212.855 Members of district board of health -- Appointment -- Terms.
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(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
metropolitan statistical area where the Kentucky population of the metropolitan
statistical area exceeded two hundred fifty thousand (250,000) people on July 1,
1989, a district board of health shall consist of the following members:
(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
the designee of the city manager of each city with a population equal to or
greater than fifteen thousand (15,000) based upon the most recent federal
decennial census as an ex officio voting member, except that the total number
of members from any county in a district shall not exceed seven
(7)members.
(2)All members, except for the county judges/executive and the mayors of cities
serving pursuant to subsection
(1)of this section, shall be appointed by the county
or city-county boards of health from the membership of each county or city-county
board of health.
(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
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
fill each vacant position from that county. At least twenty-five percent (25%)
or the nearest whole number to twenty-five percent (25%) of the appointed
members of the district board shall be doctors of medicine or osteopathy
qualified, licensed, and practicing in the Commonwealth, and there shall be at
least one
(1)qualified, licensed, and practicing registered nurse, one
qualified, licensed, and practicing dentist, one
(1)licensed pharmacist, one
qualified licensed engineer engaged in the practice of civil or sanitary
engineering, one
(1)qualified, licensed, and practicing optometrist, and one
(1)qualified, licensed, and practicing veterinarian, when available, among the
membership of the board. The remaining members of the district board shall
be concerned community leaders residing within the county from which they
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
of the county or city-county board of health members appointed to serve on
the district board. Appointed members of district boards of health shall not
begin to serve on a district board of health until the time the secretary has
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
vacant seat coming from the county in which the vacancy occurs and the appointed
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
board of health shall be declared vacant and the county or city-county board of
health shall appoint another of its members to fill any unexpired portion of the term
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
terms of the first appointments shall be staggered so that members whose terms
expire on June 30, 1992, shall be replaced with appointed members whose terms
expire on December 31, 1994. Members whose terms expire on June 30, 1993, shall
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
consecutive scheduled meetings.