Siskiyou County Municipal Code Art. 4 Duties of Health Officer

The Health Officer, or Animal Control Officer, shall maintain public office hours necessary to efficiently administer the applicable provisions of this chapter, and amendments thereto, and shall perform the following duties:

(a) Organize and hold low cost rabies vaccination clinics on an annual basis at convenient sites in the County. Site locations shall be selected by the Health Officer or Animal Control Officer;

(b) Receive completed copies of animal bite reports;

(c) Maintain records and statistics regarding all animal bites involving humans;

(d) Notify victims of results of the quarantine of a biting animal;

(e) Collect and/or receive all samples of animals at his discretion, which are suspected to have died of rabies;

(f) Send samples at his discretion of suspected rabid animals to the Department of Public Health Laboratories of the State for analysis;

(g) Notify bite victims and/or appropriate physicians of the results of laboratory analyses;

(h) Carry out a rabies education program;

(i) Retain the prime responsibility for the administration of the provisions of this chapter and render consultations to appropriate departments as necessary to carry out the effectiveness and intent of the provisions of this chapter; and

(j) Establish appropriate regulations necessary to effectively administer the provisions of this chapter.

(§ I, Ord. 07-05, eff. February 15, 2007)