California Health and Safety Code CHAPTER 1 - Rabies Control

  • Section 121575.
    “Rabies,” as used in this chapter, includes rabies, and any other animal disease dangerous to human beings that may be declared by the department as...
  • Section 121580.
    “Quarantine,” as used in this chapter, means the strict confinement, upon the private premises of the owner, under restraint by leash, closed cage, or paddock,...
  • Section 121585.
    “Rabies area” shall mean any area not less than a county as determined by the director within a region where the existence of rabies constitutes...
  • Section 121595.
    Whenever any case of rabies is reported as existing in any county or city, the department shall make, or cause to be made, a preliminary...
  • Section 121600.
    If upon the investigation the department finds that rabies exists, a quarantine shall be declared against all animals as are designated in the quarantine order,...
  • Section 121605.
    Following the order of quarantine the department shall make or cause to be made a thorough investigation as to the extent of the disease, the...
  • Section 121610.
    The department may substitute for the quarantine order regulations as may be deemed adequate for the control of the disease in each area.(Added by Stats....
  • Section 121615.
    All peace officers and boards of health shall carry out the provisions of this chapter.(Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec. 7. Effective January 1,
  • Section 121620.
    During the period for which any quarantine order is in force any officer may kill or in his or her discretion capture and hold for...
  • Section 121625.
    Any proper official within the meaning of this chapter may examine and enter upon all private premises for the enforcement of this chapter.(Added by Stats....
  • Section 121630.
    Except as provided in Sections 121705 and 121710, every person who possesses or holds any animal in violation of the provisions of this chapter is...
  • Section 121635.
    For the purpose of providing funds to pay expenses incurred in connection with the eradication of rabies, the rabies treatment and eradication fund is continued...
  • Section 121640.
    All money collected for dog license taxes shall be deposited to the credit of this fund with the treasurer of the county or city; but...
  • Section 121645.
    Upon the determination by the department that rabies exists in any county or city, a special dog license tax shall immediately become effective, unless a...
  • Section 121650.
    This tax shall be levied as follows: An annual tax of one dollar and fifty cents ($1.50) for each male, two dollars and fifty cents...
  • Section 121655.
    After this dog license tax has been established in a county or city, it shall be continued in force until an order has been issued...
  • Section 121660.
    One half of all fines collected by any court or judge for violations of this chapter shall be placed to the credit of the rabies...
  • Section 121665.
    Whenever it becomes necessary in the judgment of the department, to enforce this chapter in any county or city, the department may institute special measures...
  • Section 121670.
    All expenditures incurred in enforcing the special measures shall be proper charges against the special fund referred to in this chapter, and shall be paid...
  • Section 121675.
    All expenditures in excess of the balance of money in this fund shall likewise be paid as they accrue from the general fund. All money...
  • Section 121680.
    Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter a guide dog serving a blind master shall not be quarantined, in the absence of evidence that he...
  • Section 121685.
    Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, a dog used by any state, county, city, or city and county law enforcement agency shall not be...
  • Section 121690.
    In rabies areas, all of the following shall apply:(a) Every dog owner, after his or her dog attains the age of four months, shall no less...
  • Section 121695.
    Nothing in this chapter and Section 120435 is intended or shall be construed to limit the power of any city, city and county, or county...
  • Section 121700.
    Rabies vaccines for animal use shall not be supplied to other than a veterinary biologic supply firm, a person licensed to practice veterinary medicine under...
  • Section 121705.
    Any person who willfully conceals information about the location or ownership of an animal subject to rabies, that has bitten or otherwise exposed a person...
  • Section 121710.
    Any person who, after notice, violates any order of a local health officer concerning the isolation or quarantine of an animal of a species subject...

Last modified: October 22, 2018