(a) Whenever any animal bites any person, the Mayor may order such animal quarantined for a period extending not longer than ten days from the time of the biting. No owner or person in custody or possession of such animal shall fail to comply with such quarantine order. All expenses incurred for the keeping of such animal or the necessary tests to determine whether rabies exists shall be borne exclusively by the owner or keep of such animal. No person, having knowledge of the existence of any rabies or the fact that any animal has bitten any other person, shall fail to immediately report such information to the Mayor.
(Ord. 2272. Passed 12-17-73.)
(b) No person shall violate a rabies quarantine order issued under Ohio R.C. 955.26.
(ORC 955.39)
(c) Whoever violates division (b) of this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor for a first offense; for each subsequent offense such person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree.
(ORC 955.99(C))