(A)
When reports indicate a cluster of positive rabies cases, the local health director or designee may order an area-wide emergency quarantine for the period as he or she deems necessary. Upon invoking an emergency quarantine, no dog, cat, ferret or other carnivores shall be taken into the streets or permitted to be in the streets during the emergency quarantine period. During the emergency quarantine, no dog, cat or ferret or other carnivore may be taken or shipped from the county without written permission of the Animal Control Section, and the municipal police departments located within Wake County, and the Wake County Sheriff’s Office, are hereby directed during the emergency quarantine to impound any dog, cat, ferret or other carnivore found running at large in the county. During the quarantine period, the Animal Control Section or local health authorities shall provide for a section of mass immunization by the establishment of temporary emergency rabies vaccination facilities located throughout the county.
(B) In the event there are additional positive cases of rabies occurring during the period of quarantine, the period of quarantine may be extended at the discretion of the local health director or designee.
(Ord. passed 5-3-2004; Ord. passed - - )