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(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 - - )
(A)
If an animal dies while under observation for rabies, the head of the animal shall be submitted to the State Laboratory of Public Health for rabies diagnosis.
(B) The carcass of any animal suspected of dying of rabies which came in contact with a person or other domestic animal capable of contracting rabies, shall be surrendered to the Animal Control Section. The head of the animal shall be submitted to the State Laboratory of Public Health for rabies diagnosis.
(Ord. passed 5-3-2004; Ord. passed - - )
It shall be unlawful for any person to kill or release any animal under observation for rabies, any animal suspected of having been exposed to rabies, or any animal biting a human, or to remove the animal from the county without permission from the Animal Control Section.
(Ord. passed 5-3-2004; Ord. passed - - )
Penalty, see § 91.99
It shall be unlawful for any person to fail or refuse to surrender any animal for quarantine or euthanasia as required in this subchapter or when the Animal Control Section makes demand.
(Ord. passed 5-3-2004; Ord. passed - - )
Penalty, see § 91.99
COMMUNITY CAT INITIATIVE
(A) Organizations or individuals that engage in Trap-Neuter-Return are encouraged to register through a sponsoring organization. Organizations performing or supporting Trap-Neuter-Return in Wake County shall identify and nominate a community cat sponsoring organization, which shall be recognized by the Wake County Environmental Services Director or his designee.
(B) The community cat sponsoring organization shall make available to the public information about Trap-Neuter-Return and feral cats, shall attempt to notify the appropriate community cat caregiver when notified by the Animal Services Division about an impounded eartipped cat, and shall provide a single point of contact to the Animal Services Division for the coordination of Trap-Neuter-Return, calls about at large cats, and calls about complaints related to community cats.
(C) Responsibilities of the community cat caregiver:
(1) Cats must be trapped using humane trapping techniques;
(2) Cats must be assessed by a veterinarian and deemed healthy at the time of spay/neuter surgery;
(3) Cats must be spayed or neutered;
(4) Cats must be vaccinated for rabies and FVRCP (Feline Viral Rhinotracheitis, Calicivirus, and Panleukopenia);
(5) Cats must be eartipped;
(6) Cat bites must be reported to Wake County Animal Control.
(D) Responsibilities of Wake County Animal Services Division.
(1) Persons that contact Wake County Animal Services about stray or community cats shall be provided information about Trap-Neuter-Return and referred to the community cat sponsoring organization.
(2) When a person contacts Wake County Animal Services with a complaint about an eartipped community cat, county staff will contact the community cat sponsoring organization for assistance in resolving the complaint.
(Ord. passed 6-4-2012)
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