§ 8-121. Quarantine.

(a)

Whenever the owner or keeper of an animal has been notified by any person, whether or not an agent of the executive director, or has other cause to believe that the owner's or keeper's animal has bitten or in any other way injured a person so as to cause an abrasion of the skin, the owner or keeper shall immediately notify the executive director of the incident and shall immediately restrain the suspected animal within the owner's or keeper's property for observation by the executive director. It shall be unlawful for the owner or keeper to fail to give the required notification, to conceal, hide, or remove the suspected animal or in any other way prevent or hinder investigation and observation of the animal by the executive director.

(b)

Whenever an owner or keeper of an animal has received an order from the executive director to closely confine any animal for observation, it shall be unlawful to cause or permit the animal ordered under observation to be removed from its place of confinement for any purpose whatsoever without first obtaining written approval of the executive director.

(Ord. No. 672-18, § 1, 7-16-18)