{"id":16,"date":"2014-02-19T02:05:49","date_gmt":"2014-02-19T02:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morgancounty-il.com\/wp\/?page_id=16"},"modified":"2026-01-06T17:01:47","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T17:01:47","slug":"animal-control","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/morgancounty-il.com\/wp\/departments\/animal-control\/","title":{"rendered":"Animal Control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Should you have an emergency during non-business hours and you live within the City of Jacksonville, call the Jacksonville Police Department at 479-4630. If you live in any other area of the County, call the Morgan County Sheriffs Department at 243-6123.<\/p>\n<p>Effective January 1, 2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>Adoption Fees:<\/strong> Please call Animal Control for Adoption Fees &amp; Details.<\/p>\n<p>As of January 1, 2006, Illinois public act 094-0639 officially became a law. In addition to the pick up fee charged by Morgan County, the State of Illinois will impose an additional $30.00 pick up fee each time the dog or dogs are picked up.<\/p>\n<p>Contact Animal Control for Reclaim and\/or Boarding Fees.<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nClick to view the <a href=\"\/documents\/animal-control\/animal-control-ordinance-oct-2013.pdf\">Morgan County Animal Control Ordinance.<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Should you have an emergency during non-business hours and you live within the City of Jacksonville, call the Jacksonville Police Department at 479-4630. If you live in any other area of the County, call the Morgan County Sheriffs Department at 243-6123. Effective January 1, 2026 Adoption Fees: Please call Animal Control for Adoption [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":13,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-16","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgancounty-il.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgancounty-il.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgancounty-il.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgancounty-il.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgancounty-il.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/morgancounty-il.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5842,"href":"https:\/\/morgancounty-il.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16\/revisions\/5842"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgancounty-il.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgancounty-il.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}