§ 6-67. Authorization for citywide quarantine.

(a)

When the report indicates a positive diagnosis of rabies, the director of environmental health may order an area wide quarantine for a period of sixty (60) days, and upon the invoking of such quarantine, no animal shall be taken into the streets, or permitted to be in the streets during such period of quarantine. During such quarantine no animal may be taken or shipped from the city without written permission of the director of environmental health.

(b)

During the quarantine period, and as long afterward as he decides it is necessary to prevent the spread of rabies, the director of environmental health may require that all animals, three (3) months of age and older, shall be vaccinated against rabies. All vaccinated animals shall be restricted (leashing or confinement on enclosed premises) for thirty (30) days after vaccination. During the quarantine period, the director of environmental health is hereby empowered to provide for a program of mass immunization by the establishment of temporary emergency rabies vaccination clinics strategically located through the area of the health jurisdiction.

(Ord. No. 2254, 8-2-04)