8.04.360 - Health officer or chief animal control officer to have dog examined for rabies.

Officers or persons capturing dogs under the provisions of Sections 8.04.290 and 8.04.300 shall separately confine such dogs captured by them in some safe place, and shall report the capture to the health officer of the city or his deputies or the chief animal control officer or his deputies and shall submit such dog to the examination of the health officer of the city or his deputies, or the chief animal control officer, or his deputies, and it shall be the duty of the health officer or the chief animal control officer when called upon to examine or have examined such dog, and to ascertain whether or not such dog is infected with rabies. Dogs captured under said sections shall not be killed, but shall be kept in confinement until the health officer or his deputies or the chief animal control officer or his deputies shall find that further observation of the animal is not necessary for the determination of the presence of rabies, or absence of rabies.

(Ord. 255 §1(part), 1978).