Code of Alabama - Title 3: Animals - Chapter 7A - Rabies

• Section 3-7A-1 Definitions
  As used in this chapter, the following words and phrases shall have the following meanings respectively ascribed to them unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:...
• Section 3-7A-3 Immunization fee
  At public rabies clinics, the rabies officer may charge an immunization fee established by a committee consisting of the State Health Officer, the State Veterinarian,...
• Section 3-7A-2 Dogs, cats, and ferrets to be immunized; sale, etc., of vaccine; vaccination exemptions
  (a) Every owner of a dog, cat, or ferret required to be immunized for rabies as defined in this chapter, shall cause the animal to...
• Section 3-7A-4 Issuance of tag
  Coincident with the issuance of the certificate of immunization, the rabies officer, his authorized representative, or any duly licensed veterinarian, who provided the certificate shall...
• Section 3-7A-5 Replacement of tag and certificate
  In the event a tag or certificate is lost after it has been legally issued, every replacement thereof shall be upon such terms as may...
• Section 3-7A-6 Penalty for dog or cat without tag or certificate
  The owner of any dog or cat found not wearing the evidence of current immunization as provided herein or for which no certificate of current...
• Section 3-7A-7 Maintenance of pound; notice of impoundment
  Each county in the state shall provide a suitable county pound and impounding officer for the impoundment of dogs, cats, and ferrets found running at...
• Section 3-7A-8 Destruction of impounded dogs, cats, and ferrets; when authorized; redemption by owner; adoption of animals
  All dogs, cats, and ferrets which have been impounded in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, after notice is given to the owner as...
• Section 3-7A-9 Quarantine of dog, cat, or ferret which bites human being; destruction and examination of animal; violations; instructions for quarantine; report of results; exemptions
  (a) Whenever the rabies officer or the health officer receives information that a human being has been bitten or exposed by a dog, cat, or...
• Section 3-7A-10 Destruction of domesticated species exposed to rabid animal; optional quarantine
  Those domesticated species, for which rabies vaccine is recognized and recommended, upon exposure or potential exposure to a known rabid animal, shall be humanely destroyed...
• Section 3-7A-11 County rabies officer; application; appointment; term; powers and duties; authority of county board of health
  (a) The county board of health shall nominate annually one duly licensed veterinarian from each county within the state for the position of rabies officer....
• Section 3-7A-12 Penalty for violations
  Except as provided for in Section 3-7A-6, any person violating or aiding or abetting the violation of any provision of this chapter, or counterfeiting or...
• Section 3-7A-13 Placement of area under quarantine; additional measures
  (a) The State Health Officer, upon request of authorized local officials, may place certain areas of the state under a rabies quarantine to prevent the...
• Section 3-7A-14 Power of municipalities
  Nothing in this chapter shall be held to limit in any manner the power of any municipality to prohibit dogs, cats, or ferrets from running...
• Section 3-7A-15 Rules
  The State Board of Health is authorized to adopt and promulgate rules for the enforcement of this chapter, which rules shall have the force and...
• Section 3-7A-16 Relation to Volunteer Service Act
  A licensed veterinarian and his or her assistants, whether compensated by fee or otherwise or not compensated, when assisting the county rabies officer at any...

Last modified: May 3, 2021