212.784 Jurisdiction and powers of board.
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(1)Independent district departments of health shall be governed by an independent
district board of health which shall be a body politic and corporate. The board shall
have jurisdiction throughout the counties, including within all municipalities of the
counties with respect to and in accordance with the provisions of KRS 212.780 to
212.794. The board may, in its corporate name, sue and be sued, contract and be
contracted with, acquire real, personal, and mixed property by deed, purchase, gift,
devise, lease, or otherwise, and mortgage, pledge, sell, convey, or otherwise dispose
of same. The board may make appropriate rules and regulations and do all things
reasonable or necessary in order to carry out the work and to properly perform the
duties intended as required under the provisions of KRS 212.780 to 212.794, except
that the board shall not adopt, unless otherwise provided by law, rules and
regulations in conflict with state laws or administrative regulations. The title to all
property acquired for purposes of KRS 212.780 to 212.794 whether real, personal,
and mixed, or whether acquired by deed, gift, purchase, devise, or otherwise, shall
vest in the board and shall be exempt from taxation. When and after the board and
department established under the provisions of KRS 212.782 are organized, and
except as otherwise provided herein, the board and department shall succeed to and
be vested with all of the functions, obligations, powers, duties, immunities, and
privileges now being exercised by the district board of health and district
department of health, and thereupon the district board of health and district
department of health shall cease to exist and all laws and amendments to any such
laws, relating to and governing the district board of health and district department of
health, in conflict with the provisions of KRS 212.780 to 212.794 shall, to the
extent of such conflict, stand and be repealed.
(2)When an independent district board of health is created pursuant to KRS 212.782,
all powers and duties of the previous district board of health and local boards of
health, except as otherwise provided in KRS 212.780 to 212.794, are transferred to
the newly created independent district board of health and independent district
department of health. Independent district boards of health and independent district
departments of health established under KRS 212.782 shall succeed to and be
vested with all the functions, powers, obligations, duties, immunities, and privileges
exercised by a district health department and local board of health.