(A) When reports indicate a positive diagnosis of rabies, the county’s Health Director shall order an area-wide quarantine for a period as he or she deems necessary; and upon invoking of the emergency quarantine by the Health Director, no pet animal shall be taken into the streets or permitted to be in the streets during the period. During the quarantine, no animal may be taken or shipped from the county without written permission of the Health Director, and each member of the Animal Control Department, Police and Sheriff’s Department is hereby fully authorized, during such emergency, to impound any dog found running at-large in the county. During the quarantine period, the local health authorities shall be empowered to provide for a program of mass immunization by the establishment of temporary emergency rabies vaccination clinics strategically located throughout the county.
(B) No dog which has been impounded by reason of its being a stray, unclaimed by its owner, shall be allowed to be adopted from the animal shelter during the period of emergency rabies quarantine, except by special authorization of the Health Director.
(Prior Code, § 91.49) (Ord. passed 11-6-1978)