Oakland County Health Division (OCHD), Communicable Disease Unit

Animal Bite Reporting

Any business where a dog, cat or other animal bites a person — a veterinary practice most directly — must report the bite to OCHD's Communicable Disease Unit for rabies surveillance and quarantine follow-up, working in coordination with local Animal Control agencies. Oakland's own Mandated Services page lists 'animal confinement (in bite incidents)' among the Sanitary Code's eleven articles by name, without printing a specific article number for that duty; the Sanitary Code itself derives its authority from Michigan's 1927 PA 306, cited here as the enabling statute behind the county's mandated environmental-health services generally. There is no fee for the reporting obligation itself; it is a mandatory compliance duty, not a licensed transaction with an associated charge. A veterinary practice's own state licensing and Oakland County's conditional Commercial Kennel License, where boarding is offered, are listed separately for this county.