                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

REGULATIONS OF COMMISSIONER COVERING LOCAL ORDINANCES AND REQUIREMENTS (§
32.1-48.3)

If the governing body of the county or city in which the outbreak 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 to prohibit the
running at large of dogs and to prevent the spread of rabies, the State Health
Commissioner is authorized to adopt regulations providing for the matters
contained in such sections and to enforce the same in the same manner as if they
had been specifically adopted by the governing body of the county or city
involved, and the provisions of such sections shall apply mutatis mutandis to
the regulations adopted by the Commissioner hereunder.

HISTORY: 1954, c. 339, § 29-213.3; 1987, c. 488; 2001, c. 674.