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Sec. 14-4. Authorization for quarantine.

The director of animal services shall report to the mayor in the event a potential outbreak of rabies or other contagious disease is suspected in the animal or fowl population and if the mayor concurs with the director of animal services that the danger to the public safety from rabid or diseased animals or fowl is reasonably imminent, the mayor is hereby authorized and it shall be his duty to issue a quarantine proclamation ordering persons owning, keeping or harboring any animal or fowl to confine it for such time as may be specified in the quarantine proclamation. Upon the publication of such proclamation by the mayor, no person keeping or harboring any animal or fowl shall allow such animal or fowl to run at large as defined in section 14-1. All dogs, cats or other animals or fowl found running at large during the time specified by the mayor in the quarantine proclamation without being properly confined may be killed by any officer of the city under procedures established by the division of animal services.

(Ord. No. 2943, 10-26-99; Ord. No. 4154, § 1, 1-8-08)

Cross reference(s)--Health and sanitation, ch. 54.

State law reference(s)--Quarantines generally, A.C.A. § 20-19-309; city may impose additional measures, A.C.A. § 20-19-310.

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