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0 anv 11 'rIkcE 87 confined in the county animal shelter, the owner shall pay a fee determined by resolution of the Board of County Commissioners for each day of confine- ment to defray the cost of feeding, upon reclaiming the animal. Fees shall be available for public inspection in the office of the County Manager and the Lee County Animal Shelter. (e) In the case of any carnivore or bat the animal may be euthanized and the head examined for rabies. Sec. 5. Destruction or confinement of animal bitten by rabid animal. Animals bitten by a known rabid animal shall be immediately destroyed, unless the owner agrees to strict isolation of the animal in an animal shelter, boarding kennel, or at a veterinary hospital for a period of six (6) months; if the animal has a current rabies inoculation, it shall be revaccinated and returned to the owner. Sec. 6. Area-wide emergency quarantine. (a) When reports indicate a positive diagnosis of rabies, the District Director of Public Health may order an area-wide quarantine for such period as he deems necessary. Upon invoking of such emergency quarantine, no dog or other carnivore shall be taken into the streets or permitted to be in the streets during such period. During such quarantine, no dog or other carnivore may be taken or shipped from the county without written permission of the Animal Control Section, and the police and sheriff's departments are hereby directed during such emergency, to impound any dog or other carnivore found running at large in the county. During the quarantine period, the Animal Control Section or the local health authorities shall be empowered to provide for a program of mass immunization by the establishment of temporary emergency rabies vaccination facilities strategically located throughout the county. (b) In the event there are additional positive cases of rabies occurring during the period of quarantine, such period of quarantine may be extended at the discretion of the District Director of Public Health. Sec. 7. Postmortem diagnosis (a) If an animal dies while under observation for rabies, the head of such animal shall be submitted to the County Health Department for shipment to the Laboratory Section of the Division of Health Services for rabies diagnosis. (b) The carcass of any animal suspected of dying of rabies shall be surrendered to the Animal Control Section. The head of such animal shall be submitted to the County Health Department for shipment to the Laboratory Section of the Division of Health Services for rabies diagnosis.