KRS 212.627: Urban-county department of health and board of health -- Establishment -

- Jurisdiction -- Powers and duties.

In each county of the Commonwealth containing any city with a population of over

100,000 at the time of merger creating an urban -county form o f government, there is

hereby established an urban -county department of health which shall be known as the

"(name of city) - (name of county) Urban-County Department of Health." The department

when established shall be governed by a board which shall be a body politic and

corporate, and shall be known as the "(name of city) - (name of county) Urban -County

Board of Health." The board shall have jurisdiction throughout the county, including

within all municipalities of the county with respect to and in accord ance with the

provisions of KRS 212.626 to 212.639. The board may, in its corporate name, sue and be

sued, contract and be contracted with, acquire real, personal and mixed property by deed,

purchase, gift, devise, lease or otherwise, and mortgage, pledge, sell, convey or otherwise

dispose of same. The board may make appropriate rules and regulations and do all things

reasonable or necessary in order to carry out the work and to properly perform the duties

intended as required under the provisions of KRS 21 2.626 to 212.639. The title to all

property acquired for purposes of KRS 212.626 to 212.639 whether real, personal and

mixed, or whether acquired by deed, gift, purchase, devise, or otherwise, shall vest in the

board and shall be exempt from taxation. When and after the board and department

established under the provisions of KRS 212.626 to 212.639 are organized and except as

otherwise provided herein, the board and department shall succeed to and be vested with

all of the functions, obligations, powers, duties and privileges now being exercised by the

city-county board of health and city -county department of health, and thereupon the city -

county board of health and city -county department of health shall cease to exist and all

laws and amendments to any such laws, relating to and governing the city -county board

of health and city -county department of health, in conflict with the provisions of KRS

212.626 to 212.639 shall, to the extent of such conflict, stand and be repealed.