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212.370 Powers and duties of city-county board as to public health and institutions.

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212.370 Powers and duties of city-county board as to public health and institutions. When the board has been organized and the properties transferred, as provided in KRS <br>212.350 to 212.620, the board, throughout said county, including all municipalities <br>therein, shall, except as otherwise provided by law, have exclusive control and operation, <br>under the acts of the General Assembly of Kentucky, the ordinances, if any, of the <br>legislative bodies of the municipalities in said county, the orders and resolutions, if any, <br>of the fiscal court of said county, the regulations of the Cabinet for Health and Family <br>Services, and the rules and regulations of the board, of all matters relating to institutions <br>safeguarding the public health, including city or county hospitals, tuberculosis hospitals, <br>eruptive hospitals, chronic hospitals, medical care of the indigent, and all other matters <br>affecting public health, including education of the public regarding such conditions, and <br>the adoption of remedial measures, and the enforcement of all laws and regulations <br>affecting public health, including existing ordinances of such city and, if any, of other <br>municipalities in said county, and any ordinances which may be hereafter enacted by the <br>legislative bodies of such municipalities, including laws and ordinances regulating <br>sanitation, milk inspection, meat inspection, livestock inspection, wells, drinking water <br>and fountains, vaults, vaccination and immunization, quarantine, and the maintenance of <br>laboratories and clinics necessary for the promotion of public health. The board may <br>expend funds for the purpose of conducting research work, including laboratory and <br>biometrical work, and establishing, erecting, and maintaining laboratories and other <br>buildings and all appurtenances thereto for research work as to the prevalence, causes, <br>cure, and prevention of disease, and to that end the board is authorized to expend funds in <br>the employment of such persons or organizations, scientists, or research experts as the <br>board may deem proper. The board shall be charged with the responsibility for the <br>collection from official and other sources and for the publication of such statistics and <br>information as may be useful and necessary for the performance of its duties, and upon <br>such other matters as such municipalities by ordinance and said county, by resolution of <br>the fiscal court, respectively, or the Cabinet for Health and Family Services of Kentucky, <br>by regulation, place under the control of said board. The board may charge reasonable <br>fees to sewage treatment plant operators for the regulation and inspection of sewage <br>treatment plants to be paid within twelve (12) months from the time of regulation and <br>inspection. Effective: June 20, 2005 <br>History: Amended 2005 Ky. Acts ch. 99, sec. 408, effective June 20, 2005. -- Amended 1998 Ky. Acts ch. 426, sec. 359, effective July 15, 1998. -- Amended 1974 Ky. Acts <br>ch. 74, sec. 107(3); and ch. 351, sec. 1. -- Created 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 41, sec. 2