Title 14, Local Government

(a) All expenses legally incurred for the work of protecting the public health outside of cities and towns shall be paid by the county in which the expense is incurred, and claims shall be allowed by the county court when proved as other claims against a county are required by la…

(a) Any county may, by proper order of the county court, establish and maintain a county health department. (b) Any two (2) or more counties may, with approval of the State Board of Health and, by order of the county court of the respective counties, establish and maintain a dist…

(a) The jurisdiction of any county or district health department shall extend over all unincorporated areas and over all municipal corporations within the territorial limits of the county or the counties comprising the district, but not over the territory of any municipal corpora…

(a) The administrative and executive head of each county and district health department shall be a public health officer, which office is created by this section. (b) (1) The public health officer shall be appointed by the county or district board of health to serve for a term of…

(a) Each county and district health department shall have and exercise, in addition to all other powers and duties imposed upon it by law, the following powers and duties:(1) To administer and enforce the laws pertaining to public health and vital statistics and the orders, rules…

(a) Any county or district health department may be dissolved by a referendum initiated by petition or submitted by vote as prescribed in § 14-262-106. (b) The proposition shall be stated “FOR the discontinuance of the county (or district) health department” and “AGAINST the disc…

(a) (1) Any county adjacent to a district maintaining a district health department may, with the approval of the State Board of Health, become a part of the district by either of the following two (2) methods:(A) By agreement between the county courts of the counties comprising t…

(1) In addition to the other powers and duties conferred and imposed upon a public health officer in this act, the officer, in person or through the other officers and employees of the department, shall have and exercise the following powers and duties:(1) To administer and enfor…

(a) Within thirty (30) days after the entry of an order by the county court to establish and maintain a county or district health department, the county court or courts, as the case may be, shall proceed to organize the department by the appointment of a county or district board …

(a) (1) Each board shall, at its organizational meeting, elect from its members a president and such other officers as it shall determine.(2) The public health officer of the county or district health department, as provided in this act, may serve as secretary, in the discretion …

(a) In addition to all other powers and duties conferred and imposed upon county and district boards of health by the provisions of this act, the boards shall have and exercise the following specific powers and duties:(1) To provide, equip, and maintain suitable offices and all n…

(a) Within thirty (30) days after the entry of an order by the city council of a city of twenty-five thousand (25,000) or more, according to the most recent federal census, to establish and maintain a city health department, the city council shall proceed to organize a health dep…

The prosecuting attorney of the judicial circuits, his deputy, or the city attorney, the case as may be, shall, without fee or reward, advise and give legal assistance to the public health officer and the county, district, or city board of health and shall bring any civil or crim…

Those employees of city and county health offices who are occupying state-authorized positions and are being paid by the Department of Health from either state or federal funds shall be deemed to be state employees under the full direction and supervision of the Department of Hea…

(a) (1) In addition to any and all other appropriations made for the State Board of Health, there may be made an appropriation which shall be known as the “County Organization of State Aid Fund”, which shall be expended exclusively for this purpose.(2) The fund shall be available…