If any animals shall die in the possession of any person in the municipality, it shall be the duty of such person to cause the same to be at once removed without the limits of the municipality and buried or otherwise disposed of. Such burial or disposition shall be at a place prescribed by and under the direction of the Board of Health. In case the owner or person having charge of any such animal shall neglect or refuse to remove such dead animal within ten hours after its death, then and in that event the Board of Health shall provide for the removal of the dead animal, at the expense of such owner or person having charge of the same, such expenditure to be recovered in a civil action. Whenever the owner or other person having charge of any dead animals cannot be found, it shall be the duty of the Board of Health to cause such animal to be removed and buried at the expense of the municipality.
(1999 Code, § 6-213)