(A) When either the Police Department or the Departments of Public Health and Sanitation or Public Safety of the City of Rockaway Beach has grounds to suspect that a dog is infected with the disease of rabies, there shall be delivered to the owner of the dog a written notice thereof. The owner shall thereupon be required to quarantine the dog for 10 days. The biting of any person by the dog shall constitute adequate grounds for suspecting the dog to be so infected. The delivery of the notice to a member of the owner's family 14 years of age or older at the premises where the dog is kept or at the owner's usual place of abode shall be considered a delivery of the notice to the owner. Any dog required to be quarantined shall be confined as follows:
(1) On the owner's premises in such a manner as to prevent it from being in contact with any other animal or person; and
(2) At the owner's expense in a veterinary hospital.
(B) Any animal that has been bitten by a dog or other animal proved to be rabid shall be destroyed.
(C) If a dog exhibits symptoms of rabies while it is under quarantine, the Director of Public Health may order in writing that it be destroyed and that its head be submitted to the Oregon State Public Health Laboratory.
(Prior Code, Ord. 230, passed 9-27-1983)