§ 16-35-1-9 — Administrative personnel; cooperative agreements with health authorities of municipal corporations or health districts

Indiana § 16-35-1-9

• Jurisdiction: Indiana
• Title 16: HEALTH
• Art. 35: CHILDREN'S HEALTH
• Ch. 1: Maternal and Child Health Services

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(a) The regular employees of the state
department may be assigned to the performance of the duties
prescribed in this chapter either on a full-time or part-time basis.
Additional qualified personnel may be employed as the state
department determines is necessary to administer this chapter.
(b) The state department may enter into a cooperative agreement
with the health authorities of a municipal corporation or health district
under which assistants, investigators, and employees may be appointed
who are necessary and qualified to cooperate with the state department
and the federal government in conducting the health work in the
municipal corporation or health district, in conformity with the
following:
(1) This chapter and rules adopted under this chapter.
(2) The federal Social Security Act and regulations adopted under
the federal Social Security Act.
(c) The state department:
(1) may make allotments from the state department's money to a
municipal corporation or health district; and
(2) shall cause to be deposited in a separate health fund of the
municipal corporation or the health district an amount not to
exceed an allotment.
(d) Agreements may be made under which:
(1) at least two (2) municipal corporations or health districts may
cooperate with the state department; and
(2) the expenses incurred in conducting health work shall be
allocated between or among the municipal corporations and
health districts and the state department;
as may be mutually agreed upon. Appointments are subject to the
approval of the state department. The state department may pay a
proportionate share of the salaries and expenses of assistants,
investigators, and employees as may be agreed upon by the state
department and the health authorities of a municipal corporation or
health district as prescribed in cooperative agreements.
[Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-6.5-1-9.]

Legislative History

As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.18.