Section 441A.420 - Rabies control authority to investigate case or suspected case of animal rabies; authority of rabies control authority to enter private property; destruction of head of rabies-susceptible animal prohibited1. The rabies control authority shall investigate each report of a case having animal rabies or suspected case considered to have animal rabies to confirm the diagnosis, to identify the source of infection, to identify any human or animal contacts, to order the disposition of rabid or suspected rabid animals and to make recommendations for postexposure rabies prophylaxis.2. If the rabies control authority is not the health authority, recommendations concerning postexposure prophylaxis must be made in accordance with a protocol established by the health authority.3. The rabies control authority may enter private property for the purpose of: a. Investigating an animal bite and assessing any animal that has been in close contact with another animal suspected or known to have rabies;b. Seizing an animal that has bitten a person;c. Determining if any animal kept or harbored therein has rabies or has been exposed to rabies; ord. Implementing orders for quarantine, confinement, confiscation or euthanasia of an animal.4. Unless authorized by the rabies control authority, a person shall not destroy or allow to be destroyed the head of a rabies-susceptible animal which has bitten a person.Nev. Admin. Code § 441A.420
Added to NAC by Bd. of Health, eff. 1-24-92; A by R121-14, eff. 10/27/2015