                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

RABIES EXPOSURE; LOCAL AUTHORITY AND RESPONSIBILITY PLAN (§ 3.2-6562.1)

The local health director, in conjunction with the governing body of the
locality, shall adopt a plan to control and respond to the risk of rabies
exposure to persons and companion animals. Such plan shall set forth a procedure
that promptly ensures the capture, confinement, isolation, or euthanasia of any
animal that has exposed, or poses a risk of exposing, a person or companion
animal to rabies. The plan shall identify the authority and responsibility of
the local health department, law-enforcement officers, animal control officers,
and any other persons with a duty to control or respond to a risk of rabies
exposure. The plan shall provide for law-enforcement officers, animal control
officers, and other persons to report to and be directed by the local health
director for such purposes.

HISTORY: 2010, c. 834.