Arkansas Code Title 14, Subtitle 16, Chapter 262 - Local Health Authorities

• § 14-262-101 - Penalties.
  (a) Every firm, person, or corporation violating any of the provisions of this chapter, or any of the orders, rules, or regulations made and...
• § 14-262-102 - City Board of Health.
  (a) A city of the first class or city of the second class may establish a city board of health to be constituted as...
• § 14-262-103 - City Health Officer.
  (a) The office of city health officer may be created by the governing body of a city of the first class, city of the...
• § 14-262-104 - County Health Officer.
  (a) The office of county health officer is created in each county within the state.(b) The State Board of Health, upon recommendation of the...
• § 14-262-105 - Expenses and Claims.
  (a) All expenses legally incurred for the work of protecting the public health outside of cities and towns shall be paid by the county...
• § 14-262-106 - County or District Health Departments -- Establishment.
  (a) Any county may, by proper order of the county court, establish and maintain a county health department.(b) Any two (2) or more counties...
• § 14-262-107 - County or District Health Departments -- Jurisdiction.
  (a) The jurisdiction of any county or district health department shall extend over all unincorporated areas and over all municipal corporations within the territorial...
• § 14-262-108 - County or District Health Departments -- Personnel.
  (a) The administrative and executive head of each county and district health department shall be a public health officer, which office is created by...
• § 14-262-109 - County or District Health Departments -- Powers and Duties.
  (a) Each county and district health department shall have and exercise, in addition to all other powers and duties imposed upon it by law,...
• § 14-262-110 - County or District Health Departments -- Dissolution.
  (a) Any county or district health department may be dissolved by a referendum initiated by petition or submitted by vote as prescribed in §...
• § 14-262-111 - County or District Health Departments -- Joining or Withdrawing.
  (a) (1) Any county adjacent to a district maintaining a district health department may, with the approval of the State Board of Health, become...
• § 14-262-112 - Public Health Officers -- Powers and Duties.
  In addition to the other powers and duties conferred and imposed upon a public health officer in this act, the officer, in person or...
• § 14-262-113 - County or District Boards of Health -- Appointment.
  (a) Within thirty (30) days after the entry of an order by the county court to establish and maintain a county or district health...
• § 14-262-114 - County or District Boards of Health -- Meetings -- Compensation.
  (a) (1) Each board shall, at its organizational meeting, elect from its members a president and such other officers as it shall determine. (2)...
• § 14-262-115 - County or District Boards of Health -- Powers and Duties.
  (a) In addition to all other powers and duties conferred and imposed upon county and district boards of health by the provisions of this...
• § 14-262-116 - City Health Department in Cities With a Population of 25,000 or More -- City Board of Health -- City Health Officer.
  (a) Within thirty (30) days after the entry of an order by the city council of a city of twenty-five thousand (25,000) or more,...
• § 14-262-117 - Legal Action and Adviser.
  The prosecuting attorney of the judicial circuits, his deputy, or the city attorney, the case as may be, shall, without fee or reward, advise...
• § 14-262-118 - Employment Status.
  Those employees of city and county health offices who are occupying state-authorized positions and are being paid by the Department of Health from either...
• § 14-262-119 - County Organization of State Aid Fund.
  (a) (1) In addition to any and all other appropriations made for the State Board of Health, there may be made an appropriation which...

Last modified: November 15, 2016