CHAPTER 440

An Act to amend and reenact § 29-188.1, as amended, of the Code of
Virginia, relating to dog licenses; inoculation for rabies as prerequt-
site for issuance thereof; exceptions.

[H 249]

Approved April 2, 1968

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 29-188.1, as amended, of the Code of Virginia be amended and
reenacted as follows:

§ 29-188.1. Evidence showing inoculation for rabies prerequisite to
obtaining dog license; exceptions.—(a) No license tag shall be issued for
any dog unless there is presented, to the treasurer or other officer of the
county, city or town charged by law with the duty of issuing license tags
for dogs at the time application for license is made, evidence satisfactory
to him showing that such dog has been inoculated or vaccinated against
rabies by a currently licensed veterinarian.

(b) The provisions of this section shall not apply to the county of
Accomack or the county of Northampton; provided, that the governing
body of the county of Accomack or the county of Northampton, may,
by ordinance, provide that before licenses are issued within such county,
dogs shall be inoculated or vaccinated for rabies.

(c) The provisions of this section shall not apply in the counties of
Buchanan, Dickenson or Lee, if rabies clinics are not established and
available by January 1, 1969, said clinics to be held in each county at least
three times per year, and which clinics shall be approved by the appro-
priate Health Department and Board of Supervisors of the said counties
and provided, further, that if there is a failure to have such clinics estab-
lished and available by January 1, 1969, because of a failure of the Health
Department and/or Board of Supervisors to take appropriate action to
establish same, all provisions of this section shall apply in each of said
counties where they have not been established.