(A) (1) When either the dog control authority or the County Departments of Public Health and Sanitation or Public Safety has grounds to suspect that a dog or other animal is infected with the disease of rabies, there shall be delivered to the owner of the dog or other animal a written notice thereof.
(2) The owner shall thereupon be required to quarantine the dog or other animal for ten days.
(3) The biting of any person by the dog or other animal shall constitute adequate grounds for suspecting the dog or other animal to be so infected.
(4) The delivery of the notice to a member of the owner’s family 14 years of age or older at the premises where the dog or other animal is kept or at the owner’s usual place of abode, shall be considered a delivery of the notice to the owner. Any dog or other animal required to be quarantined shall be confined as follows:
(a) On the owner’s premises in such a manner as to prevent it from being in contact with any other animal or person; or
(b) At the owner’s expense in a veterinary hospital, the County Humane Society or a kennel approved by the dog control authority.
(B) Any animal that has been bitten by a dog or other animal proved to be rabid shall be destroyed.
(C) If a dog or other animal exhibits symptoms of rabies while it is under quarantine, the Director of Public Health may order in writing that it be destroyed and that its head be submitted to the State Public Health Laboratory.
(Prior Code, § 90.25) (Ord. 259, passed 5-8-1979)