(A) When reports indicate a positive diagnosis of rabies, the Health Director may order an area-wide quarantine for such period as he/she deems necessary. Upon invoking of such emergency quarantine, no dog, cat or other carnivores shall be taken into the streets or permitted to be in the streets during such period. During such quarantine, no dog or cat or other carnivore may be taken or shipped from the county without written permission of the Animal Control Section, and the police and sheriff's departments are hereby directed during such emergency, to impound any dog, cat or other carnivore found running at large in the county. During the quarantine period, the Animal Control Section or local health authorities shall provide for a section of mass immunization by the establishment of temporary emergency rabies vaccination facilities located throughout the county.
(B) In the event there are additional positive cases of rabies occurring during the period of quarantine, such period of quarantine may be extended at the discretion of the Health Director.
(Ord. passed 1-21-20)