This chapter shall in all respects be construed to supplement
and harmonize with the provisions of the laws of the State of California
pertaining to animal industry.
(Ord. 302 § 38, 2018)
The Orange County Veterinarian shall be appointed by the Orange
County Board of Supervisors in compliance with State and Federal laws.
(Ord. 302 § 38, 2018)
It shall be the duty of the County Veterinarian, acting in cooperation
with the State Veterinarian, to enforce all laws of the State of California,
the ordinances of the County of Orange and all orders of its Board
of Supervisors, and the ordinances of the City and all orders of the
City Council pertaining to the health and sanitary condition of animals
in said County. To this end he or she is authorized, upon approval
of the Board of Supervisors or City Council, to establish, maintain
and enforce such quarantine, sanitary, testing and immunizing measurers
and to promulgate such rules and regulations as he or she may deem
necessary and proper. He or she shall regulate the movement of animals
from stockyards and corrals; he or she shall supervise the examination
and testing of animals or premises for the presence of contagious,
infectious or communicable disease. He or she shall immediately report
any human infectious or communicable disease found in animals to the
Health Officer or his or her duly authorized deputy.
(Ord. 302 § 38, 2018)
When the County Veterinarian has determined that an infectious
disease exists among animals in any area and the importation of animals
from such area might spread such disease among the animals within
the City, he or she shall notify the City Council, designating and
describing the area where such disease has been found and shall, with
their approval, establish such quarantine restrictions as the circumstances
shall warrant. The County Veterinarian may refuse to permit shipments
of animals from such areas to the City unless accompanied by a certificate
signed by State or Federal veterinarian certifying that the animals
for which such certificate is issued are not infected with or exposed
to an infectious disease. Any animals entering the City from any area
so described and designated without such a certificate may be quarantined
by the County Veterinarian and confiscated or disposed of in such
manner as to eliminate any danger of the animals within the City being
exposed to infection from such disease.
(Ord. 302 § 38, 2018)
The County Veterinarian shall investigate all reports of the
presence of infectious diseases affecting animals within the City.
He or she is authorized to enter any premises where animals are kept,
or on which he or she has reason to believe that animals are kept,
in order to carry into effect the provisions of this chapter, and
it shall be unlawful for any person to interfere with the official
action of the County Veterinarian or his or her authorized deputy.
The County Veterinarian may quarantine any animal suspected of being
infected with or exposed to an infectious disease for a reasonable
period of observation and until such tests as may be required to ascertain
the presence or absence of an infectious disease are completed. Upon
discovery of any infectious disease affecting animals in the City,
the County Veterinarian shall establish such quarantine, sanitary,
testing, immunizing and control measures as may be necessary to control
or eradicate such disease and prevent the spread thereof to other
animals. The County Veterinarian may quarantine any animal upon the
land or premises where such diseased animal has been kept, and thereafter
it shall be unlawful for any person to break such quarantine or to
move or allow to be moved any such animals from within the premises
thus quarantined, or across the quarantine line so established, without
first obtaining permission from the County Veterinarian. If, after
inspection, the County Veterinarian shall deem it proper to issue
such a permit he or she may cause such animal, premises and vehicles
of transportation and any infected materials, equipment or effects
to be properly cleaned and disinfected.
(Ord. 302 § 38, 2018)
It is unlawful for any person, during the existence of such
quarantine, to remove, tear, deface, mutilate, obscure or otherwise
destroy or interfere with any placard, notice or proclamation declaring
such quarantine.
(Ord. 302 § 38, 2018)
It is unlawful for any person to bring into or receive into
the City any performing animals or horses or livestock known to be
affected with any contagious, infectious or communicable disease,
unless such animals are specifically permitted to enter the State
of California and the City under Federal or California State regulations,
and then only under the conditions and for the purpose prescribed
in the Federal and State regulations governing movement of livestock
or performing animals or horses.
(Ord. 302 § 38, 2018)
No person shall inject, or cause to be injected, tuberculin into any cattle or performing animals or horses except when used in connection with a tuberculin test, which shall have the meaning as provided in Section 10.04.010 of this Code.
(Ord. 302 § 38, 2018)
No person shall move any cattle or performing animals or horses
upon which a tuberculin test has been started until the same shall
have been completed without the permission of the veterinarian conducting
such test, nor shall any person in any way interfere with such tests.
(Ord. 302 § 38, 2018)
Whenever the County Veterinarian shall have cause to believe
that there is danger that cattle or performing animals or horses in
the City, or any cattle or performing animals or horses brought into
the City, are afflicted with tuberculosis, he or she shall cause such
cattle or performing animals or horses to be examined and tested for
tuberculosis.
(Ord. 302 § 38, 2018)
All cattle or performing animals or horses which are shown by
the tuberculin test to be afflicted with tuberculosis shall be immediately
marked for identification by branding the letter "T" on the left jaw.
The "T" shall be three inches in height from top to bottom and two
inches wide at the top and the branding edge shall be not less than
one-quarter (¼) of an inch in width. No animals so branded
shall be slaughtered or disposed of in any manner or removed from
the premises where located when branded unless permission is first
obtained from the County Veterinarian or from the Director of the
State Department of Agriculture.
(Ord. 302 § 38, 2018)
The owner or person in charge of livestock or performing animals
or horses shall properly confine in stanchions or chutes any livestock
or performing animals or horses which the County Veterinarian may
designate for examination, injection, vaccination, observation, administration
of tuberculin mallein or for other tests or purposes. If the owner
or person in charge refuses to properly confine such livestock or
performing animals or horses for examination, test or vaccination
as requested, the County Veterinarian may employ help and incur such
expense as is necessary to properly control such livestock or performing
animals or horses for the purpose mentioned. The expenses incurred
shall be a lien upon said livestock or performing animals or horses
and shall be recovered by action in the name of the County of Orange
unless paid within 10 days after written notice of the amount has
been given by the County Veterinarian to the owner or person in possession
of said livestock or performing animals or horses.
(Ord. 302 § 38, 2018)
Any person having knowledge of the presence of an infectious
disease in livestock or performing animals or horses shall report
same to the County Veterinarian. All persons owning or having control
of livestock or performing animals or horses shall assist the County
Veterinarian in enforcing the provisions of this title and shall obey
all orders of the County Veterinarian made for the control and eradication
of infectious disease, the sanitation of premises, destruction of
livestock or performing animals or horses and disposal of carcasses,
manure, offal and refuse.
(Ord. 302 § 38, 2018)
All animals including performing animals or horses brought into
the City in violation of any of the provisions of this title shall
be subject to quarantine, examination and test, at the expense of
the owner, by the County Veterinarian, who may dispose of such livestock
or performing animals or horses to protect the public health and health
of domestic animals of the City.
(Ord. 302 § 38, 2018)
