(A) Each owner or person in charge of any animal known to have or suspected of having rabies or any other communicable disease, or known to have been bitten by another animal having or suspected of having any such disease shall forthwith take such animal to a veterinarian for confinement and observation or securely confine such animal on his or her own premises, and in either case, notify the Health Officer of the county wherein his or her premises is located without delay, and he or she shall then obey the directives given him or her by the County Health Officer. Animals so confined shall be destroyed in a humane manner upon the finding of a veterinarian that they have rabies or some other incurable communicable disease, and no animal shall be released from such confinement until found by a veterinarian to be free of rabies and other communicable disease.
(B) Rabid animals found at large within the city shall be shot and killed forthwith by the Animal Warden or by any police officer.
(C) Any person having knowledge of an animal known to have or suspected of having rabies or any other communicable disease shall forthwith notify the Animal Warden or Chief of Police. If the owner or person in charge of such animal can be found without undue delay, he or she shall be notified by the Animal Warden or Chief of Police to comply with the provisions of division (A) above forthwith; otherwise, such animal shall be destroyed by shooting.
(Prior Code, § 505.12)