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DIVISION 105. COMMUNICABLE DISEASE PREVENTION AND CONTROL 120100-122477›PART 6. VETERINARY PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY 121575-122388›CHAPTER 1. Rabies Control 121575-121710

§ 121710

California Health and Safety Code · 2020-11 edition · updated 2026-10-04 · California

Any person who, after notice, violates any order of a local health officer concerning the isolation or quarantine of an animal of a species subject to rabies, that has bitten or otherwise exposed a person to rabies or who, after that order, fails to produce the animal upon demand of the local health officer, is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by imprisonment in the county jail for a period not to exceed one year, or by fine of not less than one hundred dollars ($100), nor more than one thousand dollars ($1,000) per day of violation, or by both fine and imprisonment.

(Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec. 7. Effective January 1, 1996.)

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