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of the owner, or other site as may be approved by the local health department, for a period of 90 days. (c) If the owner or person having custody of such animal shall be unwilling or unable to subject any animal to the quarantine required by the director of public health, or if, in the opinion of the director of public health, such is necessary, it shall be the duty of the director of public health to cause such animal to be impounded at the facility of the Portsmouth Humane Society, Inc. or other entity serving as the city's public animal shelter for the quarantine period required, and the owner or custodian of such animal shall pay the sum as set forth in appendix A to this Code for each day or part thereof the animal is so quarantined. 10. That subsections (b)-(c) of Section 4-99 the Code of the City of Portsmouth, Virginia (2006) is hereby amended as follows: Sec. 4-99. -Confinement of animal which has bitten person or another animal. (b) When any potentially rabid animal, other than a dog or cat, exposes or may have exposed a person to rabies through a bite, or through saliva or central nervous system tissue, in a fresh open wound or mucous membrane, that animal shall be confined at the discretion of the director of public health in a manner approved by the health department or humanely euthanized as provided in Code of Virginia, §3.2-6546 and its head sent to the division of consolidated laboratory services of the department of general services or the local health department for evaluation. (c) When any animal, other than a dog or cat, is exposed to rabies through a bite, or through saliva or central nervous system tissue, in a fresh open wound or mucous membrane, by an animal believed to be afflicted with rabies, that newly exposed animal shall be confined at the discretion of the director of public health in a manner approved by the health department or humanely euthanized as provided in Code of Virginia, §3.2-6546. 11. That this ordinance shall take effect on the date of adoption. ADOPTED by the Council of the City of Portsmouth, Virginia, at a meeting held on February 23, 2016. Teste: City Clerk 6