31-19-7. County rabies control officer.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Session of the General Assembly of Georgia.

(a)
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.#
(b)
The county governing authority of each county is authorized to levy a fee not to exceed 50¢ for each dog, such fee to be collected by the veterinarian administering the antirabies vaccine required by this chapter. This fee shall be in addition to that provided for in Code Section 31-19-5. If any county has no resident veterinarian, the out-of-county veterinarian administering the antirabies vaccine and collecting the fee provided for by this Code section shall forward to the treasurer of the county of the dog owner’s residence the fee prescribed by that county’s governing authority.#
(c)
The fees collected under this Code section shall be used to help in paying the salary of the county rabies control officer.#

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Code 1933, § 88-1506.1, enacted by Ga. L. 1969, p. 834, § 5; Ga. L. 1982, p. 3, § 31.

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