2014 Kentucky Revised Statutes CHAPTER 212 - LOCAL HEALTH PROGRAMS 212.210 Powers and duties of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services and local health boards.
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212.210 Powers and duties of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services and
local health boards.
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The Cabinet for Health and Family Services and the local boards of health may
examine into all nuisances, sources of filth, and causes of sickness that may, in
their opinion, be injurious to the health of the inhabitants in any county in this
state, or in any vessel within any harbor or port in any county in this state.
Whenever any such nuisance, source of filth, or cause of sickness is found to
exist on any private property, or in any vessel within any port or harbor in any
county in this state, or upon any watercourse in this state, the Cabinet for
Health and Family Services or the local board of health may order, in writing,
the owner or occupant thereof, at his own expense, to remove the same within
twenty-four (24) hours, or within such reasonable time thereafter as the board
may order.
If drinking water used by school children is found to be dangerous to their
health, the local board of health or Cabinet for Health and Family Services may
order that a supply of pure water be furnished at the expense of the county or
city board of education.
If in the opinion of the local board of health or Cabinet for Health and Family
Services a school building is constructed in violation of law and is found to be
unsanitary or unsafe for the housing of children, the local board of health or
Cabinet for Health and Family Services may institute an action in the Circuit
Court of the county where the building is situated, and the court, after due
hearing and verifying the facts, may order a safe and sanitary school building
to be erected within a reasonable time by the county or city board of education
in accordance with the laws of the state governing the erection of
schoolhouses and the control of disease, and the rules and regulations of the
Cabinet for Health and Family Services.
Any local board of health shall, for the purpose of controlling and eradicating
rats and other unsanitary nuisances, require the owner or possessor of any
building designed for human habitation and containing two (2) or more
apartment units, to provide, where a specific area has been designated for the
depositing of refuse on the premises, waste receptacles approved by the
board. The board may further require that the design, construction, and
maintenance of the area in which the waste receptacles are kept meet
reasonable standards set by the board.
Effective:June 20, 2005
History: Amended 2005 Ky. Acts ch. 99, sec. 402, effective June 20, 2005. -Amended 1998 Ky. Acts ch. 426, sec. 353, effective July 15, 1998. -- Amended
1974 Ky. Acts ch. 74, Art. VI, sec. 107(3). -- Amended 1970 Ky. Acts ch. 281,
sec. 1. -- Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942,
from Ky. Stat. secs. 2054a-14, 2057.
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