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§ 31-19-1 — Responsibility for control

Georgia § 31-19-1
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O.C.G.A. § 31-19-1 (2026).

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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.

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Jarvis v. State
669 S.E.2d 477 (Court of Appeals of Georgia, 2008)
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