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15 <br /> <br />boarding kennel, or at a veterinary hospital for a period of six <br />(6) months or the animal will be immediately destroyed. <br /> <br />Section 7. Area-wide emerqenc¥ quarantine. <br /> <br />(A) <br /> <br />When reports indicate a positive diagnosis of rabies, the County <br />Director of Public Health may order an area-wide quarantine for <br />such period as he deems necessary. Upon invoking of such <br />emergency quarantine, no dog, cat, or other carnivore shall be <br />taken into the streets or permitted to be in the streets during <br />such period. During such quarantine, no dog, cat, or other <br />carnivore may be taken or shipped from the county without written <br />permission of the Animal Control Department and the police and <br />sheriff's departments and the police and sheriff's department are <br />hereby directed during such emergency, to impound any dog, cat, or <br />other carnivore found running at large in the county. During the <br />quarantine period, the Animal Control Department or the local <br />health authorities shall be empowered to provide for a program of <br />mass immunization by the establishment of temporary emergency <br />rabies vaccination facilities strategically located throughout the <br />county. <br /> <br />(B) <br /> <br />In the event there are additional positive cases of rabies <br />occurring during the period of quarantine, such period of <br />quarantine may be extended at the discretion of the County <br />Director of Public Health. <br /> <br />Section 8. Postmortem diaqnosis, <br /> <br />(A} <br /> <br />If an animal dies while under observation for rabies, the head of <br />such animal shall be immediately submitted to the County Health <br />Department for shipment to the Laboratory Section of the <br />Department of Environment, Health, and Natural Resources for <br />rabies diagnosis. <br /> <br />(B) <br /> <br />The carcass of any animal suspected of dying of rabies shall be <br />surrendered to the Animal Control D~partment. The head of such <br />animal shall be immediately submitted to the County Health <br />Department for shipment to the Laboratory Section of the <br />Department of Environment, Health, and Natural Resources for <br />rabies diagnosis. <br /> <br />Section 9. Unlawful killinq, releasinq, etc., of certain animals. <br /> <br /> It shall be unlawful for any person to kill or release any animal under <br />observation for rabies, any animal suspected of having been exposed to rabies, <br />or any animal biting a human, or to remove such animal from the county without <br />written permission from the Animal Control Department and the County Director <br />of Public Health. <br /> <br />Section 10. Failure to surrender animal for quarantine or destruction. <br /> <br />It shall be unlawful for any person to fail or refuse to surrender any <br /> <br /> <br />