Denver Revised Municipal Code ch. 8, art. V — HEALTH REGULATIONS | Denver Revised Municipal Code (Supp. No. 147, Update 3: codified through Ordinance No. 0852-26, enacted July 13, 2026) — City of Denver

Denver Revised Municipal Code § 8-121 Quarantine.

Sec. 8-121. - Quarantine. (a) Whenever the owner or keeper of an animal has been notified by any person, whether or not an agent of the executive director, or has other cause to believe that the owner's or keeper's animal has bitten or in any other way injured a person so as to cause an abrasion of the skin, the owner or keeper shall immediately notify the executive director of the incident and shall immediately restrain the suspected animal within the owner's or keeper's property for observation by the executive director. It shall be unlawful for the owner or keeper to fail to give the required notification, to conceal, hide, or remove the suspected animal or in any other way prevent or hinder investigation and observation of the animal by the executive director. (b) Whenever an owner or keeper of an animal has received an order from the executive director to closely confine any animal for observation, it shall be unlawful to cause or permit the animal ordered under observation to be removed from its place of confinement for any purpose whatsoever without first obtaining written approval of the executive director. (Ord. No. 672-18, § 1, 7-16-18)

Denver Revised Municipal Code § 8-122 Dead animals.

Sec. 8-122. - Dead animals. (a) Report to city. Every person having possession, under control, or upon any premises occupied or controlled by such person any dead animal, not proper for food, and liable to become noxious or detrimental to the public health, shall, at once, report the same to the manager of transportation and infrastructure; and it shall be the duty of all agents, employees and servants of the city, including members of the police department, to report to the manager of transportation and infrastructure, without delay, any carcass or remains of any dead animal which they may find, or as to the existence of which, within the city, they are informed. (b) Removal and disposition by owners: (1) Any person who shall kill or order killed any animals shall, at the time, arrange for its removal from the place of killing to the proper place of interment or rendering, and shall be responsible for removal and burial or rendering in accordance with the provisions of this Code or other applicable law. (2) It shall be the duty of the owner or keeper of any animal found dead in the city within six (6) hours after the death of the animal to arrange for its removal and burial or rendering in accordance with the provisions of this Code or other applicable law. (c) Removal by city: (1) The manager of transportation and infrastructure is hereby authorized and directed, by and with the advice and consent of the mayor, to contract for the removal of carcasses of all dead animals lying in the streets, alleys, or other public ways and places of the city, or on private premises therein. (2) The contractor under the contract, before entering upon his/her duties, shall execute to the city a bond, with good and sufficient sureties, in the penal sum of ten thousand dollars ($10,000.00), to be approved by the mayor, to be conditioned for the faithful and punctual performance of the duties imposed by this Code, the ordinances of the city, and the contract. (3) The contractor under the contract shall have exclusive right to remove and dispose of all carcasses of dead animals found lying in the streets, alleys or other public ways and places of the city, or on private premises therein, not removed by the owner within six (6) hours of daylight time following death of such animal. (4) It shall be the duty of the contractor, twenty-four (24) hours after notification of the whereabouts of any dead animal, to remove and dispose of the same. (5) Utmost precaution shall be used in the removal of such dead animals, that the same may be conveyed in the most inoffensive manner possible. The carcasses shall, while being removed, be covered either by tarpaulin or otherwise, and the vehicle transporting them shall not stop in transit unless detained by traffic regulations or by some unavoidable accident or cause. (Ord. No. 672-18, § 1, 7-16-18; Ord. No. 39-20, § 14, 2-3-20)