Your Hometown in the Smokies.

Dolly Parton Statue in front of Sevier County Courthouse in Sevierville, Tennessee

Welcome to the official web site of the City of Sevierville, Tennessee.
Dolly Parton's Hometown, and your Hometown in the Smokies as well!

We hope you enjoy our site and find the information helpful. Please feel free to look around and discover all that Sevierville, Tennessee has to offer.

It is the mission of the City of Sevierville to provide quality services
while preserving and advancing the collective interests
of all the citizens and visitors of our community.

If you have any questions about our City, please call us at 865.453.5504

For more information about our city, please see the City of Sevierville Relocation Information at the bottom of this page.

10. Rabies and Animal Bites

SECTION

10-1001. Reporting.
10-1002. Control.

10-1001. Reporting. Anyone having knowledge or reason to believe that any animal in the City has bitten a person shall report within twenty-four (24) hours, so far as is known, the name and address of the owner and circumstances of the animal. Such report concerning bites shall be made to the Police Department. (1996 Code, § 10-1201)

10-1002. Control.
(1) Whenever any domesticated animal has bitten a person, it shall be confined in such place as the Police Department may direct and for such period of observation as may be necessary, unless such animal is too vicious and dangerous to be impounded safely, in which case it may be killed and head shipped to the state laboratory for rabies examination.
(2) Whenever a wild animal has bitten a person, it shall be killed, avoiding damage to the head (brain) area, and shipped to the Tennessee Department of Agriculture Knoxville Branch Rabies Laboratory, under refrigeration, but not frozen, for rabies examination. (Ord. #2011-021, Dec. 2011)