KRS 212.370: Powers and duties of city-county board as to public health and institutions.

When the board has been organized and the properties transferred, as provided in KRS

212.350 to 212.620, the board, throughout said county, including all municipalities

therein, shall, except as otherwise provided by law, have exclusive control and operation,

under the acts of the General Assembly of Kentucky, the ordinances, if any, of the

legislative bodies of the municipalities in said county, the orders and resolutions, if any,

of the fiscal court of said county, the regulations of the Cabinet for Health and Family

Services, and the rules and regulations of the board, of all matters relating to institutions

safeguarding the public health, including city or county hospitals, tuberculosis hospitals,

eruptive hospitals, chronic hospitals, medical care of the indigent, and all other matters

affecting public health, including education of the public regarding such conditions, and

the adoption of remedial measures, and the enforce ment of all laws and regulations

affecting public health, including existing ordinances of such city and, if any, of other

municipalities in said county, and any ordinances which may be hereafter enacted by the

legislative bodies of such municipalities, in cluding laws and ordinances regulating

sanitation, milk inspection, meat inspection, livestock inspection, wells, drinking water

and fountains, vaults, vaccination and immunization, quarantine, and the maintenance of

laboratories and clinics necessary for the promotion of public health. The board may

expend funds for the purpose of conducting research work, including laboratory and

biometrical work, and establishing, erecting, and maintaining laboratories and other

buildings and all appurtenances thereto fo r research work as to the prevalence, causes,

cure, and prevention of disease, and to that end the board is authorized to expend funds in

the employment of such persons or organizations, scientists, or research experts as the

board may deem proper. The boa rd shall be charged with the responsibility for the

collection from official and other sources and for the publication of such statistics and

information as may be useful and necessary for the performance of its duties, and upon

such other matters as such municipalities by ordinance and said county, by resolution of

the fiscal court, respectively, or the Cabinet for Health and Family Services of Kentucky,

by regulation, place under the control of said board. The board may charge reasonable

fees to sewage tr eatment plant operators for the regulation and inspection of sewage

treatment plants to be paid within twelve (12) months from the time of regulation and

inspection.