must be on a leash no longer than six feet in unincorporated areas; Champaign and Urbana add city leash laws.
Two layers govern dogs here. Countywide, the Champaign County Animal Control ordinance requires every dog or cat four or more months old to be inoculated against rabies annually and registered with Animal Control, which issues a serially numbered county tag. For restraint, the county ordinance defines a dog off its property as under control only on a leash no more than six feet long held by a competent person, and treats dogs running at large in unincorporated areas as a nuisance. Inside the cities of Champaign and Urbana, municipal leash ordinances apply on top of this. Owners must clean up after their dogs, and off-leash freedom is limited to designated dog parks.
A dog running at large or off-leash can be impounded and the owner cited. Failing to vaccinate and register a dog or cat over four months carries a county penalty, commonly $100 per violation.
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