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Uxbridge Board of Health appoints Blackstone Valley Animal Control to issue on-scene quarantine orders
Summary
The Uxbridge Board of Health voted unanimously March 21 to appoint Blackstone Valley Animal Control as agents authorized to issue quarantine orders on active animal-bite calls, a change the board said will reduce duplicate visits by inspectors and improve efficiency.
On March 21, 2025 the Town of Uxbridge Board of Health voted unanimously to appoint Blackstone Valley Animal Control as agents of the board authorized to issue quarantine orders on active animal-bite calls.
Board members said the change is intended to eliminate duplicate visits to residents after bite incidents. A presenter at the meeting described the current practice: "What the animal control officer does is he goes to the house, he takes the report, and he tells the people that the animal inspector will be by, at some point in the future to tell you to quarantine…
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