(a) There is created the Public Health Advisory Board to be composed of nine (9) members to be selected as provided in this section.
(b) (1) The Public Health Advisory Board shall be advisory to the Division of Sanitarian Services for the purpose of recommending rules and regulations concerning food and other health code standards within the food service industry.
(2) The State Board of Health shall not adopt rules or regulations concerning food service or other health code standards related to the food service industry until the rules or regulations have been reviewed by the Public Health Advisory Board in a regularly called or specially called meeting. However, if a meeting is not held within forty-five (45) days after a written notice by the State Board of Health of intent to promulgate rules and regulations, the review by the Public Health Advisory Board will be deemed to be waived.
(3) The Director of the Department of Health, or the State Board of Health, or both, may adopt rules and regulations pertaining to the food service industry in times of emergency or natural disaster without notice to the Public Health Advisory Board.
(c) (1) Three (3) of the members of the Public Health Advisory Board shall be appointed by the Governor from the food service industry, one (1) member shall be appointed by the Governor from the grocery industry, one (1) member shall be appointed by the Governor from the oil marketing industry, and three (3) members shall be appointed by the Governor from the division who shall be the Director of the Division of Environmental Health Protection of the Department of Health, the Food Service Sanitarian Program Administrator, and one (1) area Sanitarian Supervisor. One (1) member shall be appointed by the Governor who shall be a physician with the Department of Health.
(2) Members of the Public Health Advisory Board who represent the food service industry, the grocery industry, and the oil marketing industry shall be appointed for terms of six (6) years, and they shall hold office until the appointment and qualification of their successors.
(d) Public Health Advisory Board members may receive expense reimbursement in accordance with ยง 25-16-901 et seq.
Section: 20-57-202 20-57-203 20-57-204 20-57-205 20-57-206 20-57-207 20-57-208 NextLast modified: November 15, 2016