351.39 Confinement.
If a local board of health receives information that an animal has bitten a person or that a dog or animal is suspected of having rabies, the board 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 by such 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. 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.
[C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §351.39]
2001 Acts, ch 19, §1; 2001 Acts, ch 176, §68
Referred to in §351.36, 351.42, 351.43
Structure Iowa Code
Chapter 351 - DOGS AND OTHER ANIMALS
Section 351.25 - Dog as property.
Section 351.26 - Right and duty to kill untagged dog.
Section 351.27 - Right to kill tagged dog.
Section 351.28 - Liability for damages.
Section 351.29 - Construction clause.
Section 351.33 - Rabies vaccination.
Section 351.34 - Condition for license.
Section 351.35 - How and when.
Section 351.37 - Dogs running at large — impoundment — disposition.
Section 351.38 - Owner’s duty.
Section 351.41 - Not a limitation on power of municipalities and counties.
Section 351.45 - Tampering with a rabies vaccination tag — penalties.
Section 351.46 - Tampering with an electronic handling device — penalties.