Title XVIII, Public Health

Compensation -- Removal of board members. (1) The secretary of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services shall appoint, from a list of nominees, three (3) qualified, licensed, and practicing physicians; one (1) qualified, licensed, and practicing dentist; one (1) qualified, lice…

charge fees for nursing care and health services. (1) The Cabinet for Health and Family Services and any local health department, with the approval of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services, is hereby authorized to provide home nursing care services and other health services …

The fiscal court of any county may by resolution at a regular session declare that the county shall be a district for the creation, establishment and maintenance of a county health department. Upon the resolution being passed, the fiscal court shall at once, out of the funds of t…

When a county by a vote of its citizens, as provided in KRS 212.070 to 212.110, shall vote against creating, establishing and maintaining a county department of health, the department of health may not be created, established or maintained by resolution of its fiscal court until …

If the fiscal court of any county fails to establish a county department of health, as authorized in KRS 212.040, the citizens of the county may have such county established as a county department of health in accordance with the provisions of KRS 212.080.

A number of legal voters equal to ten percent (10%) of the total number of votes cast at the last general election of any county may file their petition with the county judge/executive asking that the proposition of creating, establishing and maintaining a county health departmen…

The result of any county election for the creation, establishment and maintenance of a county department of health shall be certified to the fiscal court of the county in which the department is to be created, established and maintained. The fiscal court shall, if the result of t…

Allocation of state funds to districts -- Equalization of allotments -- Modification and cancellation of allotments -- Appropriations not to lapse. (1) Upon the creation of a county health department, the fiscal court of the county shall at once notify the Cabinet for Health and …

Immediately after receiving notice of the creation of a county or district department of health, the Cabinet for Health and Family Services shall notify the secretary of the county board or boards of health to call a meeting of the county board or boards of health for the purpose…

ceases operation or one or more counties withdraw from district. (1) If a district health department established pursuant to this chapter ceases to operate or has a county or counties withdraw from the district health department, the Department for Public Health in the Cabinet fo…

A county department of health shall be governed by the members of the county board of health.

The county board of health of each county having a county department of health, and the governing body of each district department of health, shall provide an office suitably furnished for its meetings and for the conduct of its business, and conveniently located as determined by…

(1) The county board of health of each county having a county department of health shall, subject to the approval of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services, appoint a health officer who shall, subject to merit system provisions, hold office at the pleasure of both the county …

Every health officer provided for by this chapter shall be a duly licensed physician and shall possess such other qualifications that are prescribed by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services.

(1) The health officer of counties that do not have a county department of health shall receive a reasonable compensation, the amount of which shall be fixed by the fiscal court at the time of, or immediately after, his election, and to be paid as other county officers are paid. …

health boards. (1) The Cabinet for Health and Family Services and the local boards of health may examine into all nuisances, sources of filth, and causes of sickness that may, in their opinion, be injurious to the health of the inhabitants in any county in this state, or in any v…

(1) County, city-county, and district boards of health shall: (a) Appoint a health officer and fix his salary subject to the approval of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; (b) Hold a regular meeting at least once every three (3) months, except that county or city-county …

County departments of health shall: (1) Administer and enforce in the county and in all cities and towns situated therein, except as otherwise provided by law, all applicable public health laws of the Commonwealth and all of the rules and regulations of the secretary of the Cabin…

County, city-county, and district health departments may: (1) Utilize available services, facilities, equipment, and personnel of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services or of the United States Public Health Service upon such terms of payment or reimbursement as are agreed on …

(1) The health officer of a county that does not have a county department of health shall enforce the rules and regulations of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services and county boards of health. (2) The health officer of a county that has formed a county department of health …

boards of health. The county and Commonwealth's attorneys and the Attorney General, within their respective jurisdictions, shall represent the Cabinet for Health and Family Services and local boards of health in all matters relating to the enforcement of the health and medical la…

advanced practice registered nurse or registered nurse -- Written policy -- Record of prescription drugs -- Responsibility for inventory -- Pharmacist -- Dispensing medication or device prescribed for purpose of causing abortion. (1) The governing board for each local, district, …

As used in KRS 212.343 to 212.347, unless the text requires otherwise: (1) "Sterilization" shall mean any procedure or operation, the purpose of which is to render an individual permanently incapable of reproducing. (2) "Nontherapeutic sterilization" shall mean any procedure or o…

Any physician who is requested to perform a nontherapeutic sterilization shall provide counseling to the person who requests the sterilization.

Before any person in the Commonwealth may have a nontherapeutic sterilization performed upon himself, he shall give written informed consent to the performance of the sterilization. To be valid such consent document shall be endorsed by the following persons in the following inst…

No physician shall perform a nontherapeutic sterilization on any person before twenty- four (24) hours following the giving of written informed consent by the person requesting such sterilization.

containing such cities -- Corporate powers -- Abolishment of former health agencies -- Effect of compact -- Application upon establishment of consolidated local government. (1) In each county of the Commonwealth of Kentucky in which there is located a city of the first class or a…

consolidated local government board -- Extension of control of board to other divisions and institutions. (1) All property, real, personal, and mixed, belonging to such county or city and now being used exclusively and directly by and for the county board of health of such county…

When the board has been organized and the properties transferred, as provided in KRS 212.350 to 212.620, the board, throughout said county, including all municipalities therein, shall, except as otherwise provided by law, have exclusive control and operation, under the acts of th…

by city-county boards of health. City-county boards of health established by KRS 212.350 and operating hospitals and clinics may establish schedules of fees and charges for services rendered therein or thereby and may recover such fees and charges from any person who receives suc…

In establishing such schedules the board may make reasonable classifications based upon the financial ability of persons to pay and may vary the charge in accordance with such classifications but no fees or charges shall in any event exceed the approximate cost of rendering the s…

Such boards may likewise recover the charges so established from the spouse of any person receiving said services or from the parent of such person who is a minor if such spouse or parent has the financial ability to pay.

Subrogation. Such boards may likewise recover such fees and charges from any person, firm or corporation legally liable to the person receiving said services for such charges and shall be subrogated to the rights of the person receiving such services to the extent of such charges…

The burden of proving lack of financial ability to pay shall be upon the person claiming such lack.

treatment. No person brought to any such hospital for emergency treatment shall be denied admission on account of his financial condition nor shall the administration of emergency treatment to such person be delayed on account thereof.

establishment of consolidated local government. (1) Except in a county containing a consolidated local government, said board shall be composed of ten (10) members, two (2) of whom shall be the mayor of such city, and the county judge/executive of such county, as members ex offic…

(1) Any vacancy on the board occurring by reason of death, resignation, disqualification, removal, or otherwise, of any appointive member shall be filled in the same manner as the original appointment for the balance of the term of the member whose place is so vacated. The appoin…

Each member of the board, except members ex officio, shall receive the sum of fifty dollars ($50) for each meeting of the board attended by such member; provided, however, that no member of said board shall be paid more than six hundred dollars ($600) during any fiscal year of th…

Meetings -- Employees -- Divisions. The appointive members of the board, upon appointment as herein provided, shall qualify by taking the necessary oath of office before the county judge/executive. Said board, including the ex officio members who shall have the right to vote on m…

The director of health may be a physician, qualified as a public health administrator and licensed or eligible for license as a medical practitioner in the Commonwealth of Kentucky, or may be a nonphysician with a minimum of a master's degree in public health or a related field a…

(1) The board shall fix the compensation of all agents and employees of the board, and such compensation shall be as nearly comparable as practicable with the compensations paid and received by corresponding or comparable civil employees of such city or county. (2) The agents and…

Notwithstanding the provisions of KRS 61.510 to 61.705 (Chapter 110, 1956 Acts of the General Assembly of Kentucky and amendments thereto) and KRS 78.510 to 78.852, on July 1, 1962, all regular full-time present and future public health employees of any joint city-county health d…

All regular full-time public health employees of any joint city-county health department located in a county containing a city of the first class shall be given credit for any prior service with such department before July 1, 1956, but any such regular full-time public health emp…

It shall be the responsibility of all joint city-county health departments in counties containing cities of the first class to pay the employer's and employee's share into the state retirement fund.

(1) When the board has qualified and organized as herein provided, the employees of the department of public health of such city, and the employees of the county health department of such county, at that time in their employ, shall be transferred to and continued in the service o…

vote. The board shall not incur nor permit the incurrence of any indebtedness, in any manner or for any purpose, in an amount exceeding, in any fiscal year of the board, the income and revenue provided for the year through the appropriations provided for in KRS 212.470 for the pu…

All work done or supplies or materials purchased in carrying out the purpose of KRS 212.350 to 212.620, when involving an expenditure of one thousand dollars ($1,000) or more, shall be by contract awarded to the lowest and best bidder after advertisement by publication pursuant t…

In order to provide sufficient funds for carrying out the purposes of KRS 212.350 to 212.620, the fiscal court of the county shall annually appropriate money from the general fund of the county and the legislative body of the city shall annually appropriate money from the general…

The board shall annually select a bank, or banks, or banking institutions for the current deposit of the board's funds for the current operating expenses and which bank, or banks or banking institutions shall give and maintain a bond, or bonds, or other form of security to be app…

(1) The board may receive and accept specific gifts, donations, contributions or endowments, the principal or income from which, as the case may be, shall be used for a specific purpose other than the ordinary and regular operating costs and expenses, and the board is hereby auth…