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Section 5. Report and confinement of animals bitin~ persons or showin~ symptoms of rabies. 22 (~) Every dog or cat which has bitten any person or which shows symptoms of rabies shall be confined immediately and shall be promptly reported to the Animal Control Department, and thereupon shall be securely quarantined, at the direction of the Animal Control Department, for a period of ten (10) days, and shall not be released from such quarantine except by written permission from the Animal Control Department. (~) Dogs and cats quarantined under this section shall be confined in a veterinary hospital, boarding kennel, or county animal shelter, at the expense of the owner; provided, however, that if an animal control officer determines that the owner of an animal which must be quarantined has adequate confinement facilities upon his own premises, the animal control office shall authorize the animal to be confined on such premises. The animal control officer may not authorize the animal to be confined on the owner's premises unless the owner has a fenced-in area in his yard and the fenced-in area has no entrances or exists that are not locked, and the animal is currently vaccinated against rabies. If the animal is confined on the owner's premises, the animal control office shall revisit the premises for inspection purposes at approximately the middle of the confinement period and again at the conclusion of the confinement period. (c) In the case of stray dogs or cats whose ownership is not known, the dogs or cats may be euthanized and the head examined for rabies or kept for the supervised quarantine period required by this section at the county animal shelter. (D) If rabies does not develop within ten (10) days after a dog or cat is quarantined under this section, the dog or cat may be released from quarantine with the written permission of the Animal Control Department. If the dog or cat has been confined in the county animal shelter, the owner shall pay a fee determined by resolution of the Board of County Commissioners for each day of confinement to defray the cost available for public inspection in the office of the Clerk to the Board of County Commissioners and Cabarrus County Animal Shelter. (E) In the case of any carnivore or bat the animal may be euthanized and the head examined for rabies. Section 6. Destruction or confinement of animal bitten by rabid animal. (A) If an animal has a current rabies inoculation and is bitten by a known rabid animal, the animal bitten shall be revaccinated and returned to the owner. (B) If an animal does not have a current rabies inoculation and is bitten by a known rabid animal, the owner of the bitten animal must strictly isolate the bitten animal in an animal shelter, boarding kennel, or at a veterinary hospital for a period of six (6) months or the animal will be immediately destroyed.