Section 18-313 - Statewide system. - Maryland Statutes

§ 18-313. Statewide system.
 

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. 
 

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