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2018 Georgia Code 31-19-1 | Car Wreck Lawyer

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TITLE 31 HEALTH

Section 19. Control of Rabies, 31-19-1 through 31-19-10.

ARTICLE 7 EMERGENCY CARDIAC CARE CENTERS

31-19-1. Responsibility for control.

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.

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

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, § 32 et seq.

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