311.04 CONTROL OF COMMUNICABLE DISEASES IN ANIMALS.

   (a)   No person shall bring into the City, sell or offer for sale in the City any animal having a communicable disease, or which has been exposed to or which is liable to carry infection from a communicable disease.

   (b)   Every veterinarian or other person attending a case of communicable disease in any animal shall, within twelve (12) hours after the recognition of the disease, report the same to the Cuyahoga County Board of Health, giving the name of the owner and the owner's place of residence.

   (c)   Any person having knowledge of the existence of a case of communicable disease of any animal which has not been reported shall, within twelve (12) hours after the discovery of the existence of the communicable disease, report the same to the Cuyahoga County Board of Health.

   (d)   The City, upon obtaining information as to the existence of a communicable disease of any animal, shall, request that the Cuyahoga County Board of Health send an official or employee of the Cuyahoga County Board of Health to supervise the destruction, removal or isolation of the animal having such disease.

(Ord. 17-91. Enacted 11-13-17.)