A. When an animal under quarantine has been diagnosed as being rabid, or suspected by a licensed veterinarian as being rabid, and dies while under such observation, the animal control officer or veterinarian shall immediately send the head of such animal to the state health department for pathological examination, and shall notify the proper public health officer of reports of human contacts and diagnosis made of the suspected animal.
B. When one or both reports give a positive diagnosis of rabies, the health or animal control officer of the town may recommend a townwide quarantine for a period of six (6) months; and upon the invoking of such quarantine, no animal shall be taken into the streets or permitted to be in the streets during such period of quarantine. During such quarantine, no animal shall be taken or shipped from the town without written permission of the animal control officer of the town.
C. During such period of rabies quarantine as herein designated, every animal bitten by an animal adjudged to be rabid shall be treated for such rabies infection by a licensed veterinarian, or held under six (6) months' quarantine by the owner in the same manner as other animals are quarantined.
D. In the event there are additional positive cases of rabies occurring during the period of quarantine, such period of quarantine may be extended for an additional six (6) months. (1998 Code)
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