§ 800-108. LABORATORY EXAMINATION OF RABID ANIMALS, CLINICALLY SUSPECTED RABID ANIMALS OR BITING ANIMALS WHICH DIE OR HAVE BEEN KILLED  


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  • If any rabid animal, clinically suspected rabid animal or biting animal dies or has been killed, adequate brain specimens shall be obtained and examined in a public health laboratory approved by the State Department of Health. No person shall destroy or allow to be destroyed the brain of an animal of a species subject to rabies that has bitten or otherwise exposed a person before the destruction of such brain has been authorized by the Health Officer.