Red Bluff Municipal Code Art. III Rabies Control

It is unlawful for any person to own, harbor, control or keep any dog, dead or alive, within the city suspected of rabies without reporting the suspicion to the Health Officer and submitting the dog to the examination of the Health Officer or his or her representative. It shall be the duty of the Health Officer, when called upon, to examine or have examined the dog if it is suspected of having rabies.

(`61 Code, § 4.45) (Ord. 703, passed 10-19-1982)

Dogs suspected of having rabies shall not be killed, but shall be kept in confinement until the Health Officer or his or her representative shall find that further observation of the live animal is not necessary for the determination of the presence or absence of rabies. After the permission of the Health Officer has been secured, dogs afflicted with rabies may be killed.

(`61 Code, § 4.46) (Ord. 703, passed 10-19-1982)

Whenever it is shown that any dog has bitten any person, the owner or person harboring, controlling or keeping the dog shall, upon the order of the Health Officer, deliver the dog to the Poundkeeper, who shall quarantine it and keep it tied up or confined for a period of up to ten days and the Health Officer may make an examination or inspection thereof at any time during the period. If it shall appear to the Health Officer upon examination as aforesaid or otherwise, that a dog has rabies, he or she shall forthwith kill or cause the dog to be killed.

(`61 Code, § 4.47) (Ord. 703, passed 10-19-1982)

Whenever any animal shall be bitten by another animal having rabies, the owner or person harboring, controlling or keeping the animal so bitten shall, upon being informed thereof, either kill the animal or quarantine it and keep it tied up or confined for a period of six months. The Health Officer shall have the power, in his or her discretion, to kill or quarantine the animal so bitten, in case the owner or person harboring, controlling or keeping the animal is not readily accessible.

(`61 Code, § 4.48) (Ord. 703, passed 10-19-1982)

It is unlawful for any person to bring a dog into the city from any area in which rabies have been known to exist within six months previously, except upon the written permission of the Health Officer. The permission is to be granted only upon the condition that the dog, whenever in the city during a period of six months from and after the permission, will be confined and muzzled.

(`61 Code, § 4.49) (Ord. 703, passed 10-19-1982)

During the existence of rabies, or any case of rabies within the city or if the existence be suspected, the Health Officer is empowered to order all dogs in the city to be muzzled and it shall be unlawful for any person to disobey the order. Notice of the order may be given by publication for one time within a newspaper of general circulation, printed and published and circulated within the city.

(`61 Code, § 4.50) (Ord. 703, passed 10-19-1982)