LAWS OF THE 2001 REGULAR SESSION
OF THE SEVENTY-NINTH
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA

CH. 19

CHAPTER 19

ANIMAL BITES AND RABIES — LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY DOGS AND HORSES

H.F. 179   Bill History

AN ACT relating to excluding from confinement dogs used by police or correctional officers.

Be It Enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa:

Section 1. Section 351.39, Code 2001, is amended to read as follows:

351.39 CONFINEMENT.

When If a local board of health receives information that any person has been bitten by an animal has bitten a person or that a dog or animal is suspected of having rabies, it 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 two weeks 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 to a police service dog or a horse used by a law enforcement agency, that is acting in the performance of its duties which has bitten a person.1

Approved March 30, 2001

1 See chapter 176, §68 herein



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