Title
Ordinance amending the City Code at Title Six - Conduct, Article III - Dogs, Cats and Other Animals, various chapters, to change the name of Animal Control to the Bureau of Animal Care and Control.
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The Council of the City of Pittsburgh hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Amending Title Six - Conduct, Article III - Dogs, Cats and Other Animals, Chapter 631, Animal Bites, as follows:
ARTICLE III: DOGS, CATS AND OTHER ANIMALS
CHAPTER 631: ANIMAL BITES
§ 631.01 DEFINITION.
The previously titled "Animal Control department" shall hereafter be referred to as the "Bureau of Animal Care and Control," falling under the jurisdiction of the Director of Public Safety.
§ 631.02[1] REPORTS AND QUARANTINE NOTICE.
(a) It shall be the duty of any person treating a patient or another person who has received a bite or laceration caused by a mammal to report such injury to the City of Pittsburgh Bureau of Animal Care and Control [Department]. The report shall give the name, age, sex and address of the person treated, date of occurrence and if available, the name and address of the animal's owner and the animal's breed, sex, age, color and history of vaccination.
(b) The Police Department, City of Pittsburgh Bureau of Animal Care and Control [Department] or other authorized local agency is hereby authorized to investigate a reported biting incident and to notify the mammal owner, by a quarantine notice form the animal is required to be quarantined for not less than ten (10) days following the evening of the day of the bite. If the bite was inflicted by a wild animal or a stray unlicensed dog or cat that is not reclaimed from the impounding facility within seventy-two (72) hours or a licensed animal not reclaimed within ten (10) days, the animal may be euthanized and the remains prepared and turned over to the Allegheny County Health Department for appropriate testing for rabies virus.
(c) Following the investigation of each biting incident, th...
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