§ 18-313. Statewide system

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   The Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene shall provide a statewide system:

   (1) To control rabies;

   (2) To grant authority to the public health veterinarian and the local health officer in matters pertaining to the disposition of animals that bite or otherwise expose rabies to an individual;

   (3) To assist local political subdivisions regarding the laboratory testing of rabid animals;

   (4) To treat each individual who is exposed or suspected of having been exposed to rabies; and

   (5) To distribute, in accordance with the conditions set by the Secretary of Agriculture, the biological products that are needed to prevent and treat rabies.

HISTORY: An. Code 1957, art. 43, § 615A; 1982, ch. 21, § 2; 1984, ch. 626; 1986, ch. 746.

                    
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