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Any domestic animal which has bitten any person or caused an abrasion of the skin of any person shall be subjected to post-incident management as provided in rules and regulations adopted and promulgated by the Department.
(Neb. RS 71-4406) Penalty, see § 93.99
Domestic or hybrid animals or livestock known to have been exposed to a confirmed or suspected rabid animal shall be subjected to post-exposure management as provided in rules and regulations adopted and promulgated by the Department.
(Neb. RS 71-4407) Penalty, see § 93.99
(A) (1) The rabies control authority may authorize an animal pound or pounds or may enter into a cooperative agreement with a licensed veterinarian for the establishment and operation of a pound.
(2) Any dog or hybrid of the family Canidae found outside the owner’s premises whose owner does not possess a valid certificate of rabies vaccination and valid rabies vaccination tag for the dog or hybrid of the family Canidae shall be impounded. The rabies control authority may require the impoundment of domestic or hybrid animals other than dogs or hybrid of the family Canidae. All impounded domestic or hybrid animals shall be given proper care, treatment and maintenance. Each impounded domestic or hybrid animal shall be kept and maintained at the pound for a period of not less than 72 hours unless reclaimed earlier by the owner.
(3) Notice of impoundment of all animals, including any significant marks of identification, shall be posted at the pound as public notification of impoundment. Any unvaccinated domestic or hybrid animal may be reclaimed by its owner during the period of impoundment by payment of prescribed pound fees and by complying with the rabies vaccination requirement of this subchapter within 72 hours of release. Any vaccinated domestic or hybrid animal impounded because its owner has not presented a valid certificate of rabies vaccination and a valid rabies vaccination tag for the domestic or hybrid animal may be reclaimed by its owner by furnishing proof of rabies vaccination and payment of all impoundment fees prior to release.
(4) At the expiration of impoundment a domestic or hybrid animal may be claimed by payment of established pound fees and by compliance with the rabies vaccination requirement of this subchapter within 72 hours of release. If the domestic or hybrid animal is unclaimed at the end of five days, the authorities may dispose of the domestic or hybrid animal in accordance with applicable laws or rules and regulations.
(Neb. RS 71-4408)
(B) Impoundment fees shall be paid by the owner. Fees for impoundment at public facilities shall be established by the rabies control authority.
(Neb. RS 71-4411)
Whenever in its opinion the danger to the public safety from a species of rabid animals is great or imminent, the Board of Trustees shall issue a proclamation ordering all owners of any such species to muzzle the animal or to confine it for a period of not less than 30 days or more than 90 days from the date of the proclamation or until the danger is passed. The animal may be harbored by any good and sufficient means in a house, garage or yard on the premises on which the owner may reside. Upon issuance of a proclamation, all owners of any such species shall muzzle or confine the animal as provided in this section.
Penalty, see § 93.99
(Neb. RS 71-4410)
(B) In the village, all ordinances, codes or rules and regulations concerning the control of rabies or the vaccination of domestic or hybrid animals against rabies shall be enforced by the village health and law enforcement officials or those other officers with regulatory authority as specified by the Board of Trustees.
(Neb. RS 71-4412)
DOGS
(A) Any owner of a dog over the age of six months within the village shall, within 30 days after acquisition of the dog, acquire a license for the dog annually by or before the May 1 of each year. Licenses shall be issued by the Village Clerk/Treasurer upon payment of a license tax in the amount established by the Board of Trustees, plus the $1.25 fee required under Neb. RS 54-603(3). It shall be unlawful for the owner of a dog to wrongfully and knowingly license an unspayed female dog as a male or spayed female dog if the Board has established different license taxes for such dogs.
(B) (1) The tax shall be delinquent from and after May 10.
(2) The owner of any dog brought into or harbored within the corporate limits subsequent to May 1 of any year shall be liable for payment of the dog tax and such tax shall be delinquent if not paid within ten days thereafter.
(3) The license shall not be transferable and no refund will be allowed in case of death, sale or other disposition of the licensed dog.
(C) The owner shall state, at the time the application is made and upon printed forms provided for such purpose, his or her name and address and the name, breed, color and sex of each dog owned by him or her. A certificate of rabies vaccination, effective for the ensuing year of the license, shall be presented when application for a license is made and no license or tag shall be issued until the certificate is shown.
(D) Every service animal shall be licensed as required by this section, but no license tax shall be charged. Upon the retirement or discontinuance of the animal as a service animal, the owner of the animal shall be liable for the payment of the required license tax.
(Neb. RS 54-603)
(E) (1) Upon the payment of the license tax, the Clerk/Treasurer shall issue to the owner of the dog a license certificate and a metallic tag, which shall be valid until April 30 following such licensing. The Clerk/Treasurer shall issue tags of a suitable design that are different in appearance each year.
(2) The metallic tag and the rabies tag shall be properly attached to the collar or harness of the dog. It shall be unlawful for the owner of any dog to permit or allow such dog to wear any licensing identification other than the metallic tag issued by the Clerk/Treasurer.
(3) If a license tag is lost, upon satisfactory evidence that the original tag was issued in accordance with the provisions of this section, the Clerk/Treasurer shall issue a duplicate or new tag for the balance of the year for which the license tax has been paid and shall charge and collect a fee established by the Board of Trustees for each duplicate or new tag so issued.
(F) All license taxes, fees and other collections shall be credited to the General Fund of the village, except as otherwise provided by Neb. RS 54-603.
Penalty, see § 93.99
Statutory reference:
Authority to impose license tax, require rabies certificate and destroy unlicensed dogs, see Neb. RS 17-526, 54-603 and 71-4412
(A) It shall be the duty of every owner of a dog to securely place upon the neck of the dog a good and sufficient collar with a metallic plate thereon. The plate shall be plainly inscribed with the name of the owner.
(Neb. RS 54-605)
(B) The owner of a dog may use a harness instead of a collar as long as the harness meets all other requirements of division (A) above.
Penalty, see § 93.99
It shall be unlawful for any person to remove or cause to be removed, the collar, harness, metallic license tag or rabies tag from any dog without the consent of the owner of the dog.
Penalty, see § 93.99
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