26-6-11 - Rabies or other animal disease -- Investigation and order of quarantine. - Utah Statutes

26-6-11. Rabies or other animal disease -- Investigation and order of quarantine.
Whenever rabies or any other animal disease dangerous to the health of human beings isreported, the department shall investigate to determine whether such disease exists, and theprobable area of the state in which man or beast is thereby endangered. If the department findsthat such disease exists, a quarantine may be declared against all animals designated in thequarantine order and within the area specified in the order. If the quarantine is for the purpose ofpreventing the spread of rabies or hydrophobia, the order shall contain a warning to the owners ofdogs within the quarantined area to confine or muzzle all dogs to prevent biting. Any dog notmuzzled found running at large in a quarantined area or any dog known to have been removedfrom or escaped from such area, may be killed by any person without liability therefor.

Enacted by Chapter 126, 1981 General Session