Animal care - License required when - Permit required for temporary animal exhibitions.
Municipal Code of Chicago § 4-384-020
in effect4-384-020 Animal care - License required when - Permit required for temporary animal exhibitions.
(a) No person shall engage in the business of a grooming facility, guard dog service, pet shop, animal care facility, humane society, veterinary hospital or permanent animal exhibition without having first obtained an animal care license under this chapter; provided, however, that an animal care facility may, under that license, groom cats or dogs without a grooming facility license.
(b) No person shall engage in the business of temporary animal exhibition without first having obtained a permit to do so under Section 7-12-185.
(c) For purposes of this section, the terms "permanent" and "temporary" shall have the meaning ascribed to those terms in the definition of "animal exhibition" as set forth in Section 4-384-010.
(Amend Coun. J. 4-16-97, p. 42588; Amend Coun. J. 7-26-06, p. 81829, § 2; Amend Coun. J. 2-7-07, p. 98109, § 3; Amend Coun. J. 5-9-12, p. 27485, § 149 ; Amend Coun. J. 6-6-12, p. 28356, § 1D; Amend Coun. J. 4-21-21, p. 29618, § 3)
Source: City of Chicago, Municipal Code of Chicago (American Legal Publishing, codelibrary.amlegal.com)URL: https://codelibrary.amlegal.com/codes/chicago/latest/chicago_il/0-0-0-2638565Fetched: 10/24/2026