(A) When reports indicate a positive diagnosis of rabies, the County Director of Public Health may order an area-wide quarantine for the period as he or she deems necessary. Upon invoking of the emergency quarantine, no dog, cat or other carnivore shall be taken into the streets or permitted to be in the streets during the period unless leashed. During the quarantine, no dog, cat or other carnivore may be taken or shipped from the county without written permission of the Animal Control Officer. Law enforcement is directed during the emergency to impound any dog, cat or other carnivore found running at large in the county. During the quarantine period, the Animal Control Officer or the local health authorities shall be empowered to provide for a program of mass immunization by the establishment of temporary emergency rabies vaccination facilities strategically located throughout the county.
(B) In the event there are additional positive cases of rabies occurring during the period of quarantine, the period of quarantine may be extended at the discretion of the County Director of Public Health.
(Prior Code, § 1.25) (Am. Ord. passed 3-11-2021) Penalty, see § 93.99