Md. Code, Health - General § 18-217
This is the official text of Md. Code, Health - General § 18-217, part of Maryland’s Code, Health - General — covers public health regulation.
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§18–217.
Official statutory text
The General Assembly finds and declares that it is in the public interest to ensure the public health, safety, and welfare by strictly regulating in this State the importation, transportation, sale, transfer, breeding, raising, keeping, and possession of certain animals which pose a possibility of the introduction of a disease or pest harmful to humans, or endangers the physical safety of human beings.
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