39-409 DISTRICT HEALTH DEPARTMENTS -- ESTABLISHMENT -- SERVICES. - Idaho Statutes

TITLE 39

HEALTH AND SAFETY

CHAPTER 4

PUBLIC HEALTH DISTRICTS

39-409. District health departments -- Establishment -- Services. There is hereby created and established in each of the above described public health districts a district health department, hereinafter referred to as the district health department. The district health department shall have as its head the district board of health.

The district health department will provide the basic health services of public health education, physical health, environmental health, and public health administration, but this listing shall not be construed to restrict the service programs of the district health department solely to these categories. Each district shall have a doctor of medicine licensed in Idaho as a staff member or as a regular consultant.