2009 Missouri Revised Statutes
Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 192 Department of Health and Senior Services
192.280. Duties of county health officer--neglect, penalty--removal.
Duties of county health officer--neglect, penalty--removal.
192.280. It shall be the duty of the county health officers to enforce the rules and regulations of the department of health and senior services throughout their respective counties outside of incorporated cities which maintain a health officer. The health officers for incorporated cities of less than seventy-five thousand population shall enforce the rules and regulations of the department of health and senior services within their respective cities. Any county health officer who neglects or refuses to perform his duties as required by this chapter shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. In case of dereliction of duty or refusal to act on the part of the county health officer of any county, the department of health and senior services may at its discretion declare the office of county health officer for that county vacant.
(RSMo 1939 § 9746, A. 1949 S.B. 1051)Prior revisions: 1929 § 9027; 1919 § 5783
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