212.782 Establishment of independent district board of health and independent
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district department of health.
(1)An independent district board of health and an independent district department of
health may be established in areas where an existing district board of health and
district department of health includes counties which are a part of an interstate MSA
where the Kentucky population of the interstate MSA exceeds two hundred fifty
thousand (250,000) people on July 1, 1989, as estimated by annual population
estimates by the United States Bureau of the Census.
(2)The county fiscal courts of any county within an area may by resolution of the
respective fiscal courts, passed by a majority vote of the members present, unite the
counties to create, establish, maintain, and operate an independent district
department of health as defined in KRS 212.780. Each fiscal court shall provide for
its proportion of the cost for the creation, establishment, maintenance, and operation
of the department by resolution.