No person shall fail or refuse to surrender any animal for quarantine
or destruction as required in this chapter when demand is made therefor
by the Animal Control Officer.
It shall be the duty of every licensed veterinarian to report
to the Animal Control Officer any animal considered by him/her to
be a rabies suspect.
When rabies has been diagnosed in an animal under quarantine,
or when rabies is suspected in such an animal by a licensed veterinarian,
and the animal dies while under such observation, the Animal Control
Officer shall immediately send the head of such animal to the State
Department of Health for pathological examination, and shall notify
the proper public health officials of reports of human contacts and
the diagnosis.
The carcass of any dead animal exposed to rabies shall, upon
demand, be surrendered to the Animal Control Officer.
No person shall kill or cause to be killed any rabid animal,
any animal suspected of having been exposed to rabies, or any animal
biting a human, except as provided in this article, nor remove such
an animal from the Town limits without written permission from the
Animal Control Officer.
The Animal Control Officer shall direct the disposition of any
animal found to be infected with rabies.
Any dog, cat or domestic animal that is bitten by a known rabid
animal shall be immediately destroyed or, if the owner is unwilling
to destroy the dog, it shall be quarantined in a state-approved kennel/facility/pound
for six months. If such dog, cat or domestic animal has previously
been vaccinated within the time limits established by the State Director
of Health based on the kind of vaccine used, revaccination and restraint
by leashing and strict confinement for 45 days shall be carried out
in lieu of the six-month quarantine.