212.855 Members of district board of health -- Appointment -- Terms.
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<![CDATA[212.855 Members of district board of health -- Appointment -- Terms. (1) Except for district health departments which serve a county containing a city of the first class, an urban-county government, or which are part of an interstate <br>metropolitan statistical area where the Kentucky population of the metropolitan <br>statistical area exceeded two hundred fifty thousand (250,000) people on July 1, <br>1989, a district board of health shall consist of the following members: <br>(a) The county judge/executive or his designee from each county in the district as an ex officio voting member; and (b) One (1) additional resident member per county per fifteen thousand (15,000) population or fraction thereof, which shall include the mayor, city manager, or <br>the designee of the city manager of each city of the second class as an ex <br>officio voting member, except that the total number of members from any <br>county in a district shall not exceed seven (7) members. (2) All members except for the county judges/executive and the mayors of second class cities shall be appointed by the county or city-county boards of health from the <br>membership of each county or city-county board of health. <br>(a) The secretary of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services shall notify the chairman of each county or city-county board of health in the district of the <br>name of each member from that county whose term is expiring. (b) Upon receipt of the notification, under paragraph (a) of this subsection, each county or city-county board of health shall appoint one (1) of its members to <br>fill each vacant position from that county. At least twenty-five percent (25%) <br>or the nearest whole number to twenty-five percent (25%) of the appointed <br>members of the district board shall be doctors of medicine or osteopathy <br>qualified, licensed, and practicing in the Commonwealth, and there shall be at <br>least one (1) qualified, licensed, and practicing registered nurse, one (1) <br>qualified, licensed, and practicing dentist, one (1) licensed pharmacist, one (1) <br>qualified licensed engineer engaged in the practice of civil or sanitary <br>engineering, one (1) qualified, licensed, and practicing optometrist, and one <br>(1) qualified, licensed, and practicing veterinarian, when available, among the <br>membership of the board. The remaining members of the district board shall <br>be concerned community leaders residing within the county from which they <br>are to be representatives. (c) The chairman of the county or city-county board of health shall inform the secretary within forty-five (45) days of receipt of this notification of the names <br>of the county or city-county board of health members appointed to serve on <br>the district board. Appointed members of district boards of health shall not <br>begin to serve on a district board of health until the time the secretary has <br>certified their eligibility to serve on the board. (3) If a vacancy exists upon the district board, the vacancy shall be filled in a manner consistent with subsection (2) of this section, with the appointed member to fill the <br>vacant seat coming from the county in which the vacancy occurs and the appointed <br>member resides. If the term of a member on the county board of health expires or the member cannot complete the term on the county board, the seat on the district <br>board of health shall be declared vacant and the county or city-county board of <br>health shall appoint another of its members to fill any unexpired portion of the term <br>on the district board. (4) The appointed members of the district board of health shall hold office for a term of two (2) years ending on December 31 or until their successors are appointed. The <br>terms of the first appointments shall be staggered so that members whose terms <br>expire on June 30, 1992, shall be replaced with appointed members whose terms <br>expire on December 31, 1994. Members whose terms expire on June 30, 1993, shall <br>be replaced with appointed members whose terms expire on December 31, 1995. (5) The secretary shall remove any appointed member who fails to attend three (3) consecutive scheduled meetings. Effective: June 20, 2005 <br>History: Amended 2005 Ky. Acts ch. 99, sec. 424, effective June 20, 2005. -- Amended 2002 Ky. Acts ch. 80, sec. 7, effective July 15, 2002. -- Amended 1998 Ky. Acts <br>ch. 426, sec. 375, effective July 15, 1998. -- Amended 1994 Ky. Acts ch. 462, sec. 2, <br>effective July 15, 1994. </p>
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