1. When the City receives information that any person has been bitten by an animal or that a dog or animal is suspected or having rabies, a police officer shall order the owner to deliver such animal to a veterinarian in the County for examination within twenty-four hours.
2. If the animal has been vaccinated in the manner required by this Code of Ordinances, the owner may, after the animal has been examined by a veterinarian, confine the animal at his or her place of residence. If this is not possible, the animal must be confined at a veterinary hospital. In either case, the animal must be confined for a period of fourteen (14) days.
3. If the animal is confined by the owner, the same veterinarian who examined the animal at commencement of confinement, or a veterinarian designated by the original veterinarian, must re-examine the animal and issue a written release before the owner may end such confinement.
4. If the owner fails to confine the animal as ordered, the animal shall be apprehended and impounded by the City, and after two weeks, the City may humanely destroy the animal. If the animal is returned to its owner, the owner shall pay the costs of impoundment.
5. If the animal has not been vaccinated in the manner required by this Code of Ordinances, the animal shall be confined at a veterinary hospital for fourteen (14) days or be immediately humanely destroyed and the brain transported to a qualified laboratory for examination.
6. The veterinarian examining such animal shall report his or her findings to the Dubuque County Board of Health, to the City and to the physician attending the victim within twenty-four hours of the final examination. Said reports should be made immediately by telephone or in person and verified in writing at the earliest opportunity.
7. The owner of any animal reasonably subjected to the foregoing procedures shall pay all expenses resulting from such apprehension, confinement, examination and/or destruction.