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CHAPTER 19
(Senate Bill 19)

AN ACT to add a new section to Article 43 of the Anno-
tated Code of Maryland (1951 Edition), title "Health,"
sub-title 'Rabies," said new section to be known as Sec-
tion 576, and to follow immediately after Section 575
of said Article, relating to dogs or other animals subject
to rabies and suspected of having rabies and the pro-
cedure to be followed in certain cases.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That a new section be and it is hereby added
to Article 43 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1951
Edition), title "Health," sub-title "Rabies," said new sec-
tion to be known as Section 576, to follow immediately
after Section 575 of said Article, and to read as follows:

576. In any county OR BALTIMORE CITY when any
dog or other animal subject to rabies has bitten or attacked
any person or when any dog or other animal is suspected
of having rabies, it shall be the duty of any person having
a knowledge of such facts to report the same immediately
to the County OR CITY Health Officer. Such animal shall
not be killed but shall be confined in such way and for
such period as said County OR CITY Health Officer shall
direct, and such confinement shall only be terminated with
the consent of such Health Officer. The confinement of
such animal shall be at the expense of the owner, or cus-
todian of such animal

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AND ANY HEALTH OFFICER
SHALL BE EMPOWERED IN HIS DISCRETION TO
ORDER AN EXAMINATION OF ANY SUCH DOG OR
ANIMAL TO DETERMINE WHETHER IT MAY HAVE
RABIES. // the animal dies or has been killed, its head
shall be removed and sent immediately to the laboratory
of the State Department of Health or the laboratory of the
Livestock Sanitary Service of the State Department of
Agriculture for examination.

Any person refusing or failing to comply with the pro-
visions of this section or with the orders or directives of
the County OR CITY Health Officer relating thereto, shall

Explanation: Italics indicate new matter added to existing law.

[Brackets] indicate matter stricken from existing law.
CAPITALS indicate amendments to bill.
Strike out indicates matter stricken out of bill.