(a) “Contact” means any susceptible animal that directly or indirectly has come in contact with a rabid, or suspected rabid animal.
(b) “Dangerous animal” means any animal which in the opinion of the Health Commissioner represents a danger to the health, welfare and safety of the public as measured by infectious disease status, viciousness, poisonous status, capability of rendering bodily harm and property damage and manner of confinement and/or restraint.
(c) “Exotic animal” means other wild animals not indigenous to Ohio.
(d) “Feral” means any susceptible domestic animal living in the wild state.
(e) “Health Commissioner” means the Health Commissioner of the City of Grandview Heights Board of Health or his authorized representative.
(f) “Human exposure” means all persons having been bitten by or having contact with a susceptible animal.
(g) “Immunization” means the administration of a biological product recommended in the U.S. Public Health Service Center for Disease Control Animal Rabies Vaccine Compendium and licensed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and deemed adequate to provide protection to the animal so vaccinated rabies.
(h) “Isolation” means the placing of a rabid animal or suspected rabid animal or a contact separate and apart from all other susceptible animals or persons so that the transmission of rabies is impossible.
(i) “Person” means person, firm, corporation or association.
(j) “Pocket pets” means small pets such as hamsters, gerbils, guinea pigs, domestic rabbits, white rats, mice, etc.
(k) “Prohibited animals” means any poisonous insects, amphibious, or reptiles, including those whose fangs or poison sacs have been removed or neutralized.
(l) “Quarantine” is the limitation of freedom of movement of rabid or suspected rabid animals or contact for a period of time equal to the longest usual incubation period of the disease, in such manner as to prevent the spread of the rabies virus. Quarantine includes:
(1) The isolation of the animal.
(2) The control of contacts.
(m) “Rabid animal” means any animal showing observable clinical signs of rabies or which has been confirmed as having rabies by a laboratory acceptable to the Health Commissioner.
(n) “Stray” means any susceptible animal whose owner cannot be determined or one that cannot be apprehended and isolated for observation.
(o) “Susceptible animal” means any animal to which rabies can be transmitted.
(p) “Suspected rabid animal” means a susceptible animal showing, to a limited degree, observable clinical signs of rabies or a susceptible animal that has bitten a person or has come in contact with a person in such manner that rabies could be transmitted to that person.
(q) “Veterinarian” means a veterinarian duly licensed under the laws of the State of Ohio.
(r) “Wild animal” means any warm blooded non-domestic animal which is indigenous to the State of Ohio and capable of transmitting rabies.
(Res. 07-94. Passed 4-21-94.)