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(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)
No person shall kill or cause to be killed any rabid animal, or any animal biting a human, except as herein provided, or remove such animal from the city limits without written permission from the animal control officer. The carcass of any dead animal exposed to rabies shall, upon demand, be surrendered to the animal control officer. The animal control officer shall direct the disposition of any animal found to be infected with rabies. No person shall fail or refuse to surrender any animal quarantined or fail or refuse to destroy an animal as required herein when such demand is made by the animal control officer.
(Prior Code, § 5-106) Penalty, see § 90.999