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§ A701 BROOME COUNTY ADMINISTRATIVE CODE § A703
ARTICLE VII
Department of Health
[Amended 4-3-1979 by L.L. No. 6-1979]
§ A701. County Health District and Department of Health; Commissioner or Director;
appointment; qualifications.
The County shall continue to be a County Health District. There shall be a Department of
Health headed by a Commissioner or a Director. The method of choosing the Commissioner
or the Director, as well as his qualifications, shall be provided in § C701 of Article VII of the
Charter.
§ A702. Powers and duties.
The Commissioner or Director of Health shall have all the powers and perform all the duties
conferred or imposed upon County or Part-County Health Commissioners and/or County or
Part-County Boards of Health by law, except as may otherwise be provided by the Charter
and this Code. He shall have and exercise all the powers and duties and shall be subject to all
the obligations and liabilities heretofore or hereafter lawfully granted or imposed by the
Charter, Code, local law, ordinance or resolution of the County Legislature, order or direction
of the County Executive or any applicable provision of any act of the State Legislature not
inconsistent with the Charter and Code. In addition thereto, he shall perform such other and
related duties as shall be required or delegated to him by the County Executive or County
Legislature. On or before March 1 in each year, the Commissioner or Director of Health shall
make an annual report for the immediately preceding calendar year covering generally the
work of his Department. The Commissioner or Director shall make such other reports at such
times as may be required by the County Legislature, County Executive, New York State
Department of Health or any other applicable law. Copies of all reports shall be filed with the
Clerk of the County Legislature and the County Executive.
§ A703. Health Advisory Board.
There shall be a Health Advisory Board, consisting of the Chairman of the County
Legislature, the Chairman of the Public Health Committee of the County Legislature and nine
other members, all of whom shall be residents of Broome County, and three of whom shall be
physicians duly licensed to practice in the State of New York. The Broome County Medical
Society may submit to the County Executive a list of physicians from which the County
Executive may choose the physician members of the Health Advisory Board.
Except for the Chairman of the County Legislature and the Chairman of the Public Health
Committee, members of the Health Advisory Board shall be appointed by the County
Executive and subject to confirmation by the County Legislature for a term of four years,
except that of those first appointed, three for two-year terms; three for three-year terms and
three for four-year terms. If the County Executive fails to fill a vacancy on the Health
Advisory Board within 60 days after a vacancy occurs, the County Legislature shall proceed
to fill such vacancy in the same manner as provided herein. Whenever a vacancy occurs by
expiration of term, a member may continue his office for a period not to exceed 60 days
unless an appointment is made thereto.
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