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, § […]
Any person who violates any provision of this chapter or any rule or regulation adopted pursuant thereto shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. History. Ga. L. 1945, p. 448, § 11; Code 1933, § 88-1507, enacted by Ga. L. 1964, p. 499, § 1.
The department may declare any county or any area therein or any group of counties or areas therein where rabies exists to be an infected area and may provide for immunization and such other measures as shall be indicated for the prevention and control of the disease. History. Code 1933, § 88-1502, enacted by Ga. […]
The governing authorities of each county and municipality are authorized and required, in the control of rabies, to require regulation or licensing of animals. History. Code 1933, § 88-1503, enacted by Ga. L. 1964, p. 499, § 1; Ga. L. 1969, p. 834, § 2.
It shall be the duty of any person bitten by any animal reasonably suspected of being rabid immediately to notify the appropriate county board of health. It shall be the duty of the owner, custodian, or person having possession and knowledge of any animal which has bitten any person or animal or of any animal […]
The county boards of health are empowered and required to adopt and promulgate rules and regulations requiring canines and felines to be inoculated against rabies and to prescribe the intervals and means of inoculation, the fees to be paid in county sponsored clinics, that procedures be in compliance with the recommendations of the National Association […]
The county board of health shall appoint a person who is knowledgeable of animals to be the county rabies control officer. It shall be the duty of the county rabies control officer to enforce this chapter and other laws which regulate the activities of dogs. The county governing authority of each county is authorized to […]
The governing authority of each county may devise and implement plans whereby this chapter, as amended, is administered jointly with one or more adjoining counties. History. Code 1933, § 88-1506.2, enacted by Ga. L. 1969, p. 834, § 6.
This chapter shall not apply to municipalities which already have a rabies control law unless and until such law is repealed. History. Ga. L. 1945, p. 448, § 13; Ga. L. 1969, p. 834, § 7.
