Every person owning, keeping, or harboring any animal that has been attacked or bitten by any other animal known to be affected with or has symptoms of rabies, or which has bitten any person, or which has or is suspected to have contracted rabies, shall immediately notify the Chief of Police or the Health Officer, and upon the demand of either such officer, shall immediately produce or surrender such animal for observation while impounded for a period of ten days; provided, however, that in the discretion of either such officer, such animal may be quarantined for a like period of time on the premises of the owner or person who is keeping or harboring such animal. If at the end of such ten-day period such animal has not developed rabies, it shall be released from impounding or quarantine; if the animal has developed rabies within such period of time, it shall be destroyed.
(2011 Code, § 6.04.060) (Ord. 131, passed - -1986) Penalty, see § 10.99