Chapter 7.15
INCIDENCE OF RABIES

Sections:

7.15.010    Handling requirements.

7.15.020    Area-wide quarantine.

7.15.010 Handling requirements.

A.    The city community service officer, under the direction of the city manager, shall cooperate with other agencies in establishing a rabies control program for the city.

B.    All persons shall report to a community service officer or agent any suspected or positively diagnosed occurrence of rabies as soon as such occurrence becomes known to the person.

C.    No person may kill any suspected or confirmed rabid animal or an animal subject to quarantine except to defend a human being from death or bodily injury, unless otherwise provided in this title.

D.    Any loose animal suspected of rabies, running at large uncontrolled and evading attempts to be caught shall be shot by a community service officer or agent and the head sent to the appropriate laboratory for examination of rabies disease.

E.    Only a community service officer or agent may remove the carcass of any suspected or confirmed rabid animal from the location where the animal was killed or found.

F.    The carcass of an animal suspected of being rabid shall upon demand be surrendered to a community service officer or agent or to the Department of Health and Social Services. (Ord. 03-06 § 1 (part), 2003.)

7.15.020 Area-wide quarantine.

A.    When there has been a positive diagnosis of rabies within the city, the city manager or the city manager’s designee may declare an area-wide quarantine for such period of time as determined necessary and there shall be no animals transported, taken, or removed from the city without the prior written consent of the city manager.

B.    Except as otherwise provided in this section, every owner or keeper shall confine his or her animal in accordance with Section 7.14.020 and the standards set forth in 7 AAC 27.020(a) and 7 AAC 27.030. (Ord. 03-06 § 1 (part), 2003.)