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HomeMy WebLinkAbout95-2025 - ADMIN Ordinance - City Council - 1995/03/20i ORDINANCE NO. 95-2025 AN ORDINANCE RELATING TO ANIMAL QUARANTINE; AMENDING SECTION 11-312 THE CITY OF ST. LOUIS PARK DOES ORDAIN: Section 1. Section 11-312 is amended to read as follows: Section 11-312. Animal Quarantine. Whenever any person owning, possessing or harboring any dog or cat within the City shall learn that such dog or cat has potentially exposed any human being to rabies, such person shall immediately impound said dog or cat in a place of confinement where it cannot escape or have access to any human being or other animal and shall also immediately notify the Chief of Police. Whenever the Chief of Police shall learn that any human being has been potentially exposed to rabies by any dog or cat within the city, the Chief of Police shall ascertain the identity of such dog or cat and the person owning, possessing or harboring it and shall immediately direct such person to forthwith impound such dog or cat as herein required. The Chief shall notify the Health Authority of the place where the animal is impounded. Any dog or cat so impounded shall be kept continuously so confined for a period of ten days from the day the dog or cat potentially exposed a human being. The Health Authority shall have access at all reasonable times to the premises where such dog or cat is kept and may take possession of the dog or cat and confine it in the city pound or other suitable place at the expense of the owner. The owner or person in possession or harboring such dog or cat shall immediately notify the Health Authority of any evidence of sickness or the death of the dog or cat during its period of confinement and shall promptly deliver its carcass to the Health Authority in case of its death during said period. It shall be the duty of the Health Authority to determine by inspection or telephone call if said dog or cat is alive at the end of the ten day confinement period. In lieu of quarantine, or at anytime during the quarantine period, the owner may voluntarily, in consultation with the Health Authority, release the dog or cat to a veterinarian to destroy the dog or cat and subject it to laboratory examination for evidence of rabies virus. The owner shall be responsible for all veterinarian and laboratory costs. The veterinarian shall report the results of the laboratory examination to the Health Authority immediately upon receipt. The Health Authority, in agreement with an attending physician or the Minnesota Department of Health may confiscate, destroy and subject to laboratory examination a dog or cat which has potentially exposed a human being to rabies if such dog or cat exhibits signs of illness indicating the presence of rabies during the quarantine period. The Health Authority, in consultation with the Minnesota Department of Health, may confiscate, destroy and subject to laboratory examination any animal other than a dog or cat if such animal has potentially exposed any human being to rabies. The owner or other person in possession of any animal confiscated by the Health Authority shall be notified prior to such action if the owner or other person is available. Section 2. Severability. If one or more of the provisions contained in this ordinance shall for any reason be held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any respect, such invalidity, illegality or unenforceability shall not affect any other provision hereof, and this ordinance shall be construed as if such invalid, illegal, or unenforceable provision had never been contained herein. 407A/242S:94-- Section 3. Penalty. Any person violating the provisions of this ordinance shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be punished in accordance with Section 2-203 of the St. Louis Park Municipal Code. Section 4. Effective Date, This ordinance shall take effect 15 days after its publication. Adopted by the City Council March 20, 1995 Attest: kf .e•64 City Clerk Reviewed for administration: M Approved as to form and execution: MIPUBL1CAl IOr 9r►Q.rarq 9.MPoat Sir�Saoor AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION STATE OF MINNESOTA) ss. COUNTY OF HENNEPIN) Dona I d W. T h u r I ow being duly sworn on an oath says that he/she is the publisher or authorized agent and employee of the publisher of the newspaper known as Sun -Sail o r s ,and has full knowledge of the facts which are stated below (A) The newspaper has complied with all of the requirements constituting qualification as a qualified newspaper, as provided by Minnesota Statute 331A 02, 331A 07, and other applicable laws, as amended. (B) The printed Ordinance No. 95-2025 which is attached was cut from the columns of said newspaper, and was pnnted and published once each week, for 0 n e successive weeks, it was first published ONednesday the29 day of March ,1995.and was thereafter pnnted and published on every to and including , the day of , 19 and printed below is a copy of the lower case alphabet from A to Z, both inclusive, which is hereby acknowledged as being the size and kind of type used in the composition and publication of the notice. Acknowledged before me on this No 29 day of M ry abcdefghgklmnopgretu BY TITE Publisher ,1995 MERID M HEDBLOM NOTARY PUBLIC - MINNESOTA HENNEPIN COUNTY My Commission Expires Jan. 31, 2000 RATE INFORMATION est classified rate paid by commercial users ror comparable space (2) Maximum rate allowed by law for the above matter (3) Rate actually charged for the above matter $ 1 90 per line $ 1 90 per line $ 1 02 per line City of St. Louis Park (Official Publication) ORDINANCE NO 95-2025 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE ST LOUIS PARK ORDINANCE CODE RELATING TO ANIMAL, QUARANTINE Tnis ordinance permits the owner of a dog or cat which has bitten a person have the animal euthamzed by a vet- ennanan and submitted for laboratory examination in heu of quarantine All costs will be the responsibility of the ani- mal owner Adopted by the City Council March 20, 1995 Is/ LYLE HANKS, Mayor (The full text of this ordinance is available with the City Clerk ) (March 29, J995)—SLP