Poway Municipal Code Art. III Quarantines

When the County Veterinarian has determined that an infectious disease exists among livestock in any other City or areas of the State and the importation of livestock from such City or area might spread such disease among livestock within the City, the County Veterinarian shall notify the City Council thereof, designating and describing the City or area wherein such disease has been found and shall, with their approval, establish quarantine restrictions against such City or area as the circumstances warrant. The County Veterinarian may refuse to permit shipments of livestock originating in such areas to enter the City unless accompanied by a certificate signed by a State or Federal Veterinarian which shall satisfactorily prove that there is no possibility that the livestock for which such certificate is issued are infected with or exposed to an infectious disease. Any livestock entering the City from any City or area so described and designated without such certificate may be quarantined by the County Veterinarian in such manner as to eliminate any danger of the livestock within the City being exposed to infection from such disease.

(CC § 62.130; Ord. 29 § 1, 1981)

Upon information received by the County Veterinarian of any infectious disease affecting livestock within the City, the County Veterinarian shall proceed to thoroughly investigate the same. Upon discovery of any infectious disease affecting livestock in the City, the County Veterinarian shall have the power and duty to establish such quarantine, sanitary testing, immunizing, and police regulations as may be necessary to control or eradicate such disease and prevent the spread thereof to other livestock. The County Veterinarian may quarantine any livestock which may have been exposed to infection from such diseased livestock or which may have been located upon the land or premises where such diseased livestock has been kept, and thereafter it is unlawful for any person to break such quarantine or to move or allow to be moved any such livestock from within the premises thus quarantined, or across the quarantine line so established without first obtaining from the County Veterinarian a permit to do so. If the County Veterinarian shall deem it proper to issue such a permit after inspection, the County Veterinarian may cause such livestock, premises, vehicles of transportation, and any infected materials, equipment or effects to be properly cleaned and disinfected.

(CC § 62.131; Ord. 29 § 1, 1981)

It is unlawful for any person during the existence of such quarantine to remove, tear, deface, mutilate, obscure or otherwise destroy or in any other manner whatsoever interfere with any placard, notice, or proclamation declaring such quarantine which is placed on or about the premises on which any of said animals so quarantined are located.

(CC § 62.132; Ord. 29 § 1, 1981)

It is unlawful for any person to permit any livestock so quarantined to have access to any irrigation ditch, stream or other channel in which water is running or may run at any time through such quarantined premises, or to allow such livestock to come in contact with other livestock which may have access to any irrigation ditch, stream or other channel so mentioned, or to permit the depositing in such irrigation ditch, stream, or channel of any manure, offal, excrement, or material which might carry infection, or to allow the drainage from any premises so quarantined to come in contact with such irrigation ditch, stream or other channel aforementioned.

(CC § 62.133; Ord. 29 § 1, 1981)