16-54. Area-wide emergency quarantine.
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Quarantine ordered. When reports indicate a positive diagnosis of rabies in an animal found within Henderson County or any adjacent County, the County Director of Public Health may order an area-wide quarantine for such period, as he/she deems necessary. Upon invoking such emergency quarantine, no dog or cat may be taken or shipped from the County without written permission of the County Director of Public Health. The Director of Public Health can place a moratorium on adoptions of animals from the County Shelter. All Animal Services and law enforcement officers are duly authorized by North Carolina General Statutes
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to seize, impound or shoot any dog or cat found not under control in the County during an emergency quarantine. During the quarantine period, the County Director of Public Health shall be empowered to provide for a program of mass immunization by the establishment of temporary emergency rabies vaccination facilities strategically located throughout the County.
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Extension of quarantine. In the event there are additional positive cases of rabies occurring during the period of quarantine, such period of quarantine may be extended at the discretion of the County Director of Public Health.
