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§ 90.059 REDEMPTION BY PERSON OTHER THAN OWNER.
   If the owner of any dog or cat impounded under this subchapter shall fail to redeem such dog or cat within 120 hours after such impoundment, the city’s liability for such dog or cat shall cease. Any other person may upon complying with the provisions of this subchapter, redeem such dog or cat from the shelter and be the lawful owner of such dog or cat thereafter.
(Prior Code, § 5-80) (Ord. 785, passed 11-6-1995)
§ 90.060 DISPOSITION OF UNREDEEMED DOGS AND CATS.
   All dogs and cats impounded under this subchapter and which have not been redeemed or purchased as authorized by this subchapter within 120 hours of such impoundment may be adopted by any person or disposed of in a humane manner by any police officer or animal control officer of the city or by any veterinarian.
(Prior Code, § 5-81) (Ord. 785, passed 11-6-1995)
RABIES CONTROL
§ 90.075 REPORT OF BITES.
   (A)   Every person having knowledge that an animal has bitten or is suspected of biting a human being, shall forthwith report the same to the animal control officer for disposition of such animal under the provisions of this subchapter. Every person bitten by an animal shall promptly report it to the animal control officer.
   (B)   The animal shall thereupon be securely quarantined at the discretion of the animal control officer for a period of not less than ten days.
(Prior Code, § 5-101)
§ 90.076 QUARANTINE OF ANIMAL.
   (A)   The animal ordered to be quarantined shall not be released from such quarantine except by written permission of the animal control officer. Such quarantine may be at the city’s animal shelter or at the owner’s option, in a veterinary hospital of his or her choice located in the city. The expenses of quarantine shall be paid by the owner. In the case of stray animals or in the cases of animals whose ownership is not known, such quarantine shall be at the shelter designated as the city’s animal shelter.
   (B)   The owner, upon demand made by the animal control officer shall forthwith place in the custody of a licensed veterinarian, any animal which has bitten a human, or which is suspected as having been exposed to rabies, for supervised quarantine. The expense of such quarantine shall be borne by the owner. The animal may be reclaimed by the owner if found to be free of rabies.
(Prior Code, § 5-102)
§ 90.077 DIAGNOSES.
   When an animal under quarantine has been diagnosed as being rabid or suspected by a licensed veterinarian as being rabid and dies while under such observation, the animal control officer shall immediately send the head of such animal to a competent laboratory for pathological examination. The animal control officer shall notify the proper public health officers of reports of human contacts with such animal and the diagnosis made on the animal.
(Prior Code, § 5-103)
§ 90.078 AREA QUARANTINE.
   (A)   When one or both reports give a positive diagnosis of rabies, the animal control officer may recommend the animal be area quarantined for a period of 30 days. Upon the invocation of such quarantine, no animal shall be taken into such area during such period of quarantine.
   (B)   Every unvaccinated animal bitten by an animal showing positive symptoms of rabies shall be forthwith destroyed or shall be held under quarantine not less than six weeks at the owner’s option and expense.
(Prior Code, § 5-104)
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