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SEC. 53.62. ANIMALS; BURIAL OF.
 
   (a)   Except as otherwise provided in this section, no person in whose possession any animal or fowl dies shall fail or neglect to notify forthwith the Board of Public Works, at the refuse station maintained by said Board, of the presence of a dead animal or fowl, and the address where the carcass thereof may be found. (Amended by Ord. No. 143,146, Eff. 4/27/72.)
 
   (b)   No person shall bury any animal or fowl in the City except in an established cemetery. The death of any such animal or fowl which is to be buried in any such cemetery need not be reported to the Board of Public Works as in this section provided. (Amended by Ord. No. 127,508, Eff. 6/29/64.)
 
   (c)   The provisions of Subsections (a) and (b) of this section do not apply when the animal or animals that died were determined before or after their deaths to have had Exotic Newcastle Disease by one or more persons then engaged in a program instituted by the Animal and Plant Health Service of the United States Department of Agriculture to eradicate Exotic Newcastle Disease. (Amended by Ord. No. 143,378, Eff. 5/15/72.)