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62 <br /> <br />quarantine with the written permission of the Animal Control <br />Department. If the dog or cat has been confined in the county animal <br />shelter, the owner shall pay a fee determined by resolution of the <br />Board of County Commissioners for each day of confinement to defray <br />the cost available for public inspection in the office of the Clerk to <br />the Board of County Commissioners and Cabarrus County Animal Shelter. <br />In the case of any carnivore or bat, the animal may be euthanized and <br />the head examined for rabies. <br /> <br />Section 6. Destruction or confinement of animal bitten by rabid animal. <br /> <br />(A) <br /> <br />If an animal has a current rabies inoculation and is bitten by a known <br />rabid animal, the animal bitten shall be revaccinated and returned to <br />the owner. <br />If an animal does not have a current rabies inoculation and is bitten <br />by a known rabid animal, the owner of the bitten animal must strictly <br />isolate the bitten animal in an animal shelter, boarding kennel, or at <br />a veterinary hospital for a period of six (6) months or the animal <br />will be immediately destroyed. <br /> <br />Section 7. <br /> <br /> Area-wide emergency quarantine. <br />(A) When reports indicate a positive diagnosis of rabies, the County <br /> Director of Public Health may order an area-wide quarantine for such <br /> period as he deems necessary. Upon invoking of such emergency <br /> quarantine, no dog, cat, or other carnivore shall be taken into the <br /> streets or permitted to be in the streets during such period. During <br /> such quarantine, no dog, cat, or other carnivore may be taken or <br /> shipped from the county without written permission of the Animal <br /> Control Department and the police and sheriff's departments and the <br /> police and sheriff's department are hereby directed during such <br /> emergency, to impound any dog, cat, or other carnivore found running <br /> at large in the county. During the quarantine period, the Animal <br /> Control Department or the local health authorities shall be empowered <br /> to provide for a program of mass immunization by the establishment of <br /> temporary emergency rabies vaccination facilities strategically <br /> located throughout the county. <br />(B) In the event there are additional positive cases of rabies occurring <br /> during the period of quarantine, such period of quarantine may be <br /> extended at the discretion of the County Director of Public Health. <br /> <br />Section 8. <br /> <br /><A> <br /> <br />(B) <br /> <br />Postmortem diagnosis, <br />If an animal dies while under observation for rabies, the head of such <br />animal shall be immediately submitted to the County Health Department <br />for shipment to the Laboratory Section of the Department of <br />Environment, Health, and Natural Resources for rabies diagnosis. <br />The carcass of any animal suspected of dying of rabies shall be <br />surrendered to the Animal Control Department. The head of such animal <br />shall be immediately submitted to the County Health Department for <br />shipment to the Laboratory Section of the Department of Environment, <br />Health, and Natural Resources for rabies diagnosis. <br /> <br />Section 9. Unlawful killing, releasins, etc., of certain animals. <br /> <br />It shall be unlawful for any person to kill or release any animal under observation <br />for rabies, any animal suspected of having been exposed to rabies, or any animal <br />biting a human, or to remove such animal from the county without written permission <br />from the Animal Control Department and the County Director 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 animal for <br />quarantine or destruction as required in this article, when demand is made <br />therefore by the Animal Control Department <br /> <br />ARTICLE III <br />IMPOUNDMENT <br /> <br />Section 1. Generally. <br />Any dog which appears to be lost, stray, and which is found to be not wearing a <br />currently valid rabies vaccination tag, as required by state law or this ordinance, <br />and not under restraint in violation of this ordinance, shall be impounded by the <br /> <br /> <br />
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