WEST virginia legislature

2018 regular session

Introduced

House Bill 4306

By Delegates Summers, Rohrbach, Barrett And Blair

[Introduced January 26, 2018; Referred
to the Committee on Political Subdivisions then Health and Human Resources.]

A BILL to amend and reenact §16-2-5 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to permitting local boards of health to combine without approval from the Commissioner of the Bureau for Public Health.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

ARTICLE 2. LOCAL BOARDS OF HEALTH.

§16-2-5. Authority to create, establish and maintain combined local boards of health; service area.

Any two or more counties or any county or counties and one or more municipalities within or partially within the county or counties may combine to create, establish and maintain a combined local board of health organized pursuant to and with the powers and duties prescribed by this article. The plan of combination must be approved by the commissioner The service area of any combined local board of health is the combined territorial limits of the participating municipality or municipalities and county or counties: Provided, That if all or a portion of a participating municipality is located in a nonparticipating county, the service area of the combined local board of health is limited to the territorial limits of the municipality and does not extend to or include any area of the nonparticipating county outside of the municipal limits: Provided, however, That the service area of a combined local board does not extend to or include any area within the service area of a municipal board of health maintaining a separate full-time municipal health department under the supervision of a municipal local health officer.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to permit local boards of health to combine without approval of the Commissioner for the Bureau for Public Health.

Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.