KRS 212.020: County health boards -- Appointment -- Membership -- Term --

Compensation -- Removal of board members.

(1) The secretary of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services shall appoint, from a

list of nominees, three (3) qualified, licensed, and practici ng physicians; one (1)

qualified, licensed, and practicing dentist; one (1) qualified, licensed, and practicing

registered nurse; one (1) licensed engineer engaged in the practice of civil or

sanitary engineering; one (1) qualified, licensed, and practicin g optometrist; one (1)

qualified licensed and practicing veterinarian; one (1) licensed pharmacist; and one

(1) lay person knowledgeable in consumer affairs residing in each county who,

together with the county judge/executive and one (1) person appointed by the fiscal

court in each county, shall constitute a local board of health for the respective

counties in which they reside. The list of nominees submitted to the secretary shall

be accepted from any source and shall be solicited and obtained from the co unty

judge/executive, fiscal court, and county health department staff; and nominations

of physicians, dentists, nurses, engineers, optometrists, veterinarians, and

pharmacists shall be solicited and obtained from the county's medical society, dental

society, nursing association, engineering association, optometric association,

veterinarian association, and pharmacists' association, respectively. If a county does

not have three (3) qualified, licensed, and practicing physicians or one (1) qualified,

licensed, and practicing dentist or one (1) qualified, licensed, and practicing

registered nurse or one (1) qualified, licensed, and practicing civil or sanitary

engineer or one (1) qualified, licensed, and practicing optometrist or one (1)

qualified, licensed, a nd practicing veterinarian, or one (1) licensed pharmacist

residing therein, the secretary of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services may

appoint a resident lay person knowledgeable in consumer affairs in lieu thereof for

each such vacancy. The members of the local board shall hold office for a term of

two (2) years with physicians, dentists, pharmacists, and fiscal court appointees

appointed in even -numbered years and nurses, engineers, optometrists,

veterinarians, and lay appointees appointed in odd -numbered years, for terms from

the date of their appointment, beginning on or after January 1, 1993, and until their

successors are appointed, except the terms of the first appointment of all physician

and fiscal court appointee terms beginning on January 1, 1993, shall expire on

December 31, 1993; dentist terms beginning on August 1, 1992, shall expire on

December 31, 1993; nurse, engineer, and optometrist appointments beginning on

August 1, 1992, shall expire on December 31, 1994; and veterinarian and lay

appointments beginning on October 1, 1992, shall expire on December 31, 1994.

The members of the board shall receive no compensation for their services.

(2) The secretary shall remove any member, other than the county judge/executive or

fiscal court appointee, who fails to attend three (3) consecutive scheduled meetings,

and may remove any board member, except the county judge/executive or fiscal

court appointee, as provided by KRS 65.007. The fiscal court may remove its

appointee in like fashion.