§ 20-57-202 - Public Health Advisory Board -- Creation.
20-57-202. Public Health Advisory Board -- Creation.
(a) There is created the Public Health Advisory Board to be composed of nine (9) members to be selected as provided in this section.
(b) (1) The advisory board shall be advisory to the Division of Sanitarian Services for the purpose of recommending rules and regulations concerning food and other health code standards within the food service industry.
(2) The State Board of Health shall not adopt rules or regulations concerning food service or other health code standards related to the food service industry until the rules or regulations have been reviewed by the advisory board in a regularly called or specially called meeting. However, if a meeting is not held within forty-five (45) days after a written notice by the state board of intent to promulgate rules and regulations, the review by the advisory board will be deemed to be waived.
(3) The Director of the Department of Health, or the state board, or both, may adopt rules and regulations pertaining to the food service industry in times of emergency or natural disaster without notice to the advisory board.
(c) (1) Three (3) of the members of the advisory board shall be appointed by the Governor from the food service industry, one (1) member shall be appointed by the Governor from the grocery industry, one (1) member shall be appointed by the Governor from the oil marketing industry, and three (3) members shall be appointed by the Governor from the division who shall be the Director of Sanitarian Services, the Food Service Sanitarian Program Administrator, and one (1) area Sanitarian Supervisor. One (1) member shall be appointed by the Governor who shall be a physician with the Department of Health.
(2) Members of the advisory board who represent the food service industry, the grocery industry, and the oil marketing industry shall be appointed for terms of six (6) years, and they shall hold office until the appointment and qualification of their successors.
(d) Advisory board members may receive expense reimbursement in accordance with 25-16-901 et seq.