(A) Report of bite. Any officer, upon receiving notification from the owner, victim, physician, veterinarian, or other complainant that an animal is involved in a bite incident, shall order the capture and quarantining of said animal causing the bite.
(B) Quarantine or destruction of animal. Dogs or cats which bite persons shall be placed under quarantine for ten days. However, clinically ill or stray dogs or cats shall be destroyed immediately for rabies testing.
(C) Immediate destruction. Immediate destruction of a clinically normal, owned biting dog or cat, for rabies examination, shall be done only following consultation with a veterinarian, the owner, and the appropriate officials.
(D) Destruction; submission for testing. Any wild or other animal which bites or is suspected of biting a person or other animal shall be destroyed immediately and submitted for rabies testing.
(E) Owner’s responsibilities.
(1) Immediate confinement. Every animal that bites a human or other animal, has rabies, or is under suspicion of having rabies shall be immediately confined by the owner or person having custody of the animal.
(2) Notice of location. The city or a law enforcement officer must be immediately notified of the location of the animal.
(3) Contact with other animals, people. The owner or person having custody shall not permit such animal to come in contact with any other animal or person.
(4) Surrender possession. The owner or person having custody must surrender possession of such animal to the city on demand for supervised quarantine and/or rabies verification.
(5) Supervised quarantine. Supervised quarantine shall be in a veterinary hospital, other facility approved by the city, or by any other method of adequate confinement approved by the appropriate officer.
(F) Quarantine reports; release. The quarantine period shall be for not less than ten days immediately following the bite, and shall be under the supervision of a veterinarian who shall submit to the city written reports as to the animal’s health on the initial day of observation and on the fifth and tenth day immediately following the date of said bite incident. A release from quarantine may be issued if no signs of rabies have been observed during the quarantine period.
(G) Notice to city. The owner or person having custody shall immediately notify the city as to veterinarian supervising the quarantine.
(H) Violation of quarantine. Violation of quarantine by any person shall be just cause for seizure and impoundment of the quarantined animal by the city.
(I) Veterinarian to direct disposition. Any veterinarian shall direct the disposition of any animal found to be or suspected of being rabid.
(J) Carcasses. The carcass of any dead animal exposed to rabies shall be immediately surrendered to the city.
(K) Investigation by city. All animal bites reported shall be investigated by personnel of the city.
(2015 Code, § 4-3B-7-4)