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212.040 Establishment for one county by fiscal court -- Appropriation.

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212.040 Establishment for one county by fiscal court -- Appropriation. The fiscal court of any county may by resolution at a regular session declare that the <br>county shall be a district for the creation, establishment and maintenance of a county <br>health department. Upon the resolution being passed, the fiscal court shall at once, out of <br>the funds of the county, appropriate a sufficient amount for the creation, establishment <br>and maintenance of the county health department. If there are not sufficient funds on hand <br>for such appropriation at the time the resolution is adopted, the fiscal court shall, at the <br>next succeeding county levy, make a levy sufficient to produce the necessary amount of <br>tax for the creation, establishment and maintenance of the county health department. The <br>fiscal court shall annually thereafter make a levy sufficient to pay the annual expense of <br>maintenance of the county health department. After the resolution creating the department <br>is entered, any twenty (20) legal voters may, within thirty (30) days, file with the county <br>judge/executive a petition signed by them requesting that the establishment of the county <br>health department be done by the vote of the people of the county as provided in KRS <br>212.080, in which case it shall be so done. Effective: October 1, 1942 <br>History: Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 2054a-2.