(A) Any healthy dog apprehended or impounded for being at large may be redeemed by the owner or others as authorized in § 90.35 within five days of such apprehension upon a showing that the dog had a current license tag and rabies vaccination tag, and by payment of the following fees to the Clerk-Treasurer:
(1) If the dog has been apprehended by an agent of the city and redeemed by owner, a sum of $25 will be charged.
(2) $15 per day for room and board for each day or fraction thereof during which the dog was impounded.
(B) Any dog impounded, for any reason, who appears to any duly licensed veterinarian to have any infectious or contagious disease, other than rabies, may be destroyed.
(C) Any dog apprehended and impounded for having bitten a person, being suspected of having bitten a person, or appearing to have rabies, shall not be redeemed by the owner within five days, but shall be kept under observation in the pound for 15 days or such additional time as may be required by state or county officials, unless such dog shall sooner die. At the expiration of the 15-day period, the dog may be redeemed by the owner or other person as provided in § 90.35 including a showing that the dog has a current license tag, rabies vaccination tag, and by payment of all fees as set forth in (A) above.
(D) The County Health Board shall determine methods of vaccination and satisfactory periods.
(E) Except to prevent further injury or death or unless the dog is diseased or seriously injured, no person shall kill a dog that has bitten a person until a quarantine of 15 days, or such other length of time as the Miami County Board of Health determines is necessary to observe the dog, has been completed. When an observable quarantine period cannot be completed because the dog has been killed, the body of that dog shall be impounded and the Board of Health notified immediately. The Board shall use the body to perform tests for rabies and other diseases.
(F) When a quarantine of dogs has been declared in the city, or part thereof, the city Animal Control Officer and all other persons having the authority of police officers shall assist the health authorities in enforcing the quarantine order. The County Board of Health shall be responsible for the quarantine of individual dogs.
(Ord. 12-1972, passed 3-6-72; Am. Ord. 7-1977, passed 3-7-77; Am. Ord. 13-1984, passed 4-2-84; Am. Ord. 40-1989, passed 11-6-89; Am. Ord. 8, 2011, passed 3-7-11; Am. Ord. 20, 2012, passed 9-4-12)