NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1977 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 628

HOUSE BILL 1229

 

 

AN ACT TO ALLOW A LOCAL HEALTH DIRECTOR TO CONFINE AN ANIMAL HAVING RABIES OR SUSPECTED OF HAVING RABIES IF THE OWNER REFUSES TO DO SO.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  Section 106-380 of the General Statutes is hereby amended by adding the following sentence immediately after the last sentence of the present text of the section:

"If the owner of or a person who has in his possession or under his control an animal having rabies or suspected of having rabies refuses to confine the animal as required by this section or by G.S. 106-378, the local health director may order seizure of the animal and its confinement for 10 days in such place as the director designates, the expense to be paid by the owner."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 20th day of June, 1977.