Section:
7.12.010 Animals suspected of rabies - Duty of custodian to report.
7.12.020 Animals suspected of rabies - Duty of health officer to examine.
7.12.030 Animals suspected of rabies - Disposition.
7.12.040 Quarantine of animal which has bitten person - Destruction of rabid animal.
7.12.050 Disposition of animal bitten by rabid animal.
7.12.060 Bringing animal into city from rabid area.
7.12.070 Authority to require muzzles when - Violation a misdemeanor.
7.12.080 Rabies vaccination.
It shall be unlawful for any person to fail to report any animal suspected of having rabies to the health officer and submit such animal to the examination of the health officer or a representative.
(Prior code § 3.19 (Ord. 224 §1200), Ord. 2268)
It shall be the duty of the health officer, when called upon, to examine, or have examined, any animal if it is suspected of having rabies, and to ascertain whether or not such animal is afflicted with rabies.
(Prior code § 3.20 (Ord. 224 §1200))
Animals suspected of having rabies shall not be destroyed, but shall be kept in confinement until the health officer or a designee shall find that further observation of the live animal is not necessary for the determination of the presence or absence of rabies. After the permission of the health officer has been secured, the animals afflicted with rabies may be destroyed. The person or officer capturing any such animal shall, if the owner thereof is known to such person or officer, notify such owner that such animal has been captured. If any animal is found not to be afflicted with rabies and is not reclaimed by the owner thereof or other person claiming the same within five days after capture, such animal shall be destroyed in some humane manner by the person capturing the same, or the officer to whom the animal was delivered.
(Prior code § 3.21 (Ord. 224 §1201), Ord. 2268)
Whenever it is shown that any animal has bitten any person, the owner or person having the custody or possession thereof shall, upon order of the animal control supervisor or the health officer, deliver such animal to the animal control supervisor or a licensed veterinarian who shall quarantine it and keep it tied up or confined for a period of two weeks. When the animal is delivered to a licensed veterinarian, the owner or person who delivers the animal shall be responsible for all of the costs of the confinement and care of the animal. The health officer may make an inspection or examination of any animal quarantined as herein provided for at any time. If it appears to the health officer, upon examination as aforesaid, or otherwise, that the animal has the rabies, the health officer shall have the animal destroyed forthwith.
(Prior code § 3.22 (Ord. 224 §1202, Ord. 1371 §9), Ord. 2268)
Whenever any animal is bitten by another animal having rabies, the owner or person having the custody or possession of the animal so bitten shall, upon being informed thereof, either destroy such animal or quarantine it and keep it tied up or confined for a period of six months. The health officer shall have power and discretion to destroy or quarantine the animal so bitten, in case the owner or person having custody or possession thereof shall fail to do so immediately or if the owner or person having custody thereof is not readily accessible.
(Prior code § 3.23 (Ord. 224 §1203), Ord. 2268)
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