§ 341 — County or part-county health districts; local health districts within; villages in two counties

§ 341. County or part-county health districts; local health districts\nwithin; villages in two counties. 1. Local health districts within the\narea of any county or part-county health district shall continue to\nexist as subdivisions of such health district, and the local boards of\nhealth shall continue to exist and to retain their powers and duties\nsubject to the rulings and regulations of the board of health of the\ncounty or part-county health district, and may continue to appoint local\nhealth officers for such local health districts as provided by law.\n 2. If a county or part-county health district as heretofore or\nhereafter established by a board of supervisors shall by its terms\ncontain a portion of any village which lies partly within said county\nand partly within some other county, said village, without regard to\npopulation, shall continue its local district organization in the same\nmanner as before, in which case the health officer of the village acting\nwithin the county or part-county health district shall be a deputy of\nthe county health commissioner with reference to acts performed within\nsaid county or part-county health district. Provided, however, said\nvillage may, by resolution of the village board, limit the local health\ndistrict to that portion of the village lying in the county outside of\nthe county or part-county health district, in which event the\ncompensation of the local health officer shall be based upon the number\nof inhabitants in the reduced village health district, and the residents\nof that portion of the village lying within the county or part-county\nhealth district shall not be taxed by the village for the maintenance of\nsuch reduced local health district.\n 3. The governing authorities of any city, village or town or the\ngoverning authorities of the cities, villages or towns within a\nconsolidated health district may abolish such city, village, town or\nconsolidated health district as a local health district, whereupon all\nthe powers and duties of the local board of health of such local health\ndistrict shall devolve upon the board of health of the county or\npart-county health district and all the powers and duties of the local\nhealth officer of such local health district shall devolve upon the\ncounty health commissioner.\n 4. The governing authorities of a town or village, the local board of\nhealth of which has been abolished pursuant to the provisions of this\nsection, when authorized by a proposition submitted and adopted in the\nmanner provided by law, may employ a public health nurse or public\nhealth nurses, qualified as provided in the sanitary code, and make the\nnecessary appropriation therefor. Such public health nurse, or nurses,\nshall work under the direction of the county health commissioner.\n 5. Where the local health district within the area of any county or\npart county health district is a town in which there are one or more\nincorporated villages and the local board of health is a town board,\nappropriations made by the town board for the purposes stated in\nsubdivisions one and four of this section shall be a charge upon the\ntaxable property of that part of the town outside of any incorporated\nvillage.\n If a proposition is submitted as provided in subdivision four of this\nsection for the employment of public health nurses in a town in which\nthere are incorporated villages which constitute a local health\ndistrict, only such persons who are electors and owners of record of\nproperty in the town outside of incorporated villages shall be entitled\nto vote upon such a proposition.\n