(A) The rabies control authority shall investigate each report of a case having animal rabies or suspected case considered to have animal rabies to confirm the diagnosis, to identify the source of infection, to identify any human or animal contacts, to order the disposition of rabid or suspected rabid animals and to make recommendations for post exposure rabies prophylaxis.
(B) The rabies control authority may enter private property for the purpose of seizing an animal that has bitten a person, to determine if any animal kept or harbored therein has rabies or has been exposed to rabies, or to implement orders for quarantine, confinement, confiscation or euthanasia of an animal.
(C) Unless authorized by the rabies control authority, a person shall not destroy or allow to be destroyed the head of a rabies susceptible animal which has bitten a person. (Ord. 173, 4-14-1993)