32.1-48.3 - Regulations of Commissioner covering local ordinances and requirements. - Virginia Statutes

§ 32.1-48.3. Regulations of Commissioner covering localordinances and requirements.

If the governing body of the county or city in which theoutbreak exists does not adopt, under § 3.2-6522, subsection A of § 3.2-6525,§§ 3.2-6538, 3.2-6539, and 3.2-6546, ordinances, regulations and measures toprohibit the running at large of dogs and to prevent the spread of rabies, theState Health Commissioner is authorized to adopt regulations providing for thematters contained in such sections and to enforce the same in the same manneras if they had been specifically adopted by the governing body of the county orcity involved, and the provisions of such sections shall apply mutatis mutandisto the regulations adopted by the Commissioner hereunder.

(1954, c. 339, § 29-213.3; 1987, c. 488; 2001, c. 674.)