KRS 223.020: Registered environmental health specialist or sanitarian examining

committee.

(1) The secretary shall appoint a registered environmental health specialist or a

sanitarian examining committee consisting of five (5) members. The secretary of

the Cabinet for Health and Family Services shall be an ex officio member. The

other four (4) members shall be environmental health specialists or sanitarians who

are registered under this chapter. The appointed members shall serve for terms of

two (2) years and until their successors are appointed and qualify, except that when

initial appointments are made under the provisions of this chapter, two (2) members'

terms shall be for only one (1) year. Thereafter all appointments shall be for a

period of two (2) years.

(2) The examining committee shall conduct, or cause to be conducted, examinations of

applicants pursuant to minimum standards and qualifications established by the

secretary. The examining committee shall act in an advisory capacity to the

secretary in establishing such minimum standards and qualifications.