§ 4-39. Confinement.  


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  • When the local animal control board receives information that any person has been bitten by an animal or that a dog or animal is suspected of having rabies, it shall order the owner to confine such animal in the manner it directs. If the owner fails to confine such animal in the manner directed, the animal shall be apprehended and impounded at the direction of the local animal control board, and after ten days the board may humanely destroy the animal. If such animal is returned to its owner, the owner shall pay the cost of impoundment. If the animal is destroyed the owner shall pay costs of impounding and euthanasia. This section shall not apply if a police service dog or a horse used by a law enforcement agency and acting in the performance of its duties has bitten a person.

(Prior Code, § 55.13)

State law reference

Similar provisions, I.C.A. § 351.39.