O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 31-19-1 (2019)

Responsibility for control

✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)

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Each county board of health shall have primary responsibility for the control of rabies within its jurisdiction. Such boards, in addition to their other powers, are empowered and required to adopt and promulgate rules and regulations for the prevention and control of such disease.

History

Ga. L. 1945, p. 448, § 2; Code 1933, § 88-1501, enacted by Ga. L. 1964, p. 499, § 1.

Annotations

OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL Expense of confining animals exhibiting signs of rabies included in county board’s budget. - Local county boards of health should prescribe rules for prevention and control of rabies by providing for vaccination, tagging, and certification of dogs, and for confinement of any animal which exhibits any signs of rabies; cost of such confinement would be an expense of county board of health to be included in the board’s budget which is

submitted to local taxing authorities under provisions of Ga. L. 1964, p. 499, § 1. 1965-66 Op. Att’y Gen. No. 65-21. Responsibility of county boards of health regarding strays and unwanted dogs. - Local county boards of health should adopt rules and regulations relative to catching and impounding of strays and unwanted dogs. 1965-66 Op. Att’y Gen. No. 65-21.

RESEARCH REFERENCES C.J.S. - 39A C.J.S., Health and Environment, § 16 et seq.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 1 case, 2008–2008 · leading case: Jarvis v. State, 669 S.E.2d 477 (Ga. Ct. App. 2008).

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Jarvis v. State, 669 S.E.2d 477 (Ga. Ct. App. 2008). · cites it 2× “Jarvis argues that OCGA §§ 31-19-1 and 31-19-7 provide that the County Board of Health is required to appoint a person to be the County rabies control officer and that this appointed person has the duty of enforcing rabies laws.”

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