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210.380 Community mental health-mental retardation board -- Establishment -- Membership.

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210.380 Community mental health-mental retardation board -- Establishment -- Membership. Every combination of cities and counties establishing a regional community mental health <br>and mental retardation services program shall, before it comes within the provisions of <br>KRS 210.370 to 210.460, establish a community mental health-mental retardation board <br>consisting of at least nine (9) members. When a nonprofit corporation is the administrator <br>of such a program not established by a combination of either cities or counties, such <br>corporation shall select a community mental health-mental retardation board which shall <br>be representative of the groups herein enumerated, but the number of members need not <br>be nine (9). When any combination of cities and counties establishes a regional <br>community mental health and mental retardation services program, the chief executive <br>officer of each participating city or county shall appoint two (2) members to a selecting <br>committee which shall select the members of the board. Membership of the community <br>mental health-mental retardation boards shall be representative of the elected chief <br>executives of county governments, local health departments, medical societies, county <br>welfare boards, hospital boards, lay associations concerned with mental health and mental <br>retardation as well as labor, business and civic groups and the general public. Effective: June 17, 1978 <br>History: Amended 1978 Ky. Acts ch. 396, sec. 2, effective June 17, 1978. -- Amended 1976 Ky. Acts ch. 328, sec. 10. -- Amended 1968 Ky. Acts ch. 90, sec. 64(3). -- <br>Created 1964 Ky. Acts ch. 79, sec. 6. Formerly codified as KRS 203.420.