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title: O.C.G.A. § 31-19-1. Responsibility for control.
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# O.C.G.A. § 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.

## History

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