§ 300-5. Rabies vaccination.

A. 

Vaccination and license requirements. No person shall own, keep, harbor or maintain any cat over seven months old unless it is vaccinated and licensed and except in compliance with the provisions of this article. This section shall not apply to cats held in a cattery, a state or federal research facility, a veterinary establishment where cats are kept for diagnostic, medical, surgical or other treatments or licensed animal shelters, pounds, kennels or pet shops.

B. 

Vaccination. Except as provided in Subsection D, all cats shall be vaccinated against rabies by a licensed veterinarian in accordance with the latest Compendium of Animal Rabies Vaccines and Recommendations for Immunization published by the National Association of State Public Health Veterinarians, and with a rabies vaccine of a type approved by and administered in accordance with the recommendations of the United States Department of Agriculture and the United States Department of Human Services.

C. 

Vaccination certificate. The owner of each cat must, as evidence of such vaccination, produce a certificate of vaccination, which shall be in a form recommended by the state and, if no form is so recommended by the state, in a form approved by the Board of Health. Said vaccination must be current through at least March 31 of the following licensing year.

D. 

Exemptions. Any cat may be exempted from the vaccination requirements for a specified period of time by the Board of Health upon presentation of a veterinarian's certificate stating that, because of an infirmity or other physical condition, regimen or therapy, the inoculation of such cat is deemed inadvisable.