Amendment to Section 2140 of the Public Health Law as it relates to rabies

Section  1. Subdivision 7 of section 2140 of the public health law, as
 added by chapter 180 of the laws of 2002, is amended to read as follows:

 7. "Confinement and observation" refers to the conditions under  which
 apparently  healthy dogs, cats, domesticated ferrets, and domestic live
 stock, which are not exhibiting symptoms of rabies, must  be  maintained
 TO  DETERMINE  RABIES STATUS if such an animal has potentially exposed a
 person to rabies, and the owner wishes to avoid euthanizing and  testing
 the  animal.  [The] IF THE COUNTY HEALTH AUTHORITY DOES NOT APPROVE HOME
 CONFINEMENT, THE ten day confinement and observation  period  must  take
 place,  at owner's expense, at an appropriate facility such as an animal
 shelter, veterinarian's office,  kennel  or  farm  [for  an  animal  not
 actively immunized against rabies at the time of the bite. County health
 departments  may  allow  home  confinements  and observation for animals
 actively immunized. Confinement and observation includes]. THE  CONFINE
 MENT  MUST INCLUDE (I) PROVISIONS TO PREVENT ESCAPE OF THE ANIMAL DURING
 THE CONFINEMENT PERIOD AND (II) REQUIREMENTS THAT THE OWNER  NOTIFY  THE
 PUBLIC HEALTH AUTHORITY IMMEDIATELY IF THE ANIMAL BECOMES ILL AT ANYTIME
 DURING CONFINEMENT, AND (III) verification by the county health authori
 ty  or their designee [both during and] at the end of the ten day period
 that the animal [cannot or has not escaped and has remained] IS healthy.
 

S 2.  This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after  it  shall
 have become a law.