Office of the City Clerk - Record #: O2016-1703

• Record #: O2016-1703
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Failed to Pass
• Intro date: 3/16/2016
• Current Controlling Legislative Body: Committee on Health and Environmental Protection
• Title: Amendment of Municipal Code Section 7-12-420 requiring removal of pet waste from private property
• Sponsors: Emanuel, Rahm, Ramirez-Rosa, Carlos, Santiago, Milagros, Waguespack, Scott, Mell, Deborah, Austin, Carrie M.
• Topic: MUNICIPAL CODE AMENDMENTS - Title 7 - Health & Safety - Ch. 12 Animal Care & Control
• Related files: R2019-362

Date	Journal Page Number	Action By	Action	Result
5/29/2019		City Council	Failed to Pass
5/18/2016	24258	City Council	Deferred and Published
5/12/2016		Committee on Health and Environmental Protection	Recommended to Pass	Pass
3/16/2016	19401	City Council	Referred

OFFICE OF THE MAYOR
CITY OF CHICAGO
RAHM EMANUEL
MAYOR
March 16,2016










TO THE HONORABLE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO


Ladies and Gentlemen:

At the request of the Commissioner of Streets and Sanitation, I transmit herewith, together with Aldermen Ramirez-Rosa, Santiago, Waguespack, Mell and Austin, an ordinance amending Chapter 7-12 of the Municipal Code regarding pet waste.

Your favorable consideration of this ordinance will be appreciated.

Very truly yours,

Mayor

ORDINANCE



WHEREAS, The City of Chicago is a home-rule unit of government as defined in Article VII, Section 6 (a) of the Illinois Constitution, and, as such, may exercise any power and perform any function pertaining to its government and affairs; and

WHEREAS, The number of rodent-related complaints entered in the City's 311 system has steadily increased in recent years - from 32,855 in 2014 to 36,425 in 2015; and
WHEREAS, The number of rodent-related complaints has continued to rise in the year 2016, maintaining a pace to reach roughly 50,000 by the end of the year; and

WHEREAS, The pest control company Orkin named Chicago the #1 "rattiest" city in the nation in 2013 and 2014, as determined by the number of rodent treatments done by the company in each year; and

WHEREAS, One of rodents' main food sources in the City is the pet excrement they find in alleys, yards, and front lawns; and
WHEREAS, One of the City's most effective methods of combating rodents is containerization - because residents receiving City garbage service are given heavy duty plastic carts with tight fitting lids to contain garbage, they are able to cut off one of the main sources of food in an urban rat's diet; now therefore,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO:
SECTION 1. Section 7-12-420 of the Municipal Code of Chicago is hereby amended...