Ohio Revised Code Chapter 3709 - Health Districts

• Section 3709.01 - Health Districts.
  The state shall be divided into health districts. Each city constitutes a health district and shall be known as a "city health district." The...
• Section 3709.02 - Board Of Health Of General Health District - Term - Expenses - Vacancies - Quorum.
  (A) In each general health district there shall be a board of health consisting of five members to be appointed as provided in section...
• Section 3709.03 - General Health District Advisory Council.
  (A) There is hereby created in each general health district a district advisory council. A council shall consist of the president of the board...
• Section 3709.04 - Director Of Health May Appoint Board For General Health District.
  If in any general health district the district advisory council fails to meet or to select a board of health, the director of health...
• Section 3709.05 - City Health District Board - Compensation, Term.
  (A) Unless an administration of public health different from that specifically provided in this section is established and maintained under authority of its charter,...
• Section 3709.051 - Formation Of Single City Health District From Two Or More Districts.
  Two or more city health districts may be united to form a single city health district by a majority affirmative vote of the legislative...
• Section 3709.052 - Contract For Administration Of Public Health Affairs In Combined District.
  When a majority of the members of the legislative authority or a majority of the electors of each city have voted affirmatively, the chief...
• Section 3709.06 - Director Of Health May Appoint Health Commissioner For City.
  If any city fails to establish a board of health under section 3709.05 of the Revised Code, the director of health may appoint a...
• Section 3709.07 - Union Of City With General Health Districts.
  Except as provided in section 3709.071 of the Revised Code, when it is proposed that one or more city health districts unite with a...
• Section 3709.071 - Election For Union Into Single General Health District.
  If at least three per cent of the qualified electors residing within each of one or more city health districts and a general health...
• Section 3709.08 - Contract Between Boards Of Health.
  (A) A board of health of a city or general health district or the authority having the duties of a board of health under...
• Section 3709.081 - [Repealed].
  Repealed by 129th General AssemblyFile No.141, HB 509, §2, eff. 9/28/2012. Effective Date: 11-24-1967
• Section 3709.085 - Contracts For Enforcement Services For Air Pollution Control Or Supervision Of Sewage Disposal Systems.
  (A) The board of health of a city or general health district may enter into a contract with any political subdivision or other governmental...
• Section 3709.09 - Board Of Health To Establish Uniform System Of Fees; Adoption Of Rules.
  (A) The board of health of a city or general health district may, by rule, establish a uniform system of fees to pay the...
• Section 3709.091 - Failure To Pay Household Sewage Disposal System Permit Or Inspection Fee.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Household sewage treatment system" means any sewage treatment system, or part of such a system, for a...
• Section 3709.092 - Transmission Of Fees.
  (A) A board of health of a city or general health district shall transmit to the director of health all fees or additional amounts...
• Section 3709.10 - Union Of General Health Districts.
  When it is proposed that two or more general health districts unite in the formation of one general health district, the district advisory council...
• Section 3709.11 - Organization Of Board Of General Health District - Appointment Of Health Commissioner - Duties.
  Within thirty days after the appointment of the members of the board of health in a general health district, they shall organize by selecting...
• Section 3709.12 - President Pro Tempore Of Board Of City Health District - Meetings.
  The board of health in a city health district shall elect one of its number president pro tempore, who shall preside in the absence...
• Section 3709.13 - Appointment Of Clerk, Nurses, Physicians, And Others By Board Of General Health District.
  In any general health district the board of health may, upon the recommendation of the health commissioner, appoint for full or part time service...
• Section 3709.14 - Appointment Of Health Commissioner, Clerks, Nurses, Physicians, And Others By Board Of City Health District.
  In any city health district, the board of health or person performing the duties of a board of health shall appoint for full or...
• Section 3709.15 - Appointing Sanitarians And Nurses.
  The board of health of a city or general health district may appoint as many persons for sanitary duty as the public health and...
• Section 3709.16 - Board Determines Duties And Salaries Of Employees - Employee Insurance.
  The board of health of a city or general health district shall determine the duties and fix the salaries of its employees. No member...
• Section 3709.161 - Liability Insurance.
  (A) The board of health of a city or general health district may procure a policy or policies of insurance insuring the members of...
• Section 3709.17 - Travel Expense Outside District.
  When it is necessary for an employee of a board of health of a city or general health district to travel outside the district,...
• Section 3709.18 - Infant Welfare Stations And Prenatal Clinics.
  The board of health of a city or general health district may provide such infant welfare stations, prenatal clinics, and other measures for the...
• Section 3709.19 - Record Of Proceedings And Record Of Diseases - Quarterly Activity Reports.
  The secretary of the board of health of a city or general health district shall keep a complete and accurate record of the proceedings...
• Section 3709.20 - Orders And Regulations Of Board Of City Health District - Hearing Referees Or Examiners.
  (A) The board of health of a city health district may make such orders and regulations as are necessary for its own government, for...
• Section 3709.21 - Orders And Regulations Of Board Of General Health District.
  The board of health of a general health district may make such orders and regulations as are necessary for its own government, for the...
• Section 3709.211 - Injunctive Or Other Relief.
  When an order of the board of health of a city or general health district made pursuant to section 3709.20 or 3709.21 of the...
• Section 3709.22 - Duties Of Board Of City Or General Health District.
  Each board of health of a city or general health district shall study and record the prevalence of disease within its district and provide...
• Section 3709.23 - Laboratory Work.
  Each board of health of a city or general health district may provide for the carrying on of such laboratory work as is necessary...
• Section 3709.24 - Free Treatment For Venereal Diseases.
  Each board of health of a city or general health district may provide for the free treatment of cases of gonorrhea, syphilis, and chancroid....
• Section 3709.241 - Minor May Give Consent For Diagnosis Or Treatment Of Venereal Disease.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a minor may give consent for the diagnosis or treatment of any venereal disease by a licensed physician....
• Section 3709.25 - Free Distribution Of Antitoxin.
  Each board of health of a city or general health district shall provide for the free distribution of antitoxin for the treatment of cases...
• Section 3709.26 - Inspections Of County Institutions.
  The health commissioner of a city or general health district may make frequent inspection of all county homes, children's homes, workhouses, jails, or other...
• Section 3709.27 - Establishment Of Detention Hospitals.
  The board of health of a city or general health district may establish detention hospitals for cases of communicable diseases and provide for the...
• Section 3709.28 - Apportionment Of Appropriation; Adoption Of Appropriation Measures; Apportionment By County Auditor; District Health Fund.
  (A) If a general health district will receive any part of its revenue for a fiscal year from an appropriation apportioned among the townships...
• Section 3709.281 - Agreement By A Board Of Health To Perform Municipal Services.
  A board of health of a city or general health district may enter into an agreement with the legislative authority of a municipality in...
• Section 3709.282 - Participation And Cooperation By Board Of Health.
  The board of health of any city or general health district may participate in, receive or give financial and other assistance, and cooperate with...
• Section 3709.283 - County Establishing And Operating Any Health Program.
  A board of county commissioners may give or receive financial or other assistance, cooperate with other agencies or organizations, either private or governmental, or...
• Section 3709.29 - Special Levy For General Health Districts.
  If the estimated amount of money necessary to meet the expenses of a general health district program will not be forthcoming to the board...
• Section 3709.30 - Additional Expense In Case Of Epidemic.
  In case of epidemic or threatened epidemic or during the unusual prevalence of a dangerous communicable disease, if the moneys in the district health...
• Section 3709.31 - Custodian Of Health Fund - Auditor - Expenses.
  The treasurer of a city which constitutes a city health district shall be the custodian of the health fund of such city health district....
• Section 3709.32 - Conditions For Payment Of State Health District Subsidy Funds.
  The president of each board of health providing health services in one or more health districts and the chief executive officer of each health...
• Section 3709.33 - Legal Advisor In General Health Districts.
  In general health districts the prosecuting attorney of the county constituting all or a major part of such district shall act as the legal...
• Section 3709.34 - Suitable Quarters Furnished.
  The board of county commissioners or the legislative authority of any city may furnish suitable quarters for any board of health or health department...
• Section 3709.341 - Conveyance Of Property To Board Of Health.
  The board of county commissioners may donate or sell property, buildings, and furnishings to any board of health of a general or combined health...
• Section 3709.35 - Preferment Of Charges Against Health Commissioner Or Member Of Board.
  If the director of health charges that the health commissioner or a member of the board of health of a health district is guilty...
• Section 3709.36 - Board Of Health Of City Or General Health District.
  The board of health of a city or general health district hereby created shall exercise all the powers and perform all the duties formerly...
• Section 3709.37 - Statewide Boards Of Health Association.
  By a majority vote of its members, a board of health of a city or general health district may join a statewide boards of...
• Section 3709.38 - Payment Of Annual Association Dues Of Health Commissioner.
  A board of health of a city or general health district may appropriate from its health fund an amount to pay the annual dues...
• Section 3709.41 - Health District Licensing Council.
  (A) The board of health of each city and of each general health district may establish a health district licensing council, to be appointed...
• Section 3709.99 - Penalty.
  (A) Whoever violates section 3709.20, 3709.21, or 3709.22 of the Revised Code or any order or regulation of the board of health of a...

Last modified: October 10, 2016