The State Board of Health, with the consent of the governor, when it deems it proper or necessary to do so, may call upon the government of the United States for such financial and medical aid as the necessities created by an epidemic or any other health emergency may require.Codes, 1906, § 2502; Hemingway's 1917, § 4851; 1930, § 4888; 1942, § 7044; Laws, 1983, ch. 522, § 8, eff. 7/1/1983.
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