212.627 Urban-county department of health and board of health -- Establishment -- Jurisdiction -- Powers and duties. - Kentucky Statutes

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212.627 Urban-county department of health and board of health -- Establishment -- Jurisdiction -- Powers and duties. In each county of the Commonwealth containing any city with a population of over
100,000 at the time of merger creating an urban-county form of government, there is
hereby established an urban-county department of health which shall be known as the
"(name of city) - (name of county) Urban-County Department of Health." The department
when established shall be governed by a board which shall be a body politic and
corporate, and shall be known as the "(name of city) - (name of county) Urban-County
Board of Health." The board shall have jurisdiction throughout the county, including
within all municipalities of the county with respect to and in accordance with the
provisions of KRS 212.626 to 212.639. 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 212.626 to 212.639. The title to all
property acquired for purposes of KRS 212.626 to 212.639 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 212.626 to 212.639 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 and privileges now being exercised by the
city-county board of health and city-county department of health, and thereupon the city-
county board of health and city-county department of health shall cease to exist and all
laws and amendments to any such laws, relating to and governing the city-county board
of health and city-county department of health, in conflict with the provisions of KRS
212.626 to 212.639 shall, to the extent of such conflict, stand and be repealed. Effective: July 1, 1977
History: Created 1976 Ky. Acts ch. 347, sec. 2, effective July 1, 1977.