(A) When an animal under quarantine has been diagnosed as being rabid, or suspected by a licensed veterinarian as being rabid, and dies while under such observation, the Animal Control Officer or veterinarian shall immediately send the head of such animal to the State Health Department for pathological examination and shall notify the proper public health officer of reports of human contacts and diagnosis made of the suspected animal.
(B) When a report shows a positive diagnosis of rabies, the Animal Control Officer of the city may recommend a city-wide quarantine for a period of six months, and upon the invoking of such quarantine, no animal shall be taken into the streets or permitted to be in the streets during such period of quarantine. During such quarantine, no animal shall be taken or shipped from the city without written permission of the Animal Control Officer of the city.
(C) During such period of rabies quarantine as herein designated, every animal bitten by an animal adjudged to be rabid shall be treated for such rabies infection by a licensed veterinarian and be held under six months quarantine by the owner in the same manner as other animals are quarantined.
(D) In the event there are additional positive cases of rabies occurring during the period of quarantine, such period of quarantine may be extended for an additional six months.
(E) The regulations of the State Department of Health, and all amendments thereto, relating to quarantine and rabies are adopted herein by reference.
(Prior Code, § 96.041)
Statutory reference:
State quarantine of animals, see 63 O.S. § 1-508