(510 ILCS 5/16) (from Ch. 8, par. 366)
Sec. 16. Animal attacks or injuries.
If a dog or other animal, without provocation, attacks, attempts to attack, or injures any
person who is peaceably conducting himself or herself in any place where he or she may
lawfully be, the owner of such dog or other animal is liable in civil damages to
such person for the full amount of the injury proximately caused thereby.
(Source: P.A. 94-819, eff. 5-31-06.)
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