When any owner of an animal has been notified that the animal has, or is suspected to have, bitten or attacked any person, he or she must within 24 hours place the animal under the care and observation of the city or a licensed veterinarian for a period of not less than ten days except in those cases when an animal has bitten or attacked while on the premises of the owner and the owner has a current rabies vaccination for the animal, in which case, the city may, if it feels the facilities are adequate and if the owner is a responsible person, quarantine the animal on the owner's premises. In this case the owner must sign a statement and understand the responsibility and assume the liability that is involved with the quarantine of an animal that has bitten. The quarantined animal must at all times be available for inspection during the quarantine. At the end of the ten days' observation period, the animal shall be examined by the city and, if cleared, may be reclaimed by the owner and the owner must pay the expense incurred incident thereto. Any animal impounded or placed for observation, showing active signs of rabies, suspected or having rabies or known to have been exposed to rabies, shall be confined under competent observation for the time as may be deemed necessary to determine a diagnosis. Any animal that has bitten or attacked that cannot be captured may be destroyed in a manner that the head is not damaged and can be submitted for a rabies examination to a laboratory.
(Prior Code, § 10.11, Subd. 10)